[Phys-l] Seventeen Statements by Gold-Standard Skeptics #2

[Richard Hake <rrhake@earthlink.net>]

Some subscribers to Phys-L might be interested in a post "Seventeen 
Statements by Gold-Standard Skeptics #2" [Hake (2010)].

 The abstract reads:

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ABSTRACT: Andy Rudd in an EdResMeth post 6 Apr 2010 titled "Cause and 
Effect" wrote: "Today I dealt with a doctoral student who was 
adamantly opposed to the idea that causal relationships can be 
studied using non experimental designs. . . . . . I am curious what 
others think about the use of non experimental designs to study 
causal relationships if it is not possible to use an experimental or 
quasi-experimental design."

This initiated an 18-post thread of diverse comments on the student's 
opinion, accessible at <http://tinyurl.com/y4um3g3>.  Rudd's student 
may have been influenced by the fact that the "Randomized Control 
Trial" has been enthroned by the U.S. Dept. of Education (USDE, 2008) 
and Mosteller & Boruch (2002) as the "gold standard" for 
demonstrating causality in education research.

For consideration by Rudd's student and others, herewith are 
SEVENTEEN STATEMENTS BY GOLD-STANDARD SKEPTICS:

(1) American Education Research Association;

(2) American Evaluation Association;

(3) Hugh Burkhardt & Alan Schoenfeld;

(4) Tom Cook & Monique Payne;

(5) Margaret Eisenhart & Lisa Towne;

(6) European Evaluation Society;

(7) Richard Hake;

(8) Burke Johnson;

(9) Annette Lareau & Pamela Barnhouse;

(10) Joseph Maxwell; 

(11) National Education Association;

(12) Dennis Phillips;

(13) Barbara Schneider, Martin Carnoy, Jeremy Kilpatrick, William Schmidt, &
          Richard Shavelson;

(14) Michael Scriven;

(15) Mack Shelley, Larry Yore, and Brian Hand;

(16) Deborah Stipek; and

(17) Carol Weiss.
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Richard Hake, Emeritus Professor of Physics, Indiana 
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REFERENCES [Tiny URL's courtesy <http://tinyurl.com/create.php> .]
Hake, R.R. 2010. "Seventeen Statements by Gold-Standard Skeptics #2," 
online on the OPEN! AERA-L archives at <http://tinyurl.com/3az7tvu>. 
Post of 27 Apr 2010 10:03:58-0700 to AERA-L and Net-Gold. The 
abstract and link to the complete post are also being transmitted to 
various discussion lists and are online at 
<http://hakesedstuff.blogspot.com/2010/04/seventeen-statements-by-gold-standard.html> 
with a provision for comments.