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How can laboratory research in cognitive and developmental psychology contribute to science education.(and vice versa)?

 

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Needed: large number of specific, but robust, findings

"Once we have dozens or hundreds of randomized or carefully matched experiments going on each year on all aspects of educational practice, we will begin to make steady, irreversible progress" (Robert Slavin, 2002)

"Progress"? For sure.
"Irreversible"? Perhaps.
"Hundreds of studies"? At the least.