News of evaluating commercial educational software in the US

[Cherniavsky, John C.]

At AERA Russ Whitehurst presented the results of the study. You should look at the original study on the ED Web Page for IES - there are some interesting features.

The results are discouraging, but you have to look carefully at the software being studied - mainly tutoring programs - and look carefully at the study design. Whitehurst stated that the study was bullet-proof and couldn't be challenged. I'm not convinced without getting access to a lot more detail.

-----Original Message-----
From: discussion-bounces at g1to1.org on behalf of Nicolas Balacheff
Sent: Sat 4/14/2007 11:42 AM
To: Tak-Wai Chan; discussion at g1to1.org
Subject: Re: News of evaluating commercial educational software in the  US
 
At 10:07 07/04/2007, Tak-Wai Chan wrote:
>  Hi,
>
>A colleague sent me this:
>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/04/AR2007040402715.html 
>

Dear Tak Wai, and G1:1 colleagues
it took me a while to react, but in the end I did
look at http://www.noe-kaleidoscope.org/people/balacheff/blog/
I think that report is less terrible than the first reading of the WP 
article suggest
the main problem is that such a study can be manipulated
The only way I see: strengthen the scientific character of what we do
Best
Nicolas 

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