The scientific basis of educational productivity

This volume is not primarily concerned with what students should learn, nor even how they should learn. Rather it concerns how we can discover the best means and conditions for teaching them in school, at home, and in society. Expressed more explicitly, we seek to find out how students can learn eff...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors Subotnik, Rena Faye (Editor), Walberg, Herbert J., 1937- (Editor)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K : Emerald Publishing Limited : IAP-Information Age Pub., [2006]
SeriesResearch in educational productivity.
Subjects
Educational productivity > United States > Congresses.
Education > Research > United States > Congresses.
Education > United States > Evaluation > Congresses.
elektronické knihy
Conference papers and proceedings.
Education > Administration > General.
Educational administration and organization.
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781918116199
DOI10.1108/978-1-60752-519-6
Physical Description1 online resource (312 pages) : illustrations

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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction and overview / Rena F. Subotnik and Herbert J. Walberg
  • Evidence-based reform : experimental and quasi-experimental research considered / Susan J. Paik
  • Scientific formative evaluation : the role of individual learners in generating and predicting successful educational outcomes / T.V. Joe Layng, Greg Stikeleather, and Janet S. Twyman
  • Blending experimental and descriptive research : the case of educating reading teachers / Elizabeth S. Pang and Michael L. Kamil
  • The enhancement of critical thinking : with decades of converging evidence, meta-analyses with large effect sizes, and societal need, would you allow your child to be assigned to a "control" group? / Diane F. Halpern
  • Improving educational productivity : an assessment of extant research / Herbert J. Walberg
  • The scientific basis for the theory of successful intelligence / Robert J. Sternberg
  • Science, politics, and education reform : the national Academies' role in defining and promoting high-quality scientific education research, 2000-2004 / Lisa Towne
  • American Board for Certification of teacher excellence : applying research to develop a standards-based teacher certification program / Kathleen Madigan
  • Evidence-based interventions and practices in school psychology : the scientific basis of the profession
  • Thomas R. Kratochwill
  • The institute of education sciences' what works clearinghouse / Robert Boruch and Rebecca Herman
  • Conclusions and recommendations / Herbert J. Walberg and Rena F. Subotnik.

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