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Research Design

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

Edsurge

APRIL 1, 2017

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).

Laboratory

Laboratory Failure Education Study

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.

Education

Education Evaluation Testing Lecturing

Teaching Vanguard

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

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

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