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Long-form assessment of technology and education. Every substantive claim links to a primary or authoritative source; every article ends with its reference list.
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Paper Mills, Editors, and Systematic Reviews: What a 2025 Fraud-Network Study Teaches About Reading Evidence
A 2025 PNAS study used network analysis to map the editors, authors and brokers behind industrial-scale paper mills. A companion JAMA Netwo…
Growth Mindset in the Classroom: What the Large Trials Show, What They Don't
What the growth mindset evidence actually supports: a weak but real correlation, a modest effect in one large national trial under specific…
Long-Context Windows: What Independent Benchmarks Show Versus What Vendors Claim
Context windows now advertise millions of tokens, but independent benchmarks — RULER, NoLiMa, Lost in the Middle and a newer preprint on mu…
Reproducible, Robust, Replicable: What a 3,900-Claim Audit of Social Science Found
A seven-year DARPA-funded project checked 3,900 social-science claims three ways — reproducing, stress-testing, and replicating them — and …
How People Actually Learn: What the Evidence on Memory, Practice and Assessment Does and Doesn't Show
Retrieval practice, spacing and interleaving are backed by decades of replicated experiments. Growth mindset and formative assessment show …