Research on educational innovations / Arthur K. Ellis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ellis, Arthur K.

Series:

Eye on Education book.

An Eye On Education Book

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education--United States--Experimental methods.

Education.

Educational innovations--United States.

Educational innovations.

Education--Research--United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (241 p.)

Edition:

4th ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The fourth edition of this highly praised book includes coverage of evidence-based education and No Child Left Behind. Like the previous editions, it offers authoritative and balanced overviews to help you make distinctions between innovative programs backed up by sound research support and "faddish" ideas which lack a research base.

Contents:

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; About the Author; Table of Contents; 1 What Research Is of Most Worth?; Evidence-Based Education; The Current Scene; 2 Nature of Educational Innovation; What Is an Innovation?; Where Are They Now?; Research Based?; How Educational Theories Develop; Level I; Level II; Level III; Conclusion; 3 The Structure of Educational Innovation; Reaping the Whirlwind; The Hunter Model: "One More Such Victory and We Are Undone"; In Retrospect; 4 "The Research Says..."; What "Kind" of Research?; Level I Research; Level II Research; Level III Research; Summary

The Following Chapters5 Setting Standards; What Standards?; It Was Better in the Old Days, or Was It?; Plus ça Change, Plus C'est la Meme Chose; The Movement Gathers Steam; The Role of the States; Accountability and Standards; Points of Origin: Level 1; Essentialist Goals, Progressive Means; Research at Levels II and III; The Critics' Corner; Where Does This Leave Us?; 6 Innovations From Brain Research; The Pendulum Is Well Into Its Swing; Research on Education and the Brain; Conclusion; 7 Self-Esteem and Self-Efficacy; What is Self-Esteem?; The Claims and the Programs; A New Vaccine?

The CriticsLevel I Research; Levels II and III Research; Conclusion; 8 Teaching for Intelligence; What is Intelligence?; Reuven Feuerstein's Instrumental Enrichment; Does It Work? The Research; Howard Gardner and the Theory of Multiple Intelligences; Research on Multiple Intelligences: A Bridge Too Far?; Robert Sternberg and the Triarchic Theory of Intelligence; Research on the Triarchic Model; Conclusion; 9 Thinking Skills Programs; Thoughts About Thinking; Program Implementation; Talents Unlimited; The Georgia Critical Thinking Skills Program; Writing as a Thinking and Learning Tool

The Research Base for Thinking Skills ProgramsCan We Get There From Here?; Basic Research on Thinking; Is There Any Evidence? Levels II and III Research; Conclusion; 10 Direct Instruction; What is Direct Instruction?; The Critics; The Research Base for Direct Instruction; Level I Research; Levels II and III Research; Conclusion; 11 Assessment; The Movement; Traditional Measures; Authentic Assessment; Alternative Assessment Strategies; Is It Working?; Educational Research and Alternative Assessment; Conclusion; 12 Mastery Learning; Reductionism at Work; Reversing the Order of Things

Level II ResearchImplementation of Mastery Learning; The Research Base for Mastery Learning; Conclusion; 13 Curriculum Integration; All Things Are Connected; The Research Base for Curriculum Integration; Remember John Dewey?; Bold Claims-Little Evidence; Other Research; Conclusion; 14 Cooperative Learning; Cooperative Learning Models; Learning Together; Student Team Learning; Other Models; The Research Base for Cooperative Learning; Theory Building; Empirical Studies; Program Evaluation; Conclusion; 15 Literacy: Whole Language and Its Discontents; Grabbing Hold of a "Slippery Quarry"

Politics and Whole Language

Notes:

"An Eye on Education book."

Originally published 2005 by Eye On Education.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-317-93001-0

1-317-93002-9

1-280-99600-5

9786613767615

1-61442-048-3

9781614420484

OCLC:

970389532