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Eve Manz – NSTA Press, 2025
"Productive Uncertainty in Science Education" provides the support that teachers and students need for more complex science investigations. Science is driven by the need to manage uncertainty--uncertainty about how to explain the world, but also how to represent the world in an investigation, what to measure, and how to convince peers to…
Descriptors: Science Education, Teaching Methods, Scientific Concepts, Concept Formation
Randall, David; Welser, Christopher – National Association of Scholars, 2018
A reproducibility crisis afflicts a wide range of scientific and social-scientific disciplines, from epidemiology to social psychology. Improper research techniques, lack of accountability, disciplinary and political groupthink, and a scientific culture biased toward producing positive results together have produced a critical state of affairs.…
Descriptors: Scientific Methodology, Replication (Evaluation), Scientific Research, Guidelines
English, Fenwick W., Ed.; Furman, Gail C., Ed. – Rowman & Littlefield Education, 2006
"Research and Educational Leadership" is the first book to directly address the implications of the National Research Council's (NRC's) "Scientific Research in Education" (2002) in the fields of educational leadership and school administration. This text points out the strengths and weaknesses of the NRC's recommendations and…
Descriptors: Scientific Research, School Administration, Researchers, Instructional Leadership
Rothwell, William J. – 2002
This book explains how work organizations can create a workplace climate that encourages real-time, on-the-job learning and development of competent workplace learners, who are wiling and able to seize the initiative for identifying their own learning experiences and evaluating the results. The following are among the topics discussed: (1) the…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Adult Learning, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Style