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Podcast: The Reading Instruction Show
Episode: Understanding the Limitations of Data and Research in Educational Research
Description: The thing about research is that it doesn’t prove anything, at least not in the social sciences. There is no single research that conclusively proves anything once and for all about reading instruction. Research may support a hypothesis. It may provide evidence for something, show something, indicate something, or demonstrate something, but in the social sciences, research doesn’t prove things. The results may indicate, implicate, or illustrate, but educational research doesn’t prove things.SoR advocates often claim that there is a “proven science” of reading. But when working with variable human beings interacting in variable s...