[NLA] Fwd: [NIFL-ESL:7565] RE: Theory for TEachers

[AWilder106@aol.com]

Friends,

I am forwarding this to the nla list.

It seems to me that theory-in-practice is what teachers do, and that it is 
quite hard to abstract a "study" from this.  This suggests that the best 
study designers are teachers with knowledge about how to put a study 
together, so the academic and teacher world can both recognize the reality 
being described.  We may still have to translate for the policy world.

We still need to focus on method, and if there are more studies out there 
which would be recognizable by both teachers and academics as being 
valid--what is called "consensual validity," the overlap between these two 
worlds, where both teachers and researchers agree that something USEFUL is 
being described.

Information from the ESL and LD listservs might be brought into play here, I 
think.

Andrea
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