{"id":1307,"date":"2008-04-27T10:08:03","date_gmt":"2008-04-27T14:08:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shermandorn.com\/wordpress\/?p=1307"},"modified":"2008-04-27T10:08:03","modified_gmt":"2008-04-27T14:08:03","slug":"kudos-to-corey-tomatoes-for-ny-times-reporter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/?p=1307","title":{"rendered":"Kudos to Corey; tomatoes for NY Times reporter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Corey Bower gets this week&#8217;s award for careful reading with his blog entry, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edpolicythoughts.com\/2008\/04\/limitations-of-research-and-headlines.html\">Limitations of Research and the Headlines that Ignore Them<\/a>. He went beyond the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/04\/25\/science\/25math.html?ex=1366862400&amp;amp;en=f77a801028348734&amp;amp;ei=5124&amp;amp;partner=permalink&amp;amp;exprod=permalink\">New York Times article<\/a> on a recent study and read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencemag.org.proxy.usf.edu\/cgi\/content\/full\/320\/5875\/454\">the article<\/a>. Something that reporter Kenneth Chang downplayed is the setting: college students.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Our findings suggest that giving <b>college students<\/b> multiple concrete examples may not be the most efficient means of promoting transfer of knowledge. [emphasis added]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Chang was lazy in one other way: he accepted at face value (or misinterpreted) the researchers&#8217; claims that there is no solid research on manipulatives for K-12 students: &#8220;Dr. Kaminski said even the effectiveness of using blocks and other &#8216;manipulatives,&#8217; which have become more pervasive in preschool and kindergarten, remained untested.&#8221; But there <b>is<\/b> a 1989 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jstor.org\/pss\/749423\">Evelyn Sowell meta-analysis<\/a> on manipulatives in math in K-12 (JSTOR $). Also see a more recent meta-analysis by Evelyn Koresbergen, <a href=\"http:\/\/rse.sagepub.com\/cgi\/content\/abstract\/24\/2\/97\">Mathematics Interventions for Children with Special Educational Needs<\/a> ($).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Corey Bower gets this week&#8217;s award for careful reading with his blog entry, Limitations of Research and the Headlines that Ignore Them. He went beyond the New York Times article on a recent study and read the article. Something that reporter Kenneth Chang downplayed is the setting: college students. Our findings suggest that giving college [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education-policy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pag0MB-l5","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1307\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}