On When — And Whether — To Believe Education Researchers
“When I get an electrician to figure out why the breaker in my living room keeps flipping, I understand she may be more or less skillful in diagnosis and repair than another licensed electrician. What I don’t expect is that she could have wildly different—perhaps completely opposing—ideas about how electricity works and how to wire […]
Willingham Chimes In On The Polarizing Debate About Reading Instruction
Willingham Summarizes What We Know About Reading (2018)
On The Importance Of Knowledge (Via E. D. Hirsch)
“A New Idea To Promote Transfer”: Analogous Thinking
Subjects who invented an analogous problem were more likely to successfully solve the radiation problem compared to subjects not asked to invent a problem… it’s a technique that prompts people to focus attention on the deep structure, just as comparison does.”