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How People Learn II
A National Academies consensus report synthesizing research on learning across motivation, context, culture, prior knowledge, and the life span.
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Active learning increases student performance in STEM
A 2014 PNAS meta-analysis comparing active learning with traditional lecturing across undergraduate STEM courses.
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Outcome bias in decision evaluation
Five studies showing that knowledge of an outcome can change how people evaluate the quality of a prior decision even when the decision maker had the same information at the time.
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Reproducibility and Replicability in Science
A National Academies consensus report on how replication, measurement, research design, and uncertainty affect confidence in scientific results.
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IPCC AR6 treatment of uncertainty
The IPCC AR6 framework for communicating confidence from evidence and agreement separately from probabilistic likelihood.
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A scientific approach to entrepreneurial decision making
A randomized controlled trial in startups testing whether explicit hypotheses and rigorous market tests improve entrepreneurial decision making.
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Signaling and Employer Learning with Instruments
An American Economic Review study estimating that returns to schooling in its Norwegian setting reflect both productivity and labor-market signaling.
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Generative AI without guardrails can harm learning
A 2025 PNAS field experiment showing that unrestricted GPT-4 access improved assisted practice performance but reduced later unaided performance, while tutor guardrails largely mitigated the harm.
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AI tutoring outperforms in-class active learning
A 2025 randomized crossover study in introductory college physics reporting higher short-term learning gains and engagement with a carefully scaffolded AI tutor.