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Toward a Knowledge Base: Why, How, for Whom?

Margaret C. Wang, +2 more
- 01 Sep 1993 - 
- Vol. 63, Iss: 3, pp 365-376
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In this paper, Levin and the editorial board devoted an unprecedented number of pages of the Review of Educational Research to a single article, with only one eighth the space to reply to the most strongly and frequently voiced questions of the commentators.
Abstract
We thank Henry Levin and the editorial board for devoting an unprecedented number of pages of the Review of Educational Research to a single article. We are also grateful to the commentators for their extensive responses to our work. With only one eighth the space to reply, we will respond to the most strongly and frequently voiced questions of the commentators: Why synthesize? How to synthesize? Can research inform practice? Before turning to these, it may be useful to ask an initial question.

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The Development of the Learning Study Approach in Classroom Research in Hong Kong

TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe the learning study approach, which has the potential to develop into a classroom research movement in Hong Kong, and examine how important research projects in the last decade have contributed to the development of this approach.
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Does Early Childhood Teacher Education Affect Students' Cognitive Orientations? The Effect of Different Education Tracks in Teacher Education on Prospective Early Childhood Teachers' Cognitive Orientations in Germany.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the knowledge orientations of prospective early childhood teachers attending universities and attending vocational schools and found that scientific knowledge orientation of BA-students was higher, subjective orientation was lower than students at professional schools.
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Relevance of Cognitive Orientations in Teacher Education and Professional Development of EFL Teachers at the University of Bihać

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the knowledge orientations of prospective early childhood teachers attending universities and attending vocational schools and found that scientific knowledge orientation of BA-students was higher, subjective orientation was lower than of students at professional schools.
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Development Of Math Proficiency Test Using Item Response Theory IRT

TL;DR: It explored that math proficiency test is appropriately constructed, based on NAEP’s adapted Mathematics Framework, and aligned with the newly developed standards, and benchmarks of National Mathematics Curriculum.
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The Principles of Psychology

William James
TL;DR: For instance, the authors discusses the multiplicity of the consciousness of self in the form of the stream of thought and the perception of space in the human brain, which is the basis for our work.
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Beyond the Two Disciplines of Scientific Psychology.

TL;DR: A progress report on ATI studies is provided in this article, with a focus on instruction related to instruction, drawing on a comprehensive review Richard Snow and I have just completed (Cronbach & Snow, in press).
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Toward a Knowledge Base for School Learning

TL;DR: The authors identified and estimated the influence of educational, psychological, and social factors on learning using evidence accumulated from 61 research experts, 91 meta-analyses, and 179 handbook chapters and narrative reviews.
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9: Integrating Findings: The Meta-Analysis of Research

TL;DR: Maccoby and Jacklin's (1974) review of research on the psychology of sex differences encompassed 1,600 works published before 1973, and the fact that many other studies that are not focused specifically on sex differences may contain data on the question can be imagined as discussed by the authors.
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The U.S. Department of Education.

Skee Smith
- 01 Nov 1979 - 
TL;DR: The 2016 Budget of the United States of America is designed to bring middle class economics into the 21st century as discussed by the authors, and it makes critical investments needed to accelerate and sustain economic growth in the long run, including in research, education, training, and infrastructure.
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