SAGE Journal Articles
SAGE Journal Articles combine cutting-edge academic journal scholarship with the topics in your course for a robust classroom experience.
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Article 1: Hyslop-Margison, E. (2010). Scientific paradigms and falsification: Kuhn, popper, and problems in education research. Educational Policy, 24(5), 815-831.
Summary: The author highlights some prevailing problems in the article with the methods of so-called scientific research in education. The author enumerates a number of reasons why such research, in spite of its limited tangible return, continues to gain institutional momentum in colleges and faculties of education.
Questions to Consider:
1. What are the author’s criticisms of Kuhn and Popper’s article?
2. What is the important of evidence-based education?
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Article 2: Lewis, C. (2015). What Is Improvement Science? Do We Need It in Education?. Educational Researcher, 44(1), 54-61.
Summary: This article describes improvement science and explores its potential and challenges within education. Potential contributions include attention to the knowledge-building and motivational systems within schools, strategies for learning from variations in practice, and focus on improvement (rather than on program adoption).
Questions to Consider:
1. What is improvement science and how does it apply to educational research?
2. Identify the two examples of improvement science that are examined.
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Article 3: Gutiérrez, K. D., & Penuel, W. R. (2014). Relevance to practice as a criterion for rigor. Educational Researcher, 43(1), 19-23.
Summary: In this article, the authors argue for a reconceptualization of rigor that requires sustained, direct, and systematic documentation of what takes place inside programs to document how students and teachers change and adapt interventions in interactions with each other in relation to their dynamic local contexts.
Questions to Consider:
1. How can the author’s new criterion, “relevance to practice”, ensure longevity and efficacy of educational research?
2. What are placed-based efforts? How are they applied in education?