When Can You Trust the Experts?, Daniel T. Willingham
When Can You Trust the Experts?, Daniel T. Willingham
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When Can You Trust the Experts?
How to Tell Good Science from Bad in Education

Author: Daniel T. Willingham

Narrator: Daniel T. Willingham

Unabridged: 6 hr 52 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 07/20/2020

Categories: Nonfiction, Education

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included


Synopsis

Each year, teachers, administrators, and parents face a barrage of new education software, games, workbooks, and professional development programs purporting to be based on the latest research. While some of these products are indeed based on solid science, the truth is that the research underlying many others is grossly exaggerated. How can everyday teachers, administrators, and family memberswho dont have years of statistics courses under their beltsseparate the wheat from the chaff and determine which new piece of research is worth adopting? When Can You Trust the Experts? solves this knowledge gap for educators and parents by stressing clear, easy principles that differentiate reliable research from junk science.   ** CONTENTS ** Introduction: What Are You To Believe? PART ONE: WHY WE SO EASILY BELIEVE BAD SCIENCE 1          Why Smart People Believe Dumb Things 2          Science and Belief: A Nervous Romance 3          What Scientists Call Good Science 4          How to Use Science PART TWO: THE SHORT CUT SOLUTION: FOUR STEPS TO EVALUATING NEW SCIENCE 5          Step One: Strip It and Flip It 6          Step Two: Trace It 7          Step Three: Analyze It 8          Step Four: Should I Do It?

About Daniel T. Willingham

Daniel T. Willingham is professor of psychology at the University of Virginia, where he has taught since 1992. He has won multiple department and university teaching awards. His research focuses on the application of cognitive principles to K-16 education, and his work on that subject has appeared in sixteen languages. In 2017 he was appointed by President Obama to serve as a Member of the National Board for Education Sciences.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Erika on October 29, 2013

I love Daniel Willingham's work. He is a cognitive scientist who focuses on education issues. I use his text "Why Don't Students Like School" in one of my undergrad classes b/c it is an engaging way of presenting research on how we learn. His most recent book has the same great writing style but is......more

Goodreads review by Rod on March 07, 2023

Wow!!! My favorite learning scientist—I’ve seen him a few times at conferences in New Orleans but this is the first book of his I’ve done. Beyond expectation, practical, approachable, accessible, realistic, and almost encyclopedic in its claim skepticism and approach to evidence based reform......more