Cover -- Contents -- Contributors -- Preface -- PART I: Framing Educational Research Inquiry to Meet Today's Realities -- CHAPTER 1: Randomized Classroom Trials on Trial -- CHAPTER 2: The No Child Left Behind Act, Scientific Research and Federal Educational Policy: A View from Washington, DC -- CHAPTER 3: Dissing Science: Selling Scientifically Based Educational Practices to a Nation that Distrusts Science -- CHAPTER 4: The Failure of Educational Research to Impact Educational Practice: Six Obstacles to Educational Reform -- PART II: Basic Issues When Addressing Human Behavior: An Experimental Research Perspective -- CHAPTER 5: Can We Measure the Quality of Causal Research in Education? -- CHAPTER 6: Measuring Learning Outcomes: Reliability and Validity Issues -- CHAPTER 7: The Micro and Macro in the Analysis and Conceptualization of Experimental Data -- PART III: Producing Credible Applied Educational Research -- CHAPTER 8: Beyond the Laboratory or Classroom: The Empirical Basis of Educational Policy1 -- CHAPTER 9: Academic Learning and Academic Achievement: Correspondence Issues -- CHAPTER 10: Experimental Research in Classrooms -- CHAPTER 11: Promoting Internal and External Validity: A Synergism of Laboratory-Like Experiments and Classroom-Based Self-Re -- Index -- Last Page
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