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Causation cadge
Note: this post is a sort of mental marker, as I am partway thinking through a particular issue and do not want to lose my place. One of my colleagues, Micki Chi, has divided causal modeling into two sorts, the type with narrative structures and the type without, which she calls emergent and has some evidence […]
Research synthesis requires giving up information
What do we want? Evidence-based change! When do we want it? After peer review! – sign at 2010’s Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear Ten years after ((Okay, about 9-1/2 years.)) his most famous article, Why Most Published Research Findings are False, John Ioannidis has been interviewed by Vox. The interview does not explore Ioannidis’s underlying […]
Zombie stats: “dropout rate” as a case in point
Education has a whole host of statistics that are unreliable, that have been unreliable or unnecessary or off-target for years, and that continue to be created, published, and reported on. “Dropout rate” is one of those. It’s been around for more than forty years, crafted in the late 1960s when there was no way to […]
Origins of the “Dropout Problem”: The NanoMovie (Behind the Lens post)
So, I did this overnight: (Original URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPw63j78NW8) Sordid details: I painstakingly worked for 40 hours to film myself drawing all of the images on the whiteboard we used, and then shrank it down by Hollywood magic. I want to especially thank Joss Whedon for helping with the script. The elephant-piloting-spacecraft scene had to be […]
Two decades after “Origins of the ‘dropout problem'”
A Facebook comment today by Alexander Russo reminded me that this fall is the 20th anniversary of Origins of the “Dropout Problem” ($ or JSTOR’s Register and Read program), published by the History of Education Quarterly. The article came out of the part of my dissertation that asked when, how, and why “dropping out” became […]