Re: Scientific American Article on Educational Research and Evaluation

Some blog followers might be interested in a discussion list post “Re: Scientific American Article on Educational Research and Evaluation” [Hake (2014)]. The abstract reads:

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ABSTRACT: EvalTalk’s David Colton wrote at http://bit.ly/1vuEiDu (my inserts at “. . . . . . .[[insert]] . . . . . . . . . ”:

“A decade ago, the ‘American Evaluation Association’ . . . . . [[http://bit.ly/1s1m5Mb]]. . . . issued a position paper . . . . . .[[(AEA, 2003) at http://bit.ly/1tgrYsI, highly critical of ]]. . . . . . . . the U.S. Dept. of Education’s (USDE’s) decision to award research grants based on methodology, with experimental and quasi experimental designs given funding prior over other approaches . . . . . . .[[“experimental” is RCT enthusiasts’ code for methodology utilizing “Randomized Control Trails” (RCTs)]]. . . . So I was very interested in an article in this month’s Scientific American which describes the results of this process ten years out: ‘The Science of Learning’ . . . . . . .[[Kantrowitz (2014), re-titled in the online version “Scientists Bring New Rigor to Education Research” and online at http://bit.ly/1v23502]]. . . . . . . . .”

In the present post I excerpt and annotate 8 noteworthy passages from Kantrowitz’s article dealing with e.g., the RCT debate http://bit.ly/1vV222A; the “What Works Clearing House” http://ies.ed.gov/ncee/wwc/; the “Institute of Education Sciences” (IES) http://ies.ed.gov/; Paulo Blikstein's “FabLab” at Stanford http://bit.ly/1yIcekw; teacher evaluation http://bit.ly/1xm6R6b, class size http://bit.ly/1naRX27; student engagement http://bit.ly/9484DG, discovery learning http://bit.ly/1snHAK3, Grover Whitehurst http://bit.ly/RIcEz4, “Finnish Lessons” http://bit.ly/JpU9fD; and “Finnishing Touches” http://bit.ly/Ixkqa7.
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Richard Hake, Emeritus Professor of Physics, Indiana University; LINKS TO: Academia http://bit.ly/a8ixxm; Articles http://bit.ly/a6M5y0; Blog http://bit.ly/9yGsXh; Facebook http://on.fb.me/XI7EKm; GooglePlus http://bit.ly/KwZ6mE; Google Scholar http://bit.ly/Wz2FP3; Linked In http://linkd.in/14uycpW; Research Gate http://bit.ly/1fJiSwB; Socratic Dialogue Inducing (SDI) Labs http://bit.ly/9nGd3M; Twitter http://bit.ly/juvd52.

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Hake, R.R. 2014, “Re: Scientific American Article on Educational Research and Evaluation," online on the OPEN! AERA-L archives at http://bit.ly/1smsIKA. The abstract and link to the complete post are being transmitted to several discussion lists.

Bernstein’s Review of Sahlberg’s "Finnish Lessons" #2

Some blog followers might be interested in a recent discussion-list post “Bernstein’s Review of Sahlberg’s Finnish Lessons #2 ” [Hake (2012)]. The abstract reads:

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ABSTRACT: In response to my post “Finnishing Touches” at http://bit.ly/Ixkqa7, education guru Kenneth Bernstein http://huff.to/gAtYnU (aka “teacherken”) pointed out in an EDDRA2 post that he had reviewed Sahlberg’s Finnish Lessons http://bit.ly/JpU9fD in a Daily Kos article at http://bit.ly/IqrByq. Bernstein ends his knowledgeable review by quoting Sahlberg:

“As a countervailing force against the global educational reform movement driving school systems around the world, the Finnish Way reveals that creative curricula, autonomous teachers, courageous leadership, and high performance go together. The Finnish Way furthermore makes plain that collaboration, not conflict, with teachers unions leads to better results. The evidence is clear and so should be the road ahead.”
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Richard Hake, Emeritus Professor of Physics, Indiana University
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“This book is a wake-up call for the United States. Finland went from mediocre academic results to one of the top performers in the world. And they did it with unions, minimal testing, national collaboration, and elevating teaching to a high-status calling. This is the antidote to the NCLB paralysis.”
Henry M. Levin http://bit.ly/IjS71K, Teachers College, Columbia University


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Hake, R.R. 2012. “Bernstein’s Review of Sahlberg’s Finnish Lessons #2,” online on the OPEN! AERA-L archives at http://bit.ly/JsVsbe. Post of 26 Apr 2012 09:53:00-0700 to AERA-L and Net-Gold. The abstract and link to the complete post are also being transmitted to several discussion lists.