{"id":31154,"date":"2012-07-18T18:14:00","date_gmt":"2012-07-18T22:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=31154"},"modified":"2012-07-18T18:16:29","modified_gmt":"2012-07-18T22:16:29","slug":"how-can-you-know-if-its-really-research-based-willingham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2012\/07\/18\/how-can-you-know-if-its-really-research-based-willingham\/","title":{"rendered":"How can you know if it’s *really* “research-based?” [Willingham]"},"content":{"rendered":"

How can you know if it’s *really* “research-based?”<\/strong><\/a> — from Daniel Willingham<\/p>\n

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Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n

\nMy new book, When Can You Trust the Experts: How to Tell Good Science from Bad in Education <\/em>is now available. (There\u2019s a link for a free download of Chapter 1 on this page<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

I wrote the book out of frustration with a particular problem: the word \u201cresearch\u201d has become meaningless in education. Every product is claimed to be research-based. But we all know that can\u2019t be the case. How are teachers and administrators supposed to know which claims are valid?<\/p>\n

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The second half of the book describes the short cut, which consists of four steps:<\/p>\n

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  1. Strip it.<\/strong> Clear away the verbiage and look at the actual claim. What exactly is the claim suggesting a teacher or parent should do, and what outcome is promised?<\/li>\n
  2. Trace it.<\/strong> Who created this idea, and what have others said about it? It’s common to believe something because an authority confirms it, and this is often a reasonable thing to do. I think people rely heavily on credentials when evaluating education research, but I argue that it\u2019s a weak indicator of truth.<\/li>\n
  3. Analyze it.<\/strong> Why are you being asked to believe the claim is true? What evidence is offered, and how does the claim square with your own experience?<\/li>\n
  4. Should I do it? <\/strong>You’re not going to adopt every educational program that is scientifically backed, and it may make sense to adopt one that has not been scientifically evaluated.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    How can you know if it’s *really* “research-based?” — from Daniel Willingham . . Excerpt: My new book, When Can You Trust the Experts: How to Tell Good Science from Bad in Education is now available. (There\u2019s a link for a free download of Chapter 1 on this page.) I wrote the book out of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[343,217],"tags":[737,681,372],"class_list":["post-31154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-research","tag-education","tag-research","tag-scholarly-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31154"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31162,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31154\/revisions\/31162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}