What We’re Watching: Dan Willingham on Reading Comprehension

In this video, Dan Willingham explains why reading comprehension tests don’t actually test reading comprehension.

This presentation was made at the 2017 Educator Summit hosted by Relay GSE and Character Lab. More videos from the event are available here.

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