Interesting NBER working paper: how Covid vaccines help fight anxiety
When people think about the side effects of vaccines, they probably think about fever, pain, being tired,… But a new study looked at other secondary effects of vaccination: what is the effect of vaccination on anxiety and depression, the other pandemic happening because of the coronavirus: In this paper, we use data from a national… Read More Interesting NBER working paper: how Covid vaccines help fight anxiety
Another replication crisis victim? Do Gestures Really Facilitate Speech Production?
This is a replication study by Yagmur Deniz Kısa and colleagues that looks at an insight that has been held for decades: people will speak more fluently when they use gestures. Or more concrete: According to an influential version of this proposal, the Lexical Retrieval Hypothesis (LRH), gestures facilitate speech production by helping speakers find… Read More Another replication crisis victim? Do Gestures Really Facilitate Speech Production?
A Fairy Tale That Bears Retelling
Originally posted on Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice:
Once upon a time, there was much unemployment, poverty and homelessness. Leaders tried one thing after another to end these grim conditions. Nothing worked. In the midst of these bad times, however, a small group of educators, upset over what our youth were learning…
This study shows why replication can teach so much in research (Best Evidence in Brief)
If people have heard about replication, it’s often because of the replication crisis in psychology. And do note that replication is less common in educational research, and that’s a pity as replication can teach us so much. Take this example that Marta Pellegrini summarized for Best Evidence in Brief: A study published in Evaluation Review… Read More This study shows why replication can teach so much in research (Best Evidence in Brief)
School can help you to become a better mobster
Yesterday professor Wouter Duyck shared this 2016 study on Twitter and it just made me chuckle: as a member of the mob you’d better go to school! Campaniello et al found in their study that: We estimate the returns to education of Italian–American mobsters using the 1940 Census to be close to 8% per year.… Read More School can help you to become a better mobster
The Long-Run Impacts of Special Education
I found this paper by Briana Ballis and Katelyn Heath first as a working paper via Dan Willingham, but looking a bit further I discovered that the study has now been published in the American Economic Journal. In their study both researchers used a unique policy change that introduced exogenous variation in SE participation in… Read More The Long-Run Impacts of Special Education
Funny on Sunday: Teaching Lord of the Flies
Interesting patterns of brain activity emerge during musical analysis exercises
What better way to start this new year – Happy New Year, btw – than with music? Or better: research about music! Researchers found that students trained to play music from a young age exhibited certain kinds of brain activity more strongly than other students. This is not unreasonable to expect, as well, they use… Read More Interesting patterns of brain activity emerge during musical analysis exercises
See you next year!
It’s time to switch off my computer for a while and to spend some time with my family. It has been a strange year again with luckily a lot of music, meeting interesting people (mostly online) and doing a lot of research. And… preparing the July launch of our new book. These are the five… Read More See you next year!
From experience to meaning... 