What If We Took Within-Person Performance Variability Seriously?

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What would happen to education if we take education evidence seriously?

Educational practice and educational research are not aligned with each other. Current educational practice heavily relies on information transmission or content delivery to learners. Yet evidence shows that delivery is only a minor part of learning. To illustrate the directions we might take to find better educational strategies, six areas of educational evidence are briefly reviewed. The flip...

Suppose We Took Evidence- Based Management Seriously: Implications for Reading and Writing Management

We are honored and flattered that AMLE solicited such an interesting and informative set of reviews, and we are appreciative of the opportunity to add our voices to the discussion of Hard Facts, Dangerous Half-Truths, and Total Nonsense: Profiting From Evidence-Based Management. The reviewers raise a number of important issues that, in many instances, have implications far beyond our book. We d...

What if we could prevent heart failure?

a r k a p D a e c o a d i i a c t fi At 40 years of age, American men and women have a 1 in 5 lifetime risk of the development of heart failure (HF); by the latest estimates, there are 5,700,000 people in the United States who already have a diagnosis of the disease. Moreover, by the year 2030, it is predicted that an additional 3 million Americans will have HF, representing an astounding 25% i...

What if we Talked Politics a Little?

Political enunciation remains an enigma as long as it is considered from the standpoint of information transfer. It remains as unintelligible as religious talk. The paper explores the specificty of this regime and especially the strange link it has with the canonical definition of enunciation in linguistics and semiotics. The ‘political circle’ is reconstituted and thus also the reasons why a ‘...