Some subscribers to EdResMeth might be interested in a discussion list post "Re: Scientific American Article on Educational Research and Evaluation" [Hake (2014)]. The abstract reads:
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ABSTRACT: EvalTalk's David Colton wrote at <http://bit.ly/1vuEiDu> (my inserts at ". . . . . . .[[insert]] . . . . . . . . . "
"A decade ago, the 'American Evaluation Association' . . . . . [[<http://bit.ly/1s1m5Mb>]]. . . . issued a position paper . . . . . .[[(AEA, 2003) at <http://bit.ly/1tgrYsI>, highly critical of ]]. . . . . . . . the U.S. Dept. of Education's (USDE's) decision to award research grants based on methodology, with experimental and quasi experimental designs given funding prior over other approaches . . . . . . .[["experimental" is RCT enthusiasts' code for methodology utilizing "Randomized Control Trails" (RCTs)]]. . . . So I was very interested in an article in this month's 'Scientific American' which describes the results of this process ten years out: 'The Science of Learning' . . . . . . .[[Kantrowitz (2014), re-titled in the online version "Scientists Bring New Rigor to Education Research" and online at <http://bit.ly/1v23502>]]. . . . . . . . ."
In the present post I excerpt and annotate 8 noteworthy passages from Kantrowitz's article dealing with e.g., the RCT debate <http://bit.ly/1vV222A>; the "What Works Clearing House" <http://ies.ed.gov/ncee/wwc/>; the "Institute of Education Sciences" (IES) <http://ies.ed.gov/>; Paulo Blikstein's "FabLab" at Stanford <http://bit.ly/1yIcekw>; teacher evaluation <http://bit.ly/1xm6R6b>, class size <http://bit.ly/1naRX27>; student engagement <http://bit.ly/9484DG>, discovery learning <http://bit.ly/1snHAK3>, Grover Whitehurst <http://bit.ly/RIcEz4>, "Finnish Lessons" <http://bit.ly/JpU9fD>; and "Finnishing Touches" <http://bit.ly/Ixkqa7>.
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Richard Hake, Emeritus Professor of Physics, Indiana University. LINKS TO: Academia <http://bit.ly/a8ixxm>; Articles <http://bit.ly/a6M5y0>; Blog<http://bit.ly/9yGsXh>; Facebook <http://on.fb.me/XI7EKm>; GooglePlus<http://bit.ly/KwZ6mE>; Google Scholar <http://bit.ly/Wz2FP3>; Linked In<http://linkd.in/14uycpW>; Research Gate <http://bit.ly/1fJiSwB>; Socratic Dialogue Inducing (SDI) Labs <http://bit.ly/9nGd3M>; Twitter <http://bit.ly/juvd52>.
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