Full 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.
Contents
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
