Recommended Reading: Realistic Hopes for a Genuine Science of Learning

By O'Neal Spicer. The problem that has traditionally beset learning research has been its essential dependence on the individual teacher, which makes it near impossible to run the kinds of large scale, control group, intervention studies that are par-for-the-course in medicine. Classroom studies invariably end up as studies of the teacher as much as of the students, and often measure the effect of the students' home environment rather than what goes on in the classroom. More...