ERIC Number: EJ1263613
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Publication Date: 2020-Aug
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Translating Laboratory Evidence into Classroom Practice with Teacher-Led Randomized Controlled Trials--A Perspective and Meta-Analysis
Churches, Richard; Dommett, Eleanor J.; Devonshire, Ian M.; Hall, Robin; Higgins, Steve; Korin, Astrid
Mind, Brain, and Education, v14 n3 p292-302 Aug 2020
We initiated and structured a single program that supervised teachers, some with neuroscience or psychology degrees, to collaborate and explore the effects of science of learning-translated pedagogy. This article reports on the 34 findings from teacher-led randomized controlled trials (RCTs) and replications. Teachers designed trials, looking at areas such as attention, memory, and spaced learning. Overall, positive effects were found over short periods (1-6 weeks; r = 0.15, p < 0.0001 [d = 0.30], N = 2,157). However, retrieval practice (testing as a learning experience) had differential effects mediated by age, approach, and lesson content. Results suggest science of learning-translated pedagogy needs extensive replication to establish how best to use laboratory evidence in classrooms. Multiple planned replication of teacher-led RCTs has potential as an evaluation tool, combining high levels of mundane realism with strong internal validity and the potential to build cost effective large samples for meta-analysis.
Descriptors: Randomized Controlled Trials, Teacher Researchers, Research Design, Attention, Memory, Time Factors (Learning), Retention (Psychology), Replication (Evaluation), Validity, Sampling, Meta Analysis
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Information Analyses; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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