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Direct linkHowe, Kenneth R. – Educational Theory, 2005
The ascendant view in the current debate about education science -- experimentism -- is a reassertion of the randomized experiment as the methodological gold standard. Advocates of this view have ignored, not answered, long-standing criticisms of the randomized experiment: its frequent impracticality, its lack of external validity, its confinement…
Descriptors: Scientific Methodology, Research Methodology, Research Design, Educational Experiments
