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Hi all-
There is a glaring difference between the educational research
and the physics research the I have seen. The educational exeriments seem
to be generally designed and conducted for the purpose of proving the
correctness of an educational theory. Physics experiments are generally
designed and conducted for the purpose of disproving a physical theory.
That is why there are many experimental physics papers labeled "Search for
..." (with the implication that the search was unsuccessful) and the
result being an upper or lower bound on the value of some conjectured
quantity (today's seminar comes to mind, the subject was proton decay).
How many educational experimental papers have you seen where the
proponent of a new educational theory reported on the unsuccess of the
theory? Yet it is valuable to know the techniques that are
enthusiastically tried and don't work.
Regards,
Jack
I believe that it was Confucius who once said that
"All education experiments are doomed to success".
Herb Gottlieb from New York City
Where education research is always 100% successful