Bibliothèque de L'IMIST/CNRST

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I. Framing Educational Research Inquiry to Meet Today's Realities -- Randomized classroom trials on trial / Joel R. Levin 3 -- The No Child Left Behind Act, scientific research and federal education policy : a view from Washington, D.C. / Valerie F. Reyna 29 -- Dissing science : selling scientifically based practices to a nation that distrusts science / Diane F. Halpern 53 -- The failure of educational research to impact educational practice : six obstacles to educational reform / Richard E. Mayer 67 -- Part II. Basic Issues When Addressing Human Behavior : An Experimental Research Perspective -- Can we measure the quality of causal research in education? / Jeffrey C. Valentine, Harris M. Cooper 85 -- Measuring learning outcomes : reliability and validity issues / Jerry D'Agostino 113 -- The micro and macro in the analysis and conceptualization of experimental data / John T. Behrens, Daniel H. Robinson 147 -- Part III. Producing Credible Applied Educational Research -- Beyond the laboratory or classroom : the empirical basis of educational policy / Robert Boruch 177 -- Academic learning and academic achievement : correspondence issues / Gary D. Phye 193 -- Experimental research in classrooms / Angela M. O'Donnell 213 -- Promoting internal and external validity : a synergism of laboratory-like experiments and classroom-based self-regulated strategy development research / Steven Graham, Karen H. Harris, Jennifer Zito 235.

"Suitable for use by educational researchers, educators, administrators, and policy-makers, this resource will guide readers how to design, interpret, and apply educational research into practice."--BOOK JACKET.