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Informationen zum Autor By R. Barker Bausell Klappentext This book poses and ultimately answers the question of whether the public schools would have been affected if no educational research had been conducted during this century. Zusammenfassung This book poses and ultimately answers the question of whether the public schools would have been affected if no educational research had been conducted during this century. Inhaltsverzeichnis IntroductionChapter One: Some Examples of Educational Research that Aren'tChapter Two: Contributors to this Sad State of AffairsChapter Three: Four Once Useful Influential Genres That We Probably No Longer Need Genre #1: Classic Learning ResearchGenre #2: Secondary Analyses of Test ScoresGenre #3: Preschool or Extra-School Descriptive/Correlational Educational Studies. Genre #4: School-Based, Descriptive/Observational Studies. Chapter Four: Three Research Genres That Were Never Useful and Should Be Abandoned Research Genre #5: Psychometric research:Research Genre #6: Meta-Analysis: Genre #7: Scale-up experiments.Chapter Five: Three Genres that Could Have Some Potential for Creating a Meaningful ScienceGenre #8: Experiments Conducted under Veridical Schooling Conditions.Genre #9: Natural Experiments (Evaluations) Conducted within Schools.Genre #10: Experiments Conducted in Schools under Laboratory ConditionsChapter Six: Genre #11 - Programmatic Educational Research Conducted by a Single Investigator Chapter Seven: Genre #12 - Recent, Well-Designed Genre-Crossing Research ConsideredImportant Enough to Garner Media Attention Final ThoughtsReferences
