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Reality Is Messy, Labs Aren’t: How to Make Research-Backed Education Work

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For instance, maybe a learning strategy with a large reported effect size will not be most effective in a particular classroom because students are unmotivated or lack necessary prior knowledge. Botanist George Washington Carver took his academic research and translated it into theories that he would test in the fields.

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Why ‘What Works’ Doesn’t: False Positives in Education Research

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It provides little useful information and fails miserably as a method for accumulating knowledge about learning and teaching. For the sake of efficiency and learning gains, edtech companies need to understand the limits of this practice and adopt a more progressive research agenda that yields actionable data on which to build useful products.

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