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This ERRR podcast with Daniel Willingham is very much in line with a theme of the ERRR over 2018, and that theme is ‘evaluating research evidence’. In this episode we discuss his 2012 book ‘When Can You Trust the Experts’, How to tell good science from bad in education research. I won’t give away too much just now but I know that you’re going to love to hear about the creative ways that Dan encourages readers to approach, and critique, educational research when they’re trying to separate fact from fiction.
Daniel has a PhD in Cognitive Psychology from Harvard University and is currently Professor of Psychology at the Univsity of Virginia. His current research focuses on the application of cognitive psychology to k-16 education and he’s written a whole host of fantastic books on this topic, and more. He’s the author of my equal favourite education book ‘Why Don’t Students Like School?’, and has also written ‘Raising Kids Who Read, and ‘The Reading Mind’. He also authors the ‘Ask the Cognitive Scientist’ column for the American Educator magazine and has churned out some fantastic articles through that column that I absolutely love.
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My PDF summary of Dan's book can be found here.
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