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

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Researchers frequently lament how little of even the most robust and replicable educational research permeates actual teaching and studying. If research is to yield real-world solutions, it will take teachers, students, researchers and technologists working together to dabble, invent and test new ideas.

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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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