Three barriers to more useful education research
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- Many conceptual barriers stand in the way of more useful educational research. This dissertation examines three such barriers. The first intellectual barrier is an unproductive distinction between "scientifically based" research and other forms of educational inquiry—a distinction that, thanks to recent federal acts, now carries the weight of law. The second barrier is a failure to draw meaningful distinctions between "basic" and "applied" educational knowledge. Neither researchers nor federal funding agencies have outlined a clear definition of educational knowledge in these domains, nor have they offered a compelling account of how research aimed at one domain produces knowledge gains in the other, though a connection is frequently implied. And a third barrier is confusion about the relationship between what might be called the "positive" (or descriptive) and the "normative" (or prescriptive) dimensions of educational inquiry. Researchers often exhibit either too much comfort openly incorporating value judgments into research or too little, and the traditional distinction offers scant guidance to researchers wanting to directly engage practical educational problems.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic; electronic resource; remote |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Publication date | 2010 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Associated with | Dolle, Jonathan Robert |
|---|---|
| Associated with | Stanford University, School of Education. |
| Primary advisor | Callan, Eamonn |
| Primary advisor | Phillips, D. C. (Denis Charles), 1938- |
| Thesis advisor | Callan, Eamonn |
| Thesis advisor | Phillips, D. C. (Denis Charles), 1938- |
| Thesis advisor | Longino, Helen E |
| Thesis advisor | Shavelson, Richard J, 1942- |
| Advisor | Longino, Helen E |
| Advisor | Shavelson, Richard J, 1942- |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
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Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Jonathan R. Dolle. |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the School of Education. |
| Thesis | Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 2010. |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2010 by Jonathan Robert Dolle
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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