Scientific Research in Education
Author: Center for Education of the National Academies
Publication Date: 2002
Editor: Richard J. Shavelson and Lisa Towne
Full text available online at: http://www.nap.edu/books/0309082919/html/
Brief 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 education—now codified in the federal law that authorizes the bulk of elementary and secondary education programs—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.
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