Fraudulent Results

Will Thalheimer notes that errors creep into academic assumptions due to teachers creating examples which become accepted as statistical fact, even though they have not been derived from experimentation or analysis. His article examines the bogus statistics that have accrued to the theoretical model of "Dale's Cone."

A later (2014) debunking of accretions to the learning pyramid was writting by librarians Candice Benjes-Small and Alyssa Archer -DD

Quick Results vs. Student Exercises

Brian Mathews muses on the tension between ease of obtaining information and developing mastery of the research process .

-DD

Information Visualization

I ran across Dr. Mohamed Taher's blog on Information Visualization. I found his post on "Deconstructing the Learning Pyramid" thought provoking - view the slideshow and note that the research supporting the percentages of student retention cannot be found by the referenced source.

-DD