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"How obvious": Personal reflections on the database of educational psychology and effective teaching research. created by Gregory C. R. Yates

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: An international journal of experimental educational psychology ; Volume 25, number 6,Oxfordshire: Taylor and Francis, 2005Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISSN:
  • 0144-3410
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • LB1051 EDU
Online resources: Abstract: From a personal perspective, the author reflects upon the notion that many research findings appear falsely to possess the quality of being "obvious". Specific attention is given to the topic of teacher effectiveness. The feeling that findings are obvious can be related to the following: the false consensus effect, self-serving cognition, hindsight bias, base-rate neglect, illusory correlations, and the fundamental computational bias. The author suggests ways in which teacher effectiveness findings can be used, and notes how one "obvious" notion, that discovery learning produces more meaningful learning than direct instruction, is a fundamental misconception.
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Journal Article Journal Article Main Library - Special Collections LB1051 EDU (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Vol. 25, no.6 (pages681-700) Not for loan For in house use only

From a personal perspective, the author reflects upon the notion that many research findings appear falsely to possess the quality of being "obvious". Specific attention is given to the topic of teacher effectiveness. The feeling that findings are obvious can be related to the following: the false consensus effect, self-serving cognition, hindsight bias, base-rate neglect, illusory correlations, and the fundamental computational bias. The author suggests ways in which teacher effectiveness findings can be used, and notes how one "obvious" notion, that discovery learning produces more meaningful learning than direct instruction, is a fundamental misconception.

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