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5 Ensuring Quality and Impact: A Program to Advance Both Science and Practice
5 Ensuring Quality and Impact: A Program to Advance Both Science and Practice
Pages 142-151
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The committee's six principles can serve as a point of departure for our discussion (National Research Council, 2002b) : -in err · Pose significant questions that can be investigated empirically; Link research to relevant theory; Use methods that permit direct investigation of the question; · Provide a coherent and explicit chain of reasoning; LEARNING AND INSTRUCTION
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However the challenge of conducting research that is responsive to these principles in education is somewhat daunting. The SERP proposal and research agenda provide the specifics with which to put Besh on these skeletal principles of quality research and consider how quality in education research might be effectively supported.
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Moreover, the value of the data collection rises substantially when students are followed over many years. Longitudinal data sets are the workhorses of empirical research in the social sciences.
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First, in the three domains of focus, we describe knowledge bases that provide a theoretical and empirical foundation relevant to each of the framing questions. In each domain the proposed research and development builds on that foundation, and on subject specific theory and knowledge.
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In some cases in which the knowledge base is weak, we suggest observation of practice to support hypothesis generation. In other areas in which curricula have been developed and subjected to preliminary evaluation, we suggest randomized trials in order to determine effectiveness of a curriculum.
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Similarly, if we want to understand the conditions under which an instructional approach improves outcomes, we need to have carefully defined which "conditions" matter. These investments are critical to the quality of the research, and yet they are often shortchanged in poorly funded research steadiest ~See, for example, the discussion of evaluations of curricula funded by the National Science Foundation in Chapter 3.
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The nature of the SERP networks as collaborations among researchers and practitioners will provide a fertile environment for interpretation of findings that draws on different perspectives, knowledge bases, and experiences. · ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ REPLICATE AND GENERALIZE ACROSS STUDIES The Committee on Scientific Principles for Education Research argued that ultimately, scientific knowledge advances when findings are reproduced in a range of times and places and when findings are integrated and synthesized (National Research Council, 2002b)
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And indeed, the SERP report proposes a scientific advisory board with responsibilities for quality monitoring and professional scrutiny of the research program. In addition to a formal review process, the SERP design includes a proposed web site that will provide an opportunity for feedback from a wide audience skeptics included.
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These are critical dimensions of instruction, but if they are the whole of instruction, then understanding will be shallow (National Research Council, 2000)
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Perhaps the greatest squandered resource, however, is the excellent teaching practice that produces demonstrable effects on student achievement and yet remains an anomaly, its lessons for teaching never articulated, studied, or shared. The work we propose here has the potential to substantially improve the knowledge base to support teaching and learning by pursuing answers to questions at the core of teaching practice.
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