Why ‘What Works’ Doesn’t: False Positives in Education Research
Edsurge
FEBRUARY 12, 2017
Assuming a proposed intervention involves students doing virtually anything more cognitively challenging than passively listening to lecturing-as-usual (the typical straw man control in education research), then a researcher is very likely to find a positive difference as long as the sample size is large enough.
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