Onderstaand commentaar publiceerde ik eerder op de Utrechtse Onderwijswetenschappen blog onder de titel: Directe instructie: Game, set and match. Ik heb de tekst ongewijzigd gelaten. In zijn opiniestuk “De mythe van directe instructie” op de blog van Utrechtse Onderwijswetenschappen, bekritiseert professor Rob Martens de methode van directe instructie en haar voorstanders. Martens richt zijn kritiek […]
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Today, in our mythbusting series, we look at ‘scientifically-founded’ claims about differences between the male and the female brains. It’s a recurrent theme in publications about health as well as education, ‘studies show’ followed by some claim about a new remedy to cure all ailments. Caryl Rivers and Rosalind Barnett busted a popular neuromyth about […]
Lees verderDaniel Willingham on the difference between education research and ‘hard’ sciences
Recently, I came across an interesting blog post by Daniel Willingham discussing an article by American physicist and Nobel Prize winner Carl Wieman. In his article Wieman compares the rigor of ‘hard’ science with education science. Quite surprising maybe for some of us, Wieman argues that education research shares many properties with the hard sciences, […]
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2 juli 2019 

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