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Posts Tagged ‘research

DORE talk discuss research critique

January 17, 2008

I’ve been having an interesting & rather heated discussion on the DORE forums (I’m ‘psyduck’) about the infamous Reynolds et al (2003) paper which caused resignations of 5 academics from the board of Dyslexia (several of whom are teaching me this year), & particularly the Bishop (2007) critique. I thought I’d link to the whole […]

Why are DORE so bad at research?

January 14, 2008

When I first heard of DORE, I thought they sounded like a good idea. There is not a lot of research into dyspraxia in particular (which I have), so anything that produces good results would be very welcome. The problem is that they keep publishing papers which are a bit rubbish really, with silly mistakes, […]