(DRAFT) Three Contrasting Views in Education Research

Over the past several years, while designing skill assessment tools, I’ve stewed on something that might seem obvious: educational and cognitive psychology are distinct fields. Researchers in these fields often go to different conferences, cite different people in their papers, and sometimes use the same concept in ways foreign to the other field. This may boil down to differences in approach: Cognitive psychologists often use laboratory studies with simple materials (e. ... Read more