Science Education & Policy

An Evidence-Based Approach To Science Education (Or: Dr. Hattie, And How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Numbers.)

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Article - Greg Doheny - Apr 26 2011 - 7:38pm

Carl Wieman's Interactive Learning A Success Even In Larger Physics Classes

In 2009, Nobel Laureate Carl Wieman published a series of articles here at Science 2.0 with ways to improve science education (see Why Not Try A Scientific Approach To Science Education?) and one of the ideas he advocated was using clickers and consensus g ...

Article - News Staff - May 12 2011 - 3:07pm

When Smart Kids Fail

Bright people run into two curses in life that others mistake as blessings.  The first is that many tasks come easy to them.  The second is that they can do okay for a long time without experiencing failure or set-backs.  Both of these lead to a life of un ...

Article - Alex "Sandy" Antunes - May 16 2011 - 8:48am

The Ohio State Science Day

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Article - Mark Berman - May 18 2011 - 4:01pm

Should Scientists Be Exempt From Freedom Of Information Requests?

During the ClimateGate scandal, researchers at East Anglia were not found to be manipulating data but were stonewalling Freedom of Information requests, the bedrock of a democratic science society since the work is financed by taxpayers. ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - May 26 2011 - 1:00pm

Complexity And Randomness

Complexity and Randomness This pattern is from System's thinker Gerald Weinberg, and has been extremely helpful to illustrate the difference between complexity and randomness. It is also a nice example of the self-referential methodology of PAC, as t ...

Article - Kees Pieters - Feb 27 2013 - 10:21pm

The Pattern Of Contextual Diminution

The Pattern of Contextual Diminution This pattern is a bit more involved,as it combines a number of other patterns. It also adds to theself-referential nature of PAC, as it describes the dynamics of anepistemological system, such as PAC. MethodologicalStu ...

Article - Kees Pieters - Jun 8 2011 - 11:00am

Complexity And Postmodernism

In my previous post, I defended a 'post-modern' stance in science, as I consider quest for singular concepts to explain all kinds of things to be somewhat outdated. Or, to be more precise, it is rather stupid to consider oneself a 'complexi ...

Article - Kees Pieters - Feb 27 2013 - 10:20pm

Obama's "Gainful Employment" Rules For Colleges And What It Means For Science

You've seen the advertisements on television; schools that market heavily with dubious promises of how wonderful the job market is, but then students who incur student loan debt to get those degrees- loans which are unlimited since the government in t ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jun 14 2011 - 6:21pm

Complexity And Rationality

Now we've covered the relationships with postmodernity in the previous post, (I promise not to bring it up again, but I have recently been accused quite often to be 'almost postmodern', which-being an engineer myself- I find rather absurd) ...

Article - Kees Pieters - Jun 20 2011 - 2:45pm