[AAACE-NLA] Evidence on "What Works": An Argument for Extended-TermMixed-Method

[George Demetrion]

Donna,

 

I was able to take a decent look at the beginning portions of the
article while at lunch.  I'll try to read the whole piece carefully by
the end of the week

 

In its postpositivistic orientation, it certainly seems to be
challenging the operative assumptions of the What Works Clearinghouse's
interpretation of science, at least to the extent that I understand the
article and the Clearinghouse's intellectual assumptions.

 

I also seek to address these issues from a somewhat different way in a
web-based essay "Postpositivist Scientific Philosophy:  Mediating
Approaches accessed here:
(http://www.the-rathouse.com/Postpositivism.htm), which includes an
illustrative discussion on the relationship between learning how to read
and broader-based literacy acquisition.  

 

George Demetrion

 

P.S. My book, Conflicting Paradigms in Adult Literacy Education is
accessible to a larger audience than this somewhat abstract, though I
would argue, not insignificant piece that I spent about four months
writing.

 

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Extended-TermMixed-Method 

 

of course the argument is good only if people read/acknowledge it

 

Evidence on "What Works": An Argument for Extended-Term Mixed-Method
(ETMM) Evaluation Designs
<http://www.aera.net/uploadedFiles/Journals_and_Publications/Journals/Ed
ucational_Researcher/Volume_33_No_9/02_ERv33n9_Chatterji.pdf>  
Wednesday, January 5, 2005
AERA
Madhabi Chatterji

 

Donna Martinez
"The world is dangerous not because of those who do harm, but because of
those who look at it without doing anything." - Albert Einstein





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