The Evidence on Teaching

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5 of 88 decisions · 2 collapse at your settings · clear everything

Survives the gold standard Independent, durable, rigorous The debunked shelf Cheap wins For parents at home Famous numbers, deflated Where we admit ignorance The terrain

evidenceall drop D A–B A only

evaluatorany no dev-led independent

durabilityany follow-up ≥1yr ≥2yr

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Your situation · from the applicability layer — absence means “not yet assessed,” never “doesn’t apply”

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Unassisted discovery loses to explicit teaching; well-scaffolded guided discovery beats both. The operative variable is guidance, not ideology.

moderate supportconf: mediumgc: lowinsufficient at your settings

1/1315/48connected:Worked examples (studying solution Explicit vs reform/constructivist Science content sequencing Inquiry-based science teaching vs +1

Explicit instruction vs discovery/inquiry — how much guidance? · instruction-style · ages 4–18 · method

Novices learn faster studying solutions than solving problems — then the effect reverses with expertise. Use worked examples early; fade them.

moderate supportconf: mediumgc: low

2/67/48connected:Explicit instruction vs discovery/Word problems, schema instruction,

Worked examples (studying solutions vs solving problems) · instruction-style · ages 10–18 · method

What parents are asked to DO is the whole effect: tutoring a skill d≈1.15, listening to reading 0.51, reading aloud ~0.18 — same parent, same child. All deflate under better designs.

mixedconf: mediumgc: medium

10/3336/48connected:Homeschool socialisation Does homeschooling raise achieveme The early home environment Tutoring

The parent as instructor — what survives when the person teaching is the person who raised the child · homeschool · ages 4–18 · method

No study of homeschooling has a counterfactual — the famous percentile claims are selection all the way down. The honest answer: nobody knows.

insufficientconf: lowgc: high

3/2336/48connected:Homeschool socialisation The parent as instructor Systematic/explicit phonics vs who Math-fact fluency and timed practi

Does homeschooling raise achievement and attainment, or does it select the children who would have done well anyway? · homeschool · ages 5–18 · structure

Homeschoolers get plenty of social contact but measurably fewer, closer peer ties; whether that helps or harms has never been causally tested.

insufficientconf: lowgc: highinsufficient at your settings

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Homeschool socialisation — the most-asked question, and the least answerable one · homeschool · ages 6–18 · structure

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