Creating a Useful Science of Education
Society'S Most Important and Challenging Task
1st Edition
Published on 4. October 2017
152 pages
978-1-4758-3818-3 (ISBN)
Description
Bausell provides a restrictive but defensible view of the purpose of educational research which is to produce instructional, curricular, or assessment products rather than seldom read and soon forgotten academic papers.This book poses and answers two questions: (a) whether it is possible for the science of education to develop into a discipline that could constructively impact the education of students and, if so (b) what type of research would be required for this transformation. Three genres of research were identified that possess the potential for impacting school instruction if the end result of this work is an instructional product capable of increasing learning by increased access to instruction or engagement therewith. Finally, specific suggestions are tendered for creating the infrastructure needed to realize this unique vision of what the science of education should be.
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
ISBN-13
978-1-4758-3818-3 (9781475838183)
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Society's Most Important and Challenging Task
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Society's Most Important and Challenging Task
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Person
Dr. R. Barker Bausell was the first educational researcher to demonstrate the learning superiority of both tutoring and small group instruction when the curriculum, teacher differences, instructional time, and student differences were rigorously controlled. He served as a biostatistician, research methodologist, and the Director of Research in two departments within the University of Maryland over a 35+ year career and was the founding editor/editor-in-chief of the peer reviewed, Evaluation and the Health Profession for 33 of those years. He has authored 12 other books including: Conducting Meaningful Experiments: 40 Steps to Becoming a Scientist, Too Simple to Fail: A Case for Educational Change, and Snake Oil Science: The Truth about Complementary and Alternative Medicine.
Content
Introduction
Chapter One: The Importance of Developing Instructional Products
Chapter Two: Digital and Developmental Instructional Research
Chapter Three: Decision Making in Product Development Research
Chapter Four: Chapter Four: Assessment Products that Might Contribute to a Useful Science of Education
Chapter Five: Research that Might Improve Learning despite the Traditional Classroom
Chapter Six: Research Conducted in the Most Important Instructional Environment (And the
Most Difficult in which to Intervene)
Chapter Seven: Curriculum Research
Chapter Eight: A Big Science Experiment that Might Jumpstart the Science's Infrastructure
Concluding Thoughts
References
Chapter One: The Importance of Developing Instructional Products
Chapter Two: Digital and Developmental Instructional Research
Chapter Three: Decision Making in Product Development Research
Chapter Four: Chapter Four: Assessment Products that Might Contribute to a Useful Science of Education
Chapter Five: Research that Might Improve Learning despite the Traditional Classroom
Chapter Six: Research Conducted in the Most Important Instructional Environment (And the
Most Difficult in which to Intervene)
Chapter Seven: Curriculum Research
Chapter Eight: A Big Science Experiment that Might Jumpstart the Science's Infrastructure
Concluding Thoughts
References
