Why ‘What Works’ Doesn’t: False Positives in Education Research
Edsurge
FEBRUARY 12, 2017
If edtech is to help improve education research it will need to kick a bad habit—focusing on whether or not an educational intervention ‘works’. Answering that question through null hypothesis significance testing (NHST), which explores whether an intervention or product has an effect on the average outcome, undermines the ability to make sustained progress in helping students learn.
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