The Value of Experiments in Education

Autor/in	Whitehurst, Grover J.
Titel	The Value of Experiments in Education
Quelle	In: Education Finance and Policy, 7 (2012) 2, S.107-123 (17 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1557-3060
DOI	10.1162/EDFP_a_00058
Schlagwörter	Educational Research; Experiments; Research Methodology; Scientific Attitudes; Administrative Policy; Data; State Officials; Local Government; Theory Practice Relationship; Preservice Teacher Education; Science Process Skills; Federal Aid; Context Effect + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Bildungsforschung; Pädagogische Forschung; Erprobung; Research method; Forschungsmethode; Daten; Member of the government; Regierungsmitglied; Gemeindeverwaltung; Theorie-Praxis-Beziehung; Lehramtsstudiengang; Lehrerausbildung
Abstract	One of the major story lines of the growth of civilization is the advance of the experiment. From the food we eat to the diseases we conquer to our understanding of how we think and behave, we have profited enormously from an approach that marries our models of the world with tests of their validity through systematic variation to determine cause and effect. These same tools of thought and action are no less critical to the advance of education than to medicine, agriculture, psychology, or transportation. There has been impressive growth in the use of experimental methods in education over the past decade. As a result, much more is known today about what works and what does not. Future progress will be enhanced by research that better explicates process: linking trials to administrative data; serving the interest of local and state officials in examining the impact of their policies and practices; better preservice training for education practitioners in the logic and value of rigorous research; and more generous federal funding for the research enterprise. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10