Empirical Methods for Evaluating Educational Interventions

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Framing Educational Research Inquiry to Meet Today`s Realities 1. RANDOMIZED CLASSROOM TRIALS ON TRIAL 3 Joel R. Levin 2. THE NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND ACT, SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH AND FEDERAL EDUCATION POLICY: A VIEW FROM WASHINGTON, D.C. 29 Valeric F. Reyna 3. DISSING SCIENCE: SELLING SCIENTIFICALLY BASED PRACTICES TO A NATION THAT DISTRUSTS SCIENCE 53 Diane F. Halpern 4. THE FAILURE OF EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH TO IMPACT EDUCATIONAL PRACTICE: SIX OBSTACLES TO EDUCATIONAL REFORM 67 Richard E. Mayer Basic Issues When Addressing Human Behavior: An Experimental Research Perspective 5. CAN WE MEASURE THE QUALITY OF CAUSAL RESEARCH IN EDUCATION? 85 Jeffrey C. Valentine and Harris M. Cooper 6. MEASURING LEARNING OUTCOMES: RELIABILITY AND VALIDITY ISSUES 113 Jerry D`hgostino 7. THE MICRO AND MACRO IN THE ANALYSIS AND CONCEPTUALIZATION OF EXPERIMENTAL DATA John T. Behrens and Daniel H. Robinson Producing Credible Applied Educational Research 8. BEYOND THE LABORATORY OR CLASSROOM: THE EMPIRICAL BASIS OF EDUCATIONAL POLICY Robert Boruch 9. ACADEMIC LEARNING AND ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT: CORRESPONDENCE ISSUES 193 Gary D. Pfiye 10. EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH IN CLASSROOMS Mgela M. O`Donnell 11. PROMOTING INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL VALIDITY:A SYNERGISM OF LABORATORY-LIKE EXPERIMENTS AND CLASSROOM-BASED SELF-REGULATED STRATEGY DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH 235 Steven Graham, Karen H. Harris and Jennifer Zito