It is important to look at the research results in light of the barometer of influence:
You know it's making an impact from 0.4 to 1.2.
Many of our educational interventions have a low impact of 0.2 to 0.4.
Considering that inordinate amounts of money, resources and time are used to yield an effect size of 0.2, it would be better to simply allow a child to develop normally and the effect would be 0 to 0.2!
Even worse, what about the interventions that have a negative effect? From -0.2 to 0? They actually have a reverse effect on learning! Summer vacation, television and retention are the BIG losers.
With this in mind, consider some of the following findings:
Socrates said, "The unexamined life is not worth living." Through musings, rants, ramblings and observations, I look at the true meaning of critical and creative thinking, and how it is essential to the success of education today. Not paying lip service to it, not using it as the latest marketing buzzword to entice unsuspecting parents looking for the right school for their child, but embedding it into the core of teaching, learning and assessment.
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