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Education research: a nebulous miasma of jumbled words and ideas : Comments
By Peter Ridd, published 7/3/2005Peter Ridd argues that we are not getting value for money from educational research.
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I congratulate you, a fellow Physicist, on stepping into the breach in the absence of Educational Researchers to list some important contributions of Educational Research. However the list is singularly unimpressive especially when one considers what influence all this has had on the learning of school kids. Certainly some points in the list will have had a small but useful influence on teaching and learning, but each of them hardly represent more than a few PhD dissertations.
I would estimate that there are 5 times as many educational academics as Physics academics at Universities. If we presume that 1/3rd of their time is to be devoted to research, and that this research seems rarely to give any benefit, this is poor value indeed.
Peter Ridd