Our programmatic approach could earn education research a gold star

The other problem, at least in HE, I can't speak more broadly is that these studies tend to come from people whose concern is main concern pedagogical studies themselves and they ignore the bigger picture known to subject specialists, they say you should do XY or Z because its been shown to be better, but then the expert in PQR who says. no that isn't right here, students need to do things this way in this topic get drowned out by proclamation of a crusade to reform the curriculum or encouraged adoption of a "favoured" model. Once learning decline along with student satisfaction, outcomes etc, the pedagologist has long since departed to a new roost leaving the staff to clean up the mess, and wonder - how did it happen [again?!]