An Educational Experiment Designed to Answer the Questions
Author : Orson Smith
Publisher :
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 35,55 MB
Release : 1926
Category : Audio-visual education
ISBN :
Scientific Research in Education
Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 37,6 MB
Release : 2002-03-28
Category : Education
ISBN : 0309133092
Book Description
Researchers, historians, and philosophers of science have debated the nature of scientific research in education for more than 100 years. Recent enthusiasm for "evidence-based" policy and practice in educationâ€"now codified in the federal law that authorizes the bulk of elementary and secondary education programsâ€"have brought a new sense of urgency to understanding the ways in which the basic tenets of science manifest in the study of teaching, learning, and schooling. Scientific Research in Education describes the similarities and differences between scientific inquiry in education and scientific inquiry in other fields and disciplines and provides a number of examples to illustrate these ideas. Its main argument is that all scientific endeavors share a common set of principles, and that each fieldâ€"including education researchâ€"develops a specialization that accounts for the particulars of what is being studied. The book also provides suggestions for how the federal government can best support high-quality scientific research in education.
Research Development Seminar in the Teaching of English
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 48,12 MB
Release : 1963
Category : Education
ISBN :
Book Description
Methods Matter
Author : Richard J. Murnane
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 47,74 MB
Release : 2010-09-17
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0199890153
Book Description
Educational policy-makers around the world constantly make decisions about how to use scarce resources to improve the education of children. Unfortunately, their decisions are rarely informed by evidence on the consequences of these initiatives in other settings. Nor are decisions typically accompanied by well-formulated plans to evaluate their causal impacts. As a result, knowledge about what works in different situations has been very slow to accumulate. Over the last several decades, advances in research methodology, administrative record keeping, and statistical software have dramatically increased the potential for researchers to conduct compelling evaluations of the causal impacts of educational interventions, and the number of well-designed studies is growing. Written in clear, concise prose, Methods Matter: Improving Causal Inference in Educational and Social Science Research offers essential guidance for those who evaluate educational policies. Using numerous examples of high-quality studies that have evaluated the causal impacts of important educational interventions, the authors go beyond the simple presentation of new analytical methods to discuss the controversies surrounding each study, and provide heuristic explanations that are also broadly accessible. Murnane and Willett offer strong methodological insights on causal inference, while also examining the consequences of a wide variety of educational policies implemented in the U.S. and abroad. Representing a unique contribution to the literature surrounding educational research, this landmark text will be invaluable for students and researchers in education and public policy, as well as those interested in social science.
Using Interactive Digital Narrative in Science and Health Education
Author : R. Lyle Skains
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 135 pages
File Size : 45,43 MB
Release : 2021-05-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1839097620
Book Description
This book offers insight and lessons learned from two pilot studies which used interactive digital narrative (IDN) as educational interventions to effect positive change regarding social issues, looking into interdisciplinary approaches to research and education methods, combining arts and science methodologies and science communication.
MEASUREMENT, INSTRUMENTATION AND EXPERIMENT DESIGN IN PHYSICS AND ENGINEERING
Author : MICHAEL SAYER
Publisher : PHI Learning Pvt. Ltd.
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 10,84 MB
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 8120312694
Book Description
This book is designed to be used at the advanced undergraduate and introductory graduate level in physics, applied physics and engineering physics. The objectives are to demonstrate the principles of experimental practice in physics and physics related engineering. The text shows how measurement, experiment design, signal processing and modern instru-mentation can be used most effectively. The emphasis is to review techniques in important areas of application so that a reader develops his or her own insight and knowledge to work with any instrument and its manual. Questions are provided throughout to assist the student towards this end. Laboratory practice in temperature measurement, optics, vacuum practice, electrical measurements and nuclear instrumentation is covered in detail.A Solution Manual will be provided for the instructors.
Empirical Methods for Evaluating Educational Interventions
Author : Gary D. Phye
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 45,56 MB
Release : 2005-04-22
Category : Education
ISBN : 0080455239
Book Description
New US government requirements state that federally funded grants and school programs must prove that they are based on scientifically proved improvements in teaching and learning. All new grants must show they are based on scientifically sound research to be funded, and budgets to schools must likewise show that they are based on scientifically sound research. However, the movement in education over the past several years has been toward qualitative rather than quantitative measures. The new legislation comes at a time when researchers are ill trained to measure results or even to frame questions in an empirical way, and when school administrators and teachers are no longer remember or were never trained to prove statistically that their programs are effective.Experimental Methods for Evaluating Educational Interventions is a tutorial on what it means to frame a question in an empirical manner, how one needs to test that a method works, what statistics one uses to measure effectiveness, and how to document these findings in a way so as to be compliant with new empirically based requirements. The book is simplistic enough to be accessible to those teaching and administrative educational professionals long out of schooling, but comprehensive and sophisticated enough to be of use to researchers who know experimental design and statistics but don't know how to use what they know to write acceptable grant proposals or to get governmental funding for their programs.* Provides an overview to interpreting empirical data in education* Reviews data analysis techniques: use and interpretation* Discusses research on learning, instruction, and curriculum* Explores importance of showing progress as well as cause and effect* Identifies obstacles to applying research into practice*Examines policy development for states, nations, and countries
Learning, Design, and Technology
Author : J. Michael Spector
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 4144 pages
File Size : 34,38 MB
Release : 2023-11-15
Category : Education
ISBN : 3319174614
Book Description
The multiple, related fields encompassed by this Major Reference Work represent a convergence of issues and topics germane to the rapidly changing segments of knowledge and practice in educational communications and technology at all levels and around the globe. There is no other comparable work that is designed not only to gather vital, current, and evolving information and understandings in these knowledge segments but also to be updated on a continuing basis in order to keep pace with the rapid changes taking place in the relevant fields. The Handbook is composed of substantive (5,000 to 15,000 words), peer-reviewed entries that examine and explicate seminal facets of learning theory, research, and practice. It provides a broad range of relevant topics, including significant developments as well as innovative uses of technology that promote learning, performance, and instruction. This work is aimed at researchers, designers, developers, instructors, and other professional practitioners.
Experimental Design. ( English Edition)
Author : Khalid Khamis Alghamdi
Publisher :
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 43,18 MB
Release : 2019-10-04
Category :
ISBN : 9781696344661
Book Description
The aim of the experimental design is to answer specific questions, in order to determine which questions a particular experiment can answer, we need to know what was tested and what was measured during the experiment. We hold all other variables constant and change only what we want to test and measure. I will leave all the experiences without an answer because I haven't tried them. It is just ideas and training for you dear reader on scientific thinking and the results should not be specific and known in advance, but it is scientific honesty to be as it happened and not as we want.
Planning and Executing Credible Experiments
Author : Robert J. Moffat
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 45,49 MB
Release : 2021-01-19
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 1119532876
Book Description
Covers experiment planning, execution, analysis, and reporting This single-source resource guides readers in planning and conducting credible experiments for engineering, science, industrial processes, agriculture, and business. The text takes experimenters all the way through conducting a high-impact experiment, from initial conception, through execution of the experiment, to a defensible final report. It prepares the reader to anticipate the choices faced during each stage. Filled with real-world examples from engineering science and industry, Planning and Executing Credible Experiments: A Guidebook for Engineering, Science, Industrial Processes, Agriculture, and Business offers chapters that challenge experimenters at each stage of planning and execution and emphasizes uncertainty analysis as a design tool in addition to its role for reporting results. Tested over decades at Stanford University and internationally, the text employs two powerful, free, open-source software tools: GOSSET to optimize experiment design, and R for statistical computing and graphics. A website accompanies the text, providing additional resources and software downloads. A comprehensive guide to experiment planning, execution, and analysis Leads from initial conception, through the experiment’s launch, to final report Prepares the reader to anticipate the choices faced throughout an experiment Hones the motivating question Employs principles and techniques from Design of Experiments (DoE) Selects experiment designs to obtain the most information from fewer experimental runs Offers chapters that propose questions that an experimenter will need to ask and answer during each stage of planning and execution Demonstrates how uncertainty analysis guides and strengthens each stage Includes examples from real-life industrial experiments Accompanied by a website hosting open-source software Planning and Executing Credible Experiments is an excellent resource for graduates and senior undergraduates—as well as professionals—across a wide variety of engineering disciplines.
