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 - Clear as mudI am amazed at the high praise of this opauely written book. I find I have to read sentences over and over to figure out what the actual point of the sentence is. "Edu-talk" and a prolix writing style (by committee? a camel?) makes this anything but "reader-friendly." Good luck slogging through it. Rating:  - Great knowledge base for those who want to know "how people learn"I'm currently a 1st year student in an ed psych doctoral program. This is the main textbk for a class called "Cognition, Instruction, and the Design of Learning Environments: Introduction to the Learning Sciences." It's written to be more reader-friendly, which is nice --- especially since we are also assigned plenty of other academic journal articles that can be harder to wrap your head around! Great book. The authors are all reputatable folks in the field. It's the perfect starting point for someone like me! Rating: - Well receivedThe faculty here love this book. So much so that we actually give it away to other faculty members every few months. Rating:  - We're doing it all wrongResearch shows that what we know in our hearts is true. What the state forces us to do through testing takes us totally in the opposite direction of what helps children to learn most. Lot's of good insights in this book; I am still reading it. Rating: - How People Learn as an outline for researchThis text is considered to be *the* word in learning by the education folks I've talked with. I am doing research in computational science education and this text is our operational view. If you are engaged in education, especially at the university level where you may not be exposed to pedagogical thinking, this is the one book you need to read. In association with Amazon.com | |