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Guesses and Hype Give Way to Data in Study of Education

Amid a sore lack of data, one federal office is conducting randomized trials of various educational programs to determine which live up to their claims.

http://nyti.ms/15yEy4m


As hard as it is to do in an informal setting, such as a museum, until a large scale, longitudinal studies are put together on its impacts, there will not be good evidence of informal's impacts, of what works and what doesn't.  Accomplishing this task should be a primary goal of visitor research in museums, and it should be conducted in conjunction with more traditional areas of expertise, like medicine.

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