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

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Investigate an intervention not in a single class but across a course sequence. Start with research designed to address the questions and challenges that are most important to educators and learners. Strategic Education Research Partnership is an excellent example of this approach).

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

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If edtech is to help improve education research it will need to kick a bad habit—focusing on whether or not an educational intervention ‘works’. A typical research question in education might be whether average test scores differ for students who use a new math game and those who don’t. How does NHST look in action?

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