Is educational research evidence-based?
Martyn Hammersley,
BERA Blog,
Apr 27, 2020
Martyn Hammersley points to a key issue in educational research: "no empirical facts can, on their own, provide sufficient support for practical evaluations and recommendations, since these necessarily involve value assumptions." That's why it's so hard to think of educational practices as being purely "resaearch based". This serves merely to disguise the values and presumptions behind the assertions being made about learning and development. At best, what research supports is a set of conditional statements: if you want to achieve this outcome, then this is shown to be effective (or not, as it were).
Today: 3 Total: 1122 [Direct link] [Share]
