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Teaching coding teaches coding: the one clean school RCT gives g=0.47-0.68. Which approach you pick barely matters, and almost every effect size rests on an instrument the developers built.
moderate supportconf: mediumgc: lowDoes teaching programming actually teach programming — and does the method matter? · computer-science · ages 5–18
Near-zero in primary and almost entirely correlational in secondary. The causal base is three small trials; what the homework IS beats how much of it there is.
mixedconf: mediumgc: medium16/1629/48
Homework — effects by age and by dosage · homework · ages 5–18 · structure
No study of homeschooling has a counterfactual — the famous percentile claims are selection all the way down. The honest answer: nobody knows.
insufficientconf: lowgc: high23/2336/48connected:Homeschool socialisationThe parent as instructorSystematic/explicit phonics vs whoMath-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
Not yet assessed for this question · 17
- Does arts education raise academic achievement?
- Chronic absenteeism — does raising attendance raise achievement?
- Physical activity as an input — dose, fitness, and school outcomes
- Does teaching grammar improve children's writing?
- The early home environment — what parents can and cannot causally move
- Homeschool socialisation — the most-asked question, and the least answerable one
- Does teaching movement transfer to cognition, achievement, or lifelong activity?
- Feedback frequency and mental practice in motor learning
- Should Gardner's multiple intelligences be used as a basis for instruction?
- Breakfast, school meals, and micronutrients — what feeding children actually buys
- Placement and mastery diagnosis — deciding what to teach next from evidence of current skill
- Preschool at scale — Head Start, state pre-K, and what universal provision delivers
- School starting age, relative age, and academic redshirting
- Science misconceptions and conceptual change — can naive intuitions be taught away?
- Does sentence combining improve writing?
- Does strategy instruction (SRSD, the writing process) improve writing?
- Early sport specialization, talent selection, and the relative age effect
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