mardi 28 juillet 2015

Can we trust research in education?

I've recently stumbled upon just how bad the academic field of education is doing, so the thread title is another example of Betteridge's law (and completely plagiarized from this blog). Still I was surprised that nary a post about this kind of influential pseudoscience could be found on these (formerly JREF) skeptics forum.

Is anyone around here interested in education research? Has anyone read Hattie's book? And, if so, could anyone explain to me how supposed academics who chastise teachers for not being scientific enough can perform "mega-analyses" without having the decency of consulting with a statistician? The abuse of Cohen's d as some sort of universal measure of effect regardless of the "intervention" and the response assessed is such insane pseudoscience I am truly baffled that it would be qualified as a Holy Grail of educational research.

Also, I should have been taught to write, clear, short sentences, but that is another matter...


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