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Life-skills courses reliably teach the content and rarely change the conduct; behaviour moves only where instruction sits close in time to the decision, and driver education is worse than nothing.
mixedconf: mediumgc: low11/1148/48
Do life-skills courses — money, cooking, driving, health — change what students actually do? · practical · ages 6–18
Narrow reasoning routines are teachable and stay taught for seven months. The far-transfer claim failed its one randomised test: science −0.01, English −0.15, maths −0.11.
no effectconf: mediumgc: lowTeaching students to think scientifically — does it transfer? · science · ages 7–18
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- Algebra timing — acceleration mandates, delay mandates, and readiness-based placement
- Explicit vs reform/constructivist math instruction
- Interleaving (mixing problem types vs blocking)
- Manipulatives and concrete-representational-abstract (CRA) sequences
- Math curriculum choice — how much does the textbook matter?
- Inquiry-based science teaching vs explicit and textbook science teaching
- Science misconceptions and conceptual change — can naive intuitions be taught away?
- Word problems, schema instruction, and the conceptual-vs-procedural question
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