Worked investigations that apply one method to questions from different fields. Each starts from a claim that sounds right, turns it into proof obligations, sets it against competing hypotheses, checks it against sources that could have contradicted it, and records how the belief changed and what would change it again. The method is set out in Thinking in Public; these pages show it at work, including where it overturns or refines the claim it began with.
A programme document says that all teaching on a course must use method X. The method has good evidence behind it: trials, a meta-analysis, a favourable review from a body that people trust. The average effect is…
Design guidance is usually written as rules: do this, avoid that, place the checkpoint here. A rule reads with authority, and the authority is easy to mistake for evidence. This page takes one set of such rules from…
"Students have always been able to cheat" is a reassuring sentence. It also does real argumentative work: it moves a debate away from panic about a new tool and towards the old, harder questions about what assessment is…