Monday, May 16, 2011
The IQs
Today I had to sit for 6 hours learning that kids with "LOW IQ's" can learn to read. BUT it's going to take four years for them to make minimal gains in a set of really idiotic skills that you don't even want your kid to have. The intervention I had to learn about seemed to actually impede kid reading progress. The control group actually made progress at about the same rate as the poor kids who had to sit for 45 minutes each day segmenting phonemes. BRUTAL! If I had a choice, my kid would be in the control group!
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7 comments:
Boo! It seems as though often they forget about the kid (actual person) in these research studies.
Yeah for Ros being home!
N
The research could have been more valid if the methodology of the study hadn't been so flawed!
This just makes me sick.
jw
Yuck. This is terrible. How did you sit there for six hours?
Can we get together before your trip? Dinner???
N
Being in the control group is edgy.
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