di: Another blog picks up meta-analysis

[Kerry Hempenstall]

Yes, I've also seen it at
http://www.educationviews.org/the-effectiveness-of-direct-instruction-curricula-a-meta-analysis-of-a-half-century-of-research/

and at
https://theeconomyofmeaning.com/2018/01/10/this-new-meta-analysis-is-making-the-news-direct-instruction/

and at*
https://edexcellence.net/articles/direct-instruction-the-rodney-dangerfield-of-curriculum
<https://edexcellence.net/articles/direct-instruction-the-rodney-dangerfield-of-curriculum>*

and tweeted by Paul Kirschner (lead author of The Case for Fully Guided
Instruction)
https://twitter.com/p_a_kirschner/status/950667532171694080?lang=en

Paul also tweets, below:

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For another example of misunderstandings of the paper, see
http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2018/01/09/im-not-sure-this-big-meta-analysis-on-direct-instruction-says-what-its-authors-think-it-says/comment-page-1/

On 17 February 2018 at 06:54, Bryan Wickman <bwickman at nifdi.org> wrote:

> A new article referencing the recently released DI meta-analysis can be
> found at: https://thefederalist.com/2018/02/16/research-keeps-
> showing-this-kind-of-teaching-is-very-effective-so-why-wont-
> schools-use-it/#disqus_thread
> <https://thefederalist.com/2018/02/16/research-keeps-showing-this-kind-of-teaching-is-very-effective-so-why-wont-schools-use-it/#disqus_thread>
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> There are a few inaccuracies, the most glaring is the author didn’t
> completely understand what the DI curricula are and aren’t (she included
> Saxon Math), but overall makes pretty good points. It is unfortunate this
> stuff gets reduced to a right/left conservative/liberal narrative in the
> comments.
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Regards,

Kerry

Dr Kerry Hempenstall
Senior Industry Fellow,
School of Education,
RMIT University,
Melbourne Australia
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