Category: causality

causality · Evidence based · Letters and Sounds

More thoughts on cause and effect

John

I wrote about cause and effect on a previous post. Here are some further thoughts. Every teaching approach to literacy used in schools that doesn’t work still probably ends up with about the same 50% of the pupil population being able to read. The practitioners who are trying to teach by these approaches can ALL… Continue reading More thoughts on cause and effect

belief · causality · Evidence based

Cause and effect

John

Two postings ago I wrote that English literacy teaching practices seem to be based on belief systems rather than high quality evidence-based research. This assertion deserves further clarification. One overarching belief that needs tackling is that the achievement of basic literacy skills happens as a result of what is taught in schools. Curiously, out of… Continue reading Cause and effect