On 6 Apr 2005, Richard Hake wrote:
Carnine is perhaps the U.S.'s most prominent advocate of Direct
Instruction [see e.g., Carnine (2000)]. Carnine played a leading role
in undermining effective math instruction in California [see, e.g.,
Schoenfeld (2003)], and, I suspect, is now poised to
I wrote
Given some hints in Leibovici's background, my guess is that this is
a deliberate hoax (note its presence in the special Christmas issue
of BMJ) intended to provoke discussion. Yet I don't think he
falsified data. So how did he do it? [editing out an annoying typo in my
own
That's my take.
The basic logic seems to be that since perfect research in education
is impossible (double blind field studies in education are even more
difficult than they are in physics) we can ignore research altogether
and base our practice on whatever fad we favor.
BTW, there's a good
Stephen Black [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
And Paul Smith replied:
Run the randomization over and over
again until you get the results you want? With retroactive prayer,
that'd be pretty easy to do, right?
Well, that would be dishonest, wouldn't it? I think we should be
reluctant
In a TIPS post of 07 Apr 2005, titled Re: Efficient teaching
methods, Stephen Black (2005) wrote [bracketed by lines BBB
. . . .]:
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Well, I don't have world or time or probably expertise enough to go
through all of this myself to see if the
At 11:48 AM -0700 4/7/05, Richard Hake wrote:
I disagree. I think Shoenfeld makes a good case that Carnine played
a leading role in undermining math instruction in California.
You of course have data supporting a causal relationship between
Carnine's behavior and the effectiveness of maths
This is starting to sound like usenet.
Do we really want to do that?
m
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Marc Carter
Baker University Department of Psychology
Assistant Professor, Itinerant Scientist,
Inveterate Skeptic, Former Surfer.
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There were 152 homicides by firearms in Canada in 2002, according to
Tipsters,
A few years ago I used an exercise in class where I had seven
volunteers, six of whom left the room and the seventh stayed in the
room as I read a short story to the class. The seventh person then
called the sixth in and repeated the story, and that person called in
the fifth person,
Paul Smith,
Did you see the latest issue of People magizine? There is a story of an autistic boy who learned to type without his facilitated communicator, on his own, successfully! gulp!
jim
Jim Matiya
Carl Sandburg High School
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