Denise-Marie Ordway

Working papers, preprints and journal articles each have their strengths and weaknesses. As always, use care in selecting research.

Margin of error is how close the match is likely to be between the responses of the people in a poll and those of the general population.

Not sure what ‘standard deviation’ is or why it matters? Here are four key things public servants need to know about this common measure.

To save money and help recruit teachers, many schools are taking Mondays or Fridays off. Scholars are studying how it affects students, teachers and school district budgets.

This roundup of research sheds new light on how the pandemic has impacted kids with ADHD and why some student groups are being over- and underdiagnosed.

Statistical significance is a highly technical, nuanced concept, and policymakers covering research should have a basic understanding of what it represents.

An experiment finds small changes in framing and word choice can elicit significant changes in how science sceptics engage with news of climate change.

What to do when a discussion — even when the goal is civil discourse or idea sharing — explodes into angry arguments.

Prior research on weather and COVID-19 transmission provides inconsistent results. A recent study shows transmission rates rise when temperatures drop or outdoor levels of ultraviolet radiation are high.

Journals can take years to retract unreliable research, and journalists often fail to inform the public when the discoveries they have reported are later determined invalid.

Local newspapers can slow political polarisation by focusing on local issues only on their opinion pages, new research suggests.

Setting up online schools wouldn’t be easy and, according to research, moving from the actual classroom to a virtual classroom can hurt student performance.