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Research on Educational Innvoations

by: Ellis, Arthur K.

Research on Educational Innvoations

by: Ellis, Arthur K.

ISBN 13:
9781930556966
ISBN 10:
1930556969
Edition: 4th
Format: Hardcover
Copyright: 06/30/2005
Publisher: Taylor & Francis

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Summary

The fourth edition of this highly praised book includes coverage of evidence-based education and No Child Left Behind. Like the previous editions, it offers authoritative and balanced overviews to help you make distinctions between innovative programs backed up by sound research support and "faddish" ideas which lack a research base.

About the Author

What Research Is of Most Worth?

(10)

Evidence-Based Education

(1)

The Current Scene

(7)

Nature of Educational Innovation

(10)

What Is an Innovation?

(1)

Where Are They Now?

(1)

Research Based?

(1)

How Educational Theories Develop

(3)

Level I

(1)

Level II

(1)

Level III

(1)

Conclusion

(3)

The Structure of Educational Innovation

(8)

Reaping the Whirlwind

(1)

The Hunter Model: ``One More Such Victory and We Are Undone''

(1)

In Retrospect

(4)

``The Research Says...''

(10)

What ``Kind'' of Research?

(1)

Level I Research

(2)

Level II Research

(1)

Level III Research

(2)

Summary

(1)

The Following Chapters

(3)

Setting Standards

(18)

What Standards?

(1)

It Was Better in the Old Days, or Was It?

(1)

Plus ca Change, Plus C'est la Meme Chose

(1)

The Movement Gathers Steam

(1)

The Role of the States

(2)

Accountability and Standards

(2)

Points of Origin: Level 1

(1)

Essentialist Goals, Progressive Means

(1)

Research at Levels II and III

(3)

The Critics' Corner

(4)

Where Does This Leave Us?

(2)

Innovations From Brain Research

(12)

The Pendulum Is Well Into Its Swing

(4)

Research on Education and the Brain

(4)

Conclusion

(2)

Self-Esteem and Self-Efficacy

(18)

What is Self-Esteem?

(2)

The Claims and the Programs

(4)

A New Vaccine?

(3)

The Critics

(1)

Level I Research

(5)

Levels II and III Research

(2)

Conclusion

(3)

Teaching for Intelligence

(12)

What is Intelligence?

(2)

Reuven Feuerstein's Instrumental Enrichment

(1)

Does It Work? The Research

(1)

Howard Gardner and the Theory of Multiple Intelligences

(3)

Research on Multiple Intelligences: A Bridge Too Far?

(1)

Robert Sternberg and the Triarchic Theory of Intelligence

(2)

Research on the Triarchic Model

(1)

Conclusion

(1)

Thinking Skills Programs

(18)

Thoughts About Thinking

100

(4)

Program Implementation

104

(2)

Talents Unlimited

104

(2)

The Georgia Critical Thinking Skills Program

106

(3)

Writing as a Thinking and Learning Tool

106

(3)

The Research Base for Thinking Skills Programs

109

(6)

Can We Get There From Here?

109

(1)

Basic Research on Thinking

110

(2)

Is There Any Evidence? Levels II and III Research

112

(3)

Conclusion

115

(2)

Direct Instruction

117

(12)

What is Direct Instruction?

118

(6)

The Critics

123

(1)

The Research Base for Direct Instruction

124

(4)

Level I Research

124

(2)

Levels II and III Research

126

(2)

Conclusion

128

(1)

Assessment

129

(14)

The Movement

129

(1)

Traditional Measures

130

(1)

Authentic Assessment

131

(4)

Alternative Assessment Strategies

135

(2)

Is It Working?

137

(3)

Educational Research and Alternative Assessment

140

(2)

Conclusion

142

(1)

Mastery Learning

143

(14)

Reductionism at Work

144

(4)

Reversing the Order of Things

148

(1)

Level II Research

149

(1)

Implementation of Mastery Learning

149

(3)

The Research Base for Mastery Learning

152

(2)

Conclusion

154

(3)

Curriculum Integration

157

(16)

All Things Are Connected

160

(2)

The Research Base for Curriculum Integration

162

(9)

Remember John Dewey?

162

(2)

Bold Claims---Little Evidence

164

(6)

Other Research

170

(1)

Conclusion

171

(2)

Cooperative Learning

173

(10)

Cooperative Learning Models

174

(3)

Learning Together

176

(1)

Student Team Learning

176

(1)

Other Models

177

(1)

The Research Base for Cooperative Learning

177

(5)

Theory Building

177

(1)

Empirical Studies

178

(3)

Program Evaluation

181

(1)

Conclusion

182

(1)

Literacy: Whole Language and Its Discontents

183

(16)

Grabbing Hold of a ``Slippery Quarry''

186

(2)

Politics and Whole Language

188

(2)

The Research Base for Whole Language

190

(1)

How Do We Do It?

191

(3)

What We Do Know

194

(2)

So Where Does This Leave Us?

196

(3)

Epilogue

199

(4)

The Graveyard of Lost Ships

200

(1)

Beyond Empiricism

201

(1)

Research Questions to Ask

202

(1)

A Closing Thought

202

(1)

References

203

(30)

Index

233

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Research on Educational Innvoations

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1930556969

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