Background The reading skills of 16% of children fall below the mean range for their age,
and 5% of children have significant and severe reading problems. Phonics training is one of …

This article reviews research on the achievement outcomes of elementary mathematics
programs; 87 rigorous experimental studies evaluated 66 programs in grades K–5 …

There are a growing number of large-scale educational randomized controlled trials (RCTs).
Considering their expense, it is important to reflect on the effectiveness of this approach. We …

Names: Mercer, Neil, editor.| Wegerif, Rupert, 1959-editor.| Major, Louis,(Louis Christopher),
1985-editor. Title: The Routledge international handbook of research on dialogic …

This chapter looks briefly at how language, specifically dialogic talk, came to influence
theories of learning. It considers a sampling of the evidence on the effects of dialogic …

Background Claims about what improves or harms our health are ubiquitous. People need
to be able to assess the reliability of these claims. We aimed to evaluate an intervention …

This paper provides a Deweyian analysis of Australia's Ethical Understanding General
Capability curriculum documents, which outline a promising moral education curriculum for …

In this article, we describe the development and validation of the Argumentation Rating Tool
(ART), an observational rating scale designed to assess the quality of teacher facilitation …

Many claims about the effects of treatments, though well intentioned, are wrong. Indeed, they
are sometimes deliberately misleading to serve interests other than the well-being of …

Classroom talk or verbal exchanges during lesson time play a central role in students'
disciplinary understanding and intellectual development. It greatly influences not only what …