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This volume invites contributions from internationally renowned scholars deploying novel concepts and methodologies to grapple with contemporary empirical phenomena in educational research.
List of contents
Chapter 1: Big Data and Even Bigger Consequences; Part 1 Impacts: Randomized Control Trials: League Leader in the Hierarchy of Evidence?; Chapter 2 The Strengths and Shortcomings of Randomized Controlled Trials (RCTs): Reflections from REAP's Experiences in China; Chapter 3 Randomized Control Trials: Limitations for Explaining and Improving Learning Outcomes; Part 2 Patterns: In Search of Patterns: With Enough Data, Do the Numbers Speak for Themselves?; Chapter 4 Intimate Data Infrastructure: Emerging Comparative Methods of Predictive Analytics and Psycho-informatics; Chapter 5 Politicized Data and Spatial Methods: Generating Understanding of Contemporary Educational Policy Environments and Interventions; Chapter 6 Rethinking Cause and Effect: Analyzing Economic Growth and PISA Scores Over a Period of 15 Years; Part 3 Relations:Global Education Policy in Evolving Network Societies; Chapter 7 The Value of Network Analysis for the Study of Global Education Policy: Key Concepts and Methods; Chapter 8 Cartographies of the Digital Governance of Education; Chapter 9 Big Data and New Social Relations in Higher Education: Academia.edu, Google Scholar and ResearchGate; Part 4 Context: Contextualizing "Context"; Chapter 10 Comparing Platforms and the New Value Economy in the Academy; Chapter 11 Rethinking the Concept of "Context" in Comparative Research; Chapter 12 Making and mobilizing contexts in policy and research
About the author
Radhika Gorur is Senior Lecturer, Deakin University, Australia, and a Director of the Laboratory of International Assessment Studies.
Sam Sellar is Reader in Education Studies at Manchester Metropolitan University and a Director of the Laboratory of International Assessment Studies.
Gita Steiner-Khamsi is Professor of Comparative and International Education at Teachers College, Columbia University in New York.
Summary
This volume invites contributions from internationally renowned scholars deploying novel concepts and methodologies to grapple with contemporary empirical phenomena in educational research.
