Educational research

Educational research

Educational research is research conducted to investigate behavioral patterns in pupils, students, teachers and other participants in schools and other educational institutions. Such research is often conducted by examining work products such as documents and standardized test results.

The methods of educational research are derived chiefly from the social sciences, and in particular from psychology.Fact|date=July 2007

Primary Branches in Methodology

* Qualitative Research Methodology
* Quantitative Research Methodology

List of Researchers

*George Akerlof
*Joshua Angrist
*Gary Becker
*Julian Betts
*Charles Bidwell
*James E. Bruno
*Anthony Bryk
*James S. Coleman
*Anne E. Cunningham
*Douglas Downey
*Greg Duncan
*Richard Elmore
*George Farkas
*David Figlio
*Roland Fryer
*Gene V Glass
*Eric Hanushek
*James Heckman
*Larry Hedges
*Frederick Hess
*Luis Huerta
*Richard Ingersoll
*Thomas Kane
*Alan Kreuger
*Helen Ladd
*Lance Lochner
*Richard Murnane
*Daphna Oyserman
*Andrew C. Porter
*Stephen Raudenbush
*Diane Ravitch
*Melissa Roderick
*Alexander Russo
*Barbara Schneider
*Bennett Shaywitz
*Sally Shaywitz
*Dorothy Shipps
*Brandon Snyder
*Keith Stanovich
*Nancy Stein
*Joseph Torgeson
*( (Sunil Behari Mohanty))

See also

* Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT)
* Education policy
* Educational evaluation
* Policy analysis

External links

* [http://www.bestevidence.org/ Best Evidence Encyclopedia - Johns Hopkins University]
* [http://www.labourindia.com/ Labour India Educational Research Centre]
* [http://www.aera.net/ American Education Research Association]
* [http://www.bera.ac.uk/ British Educational Research Association]
* [http://www.csse.ca/ Canadian Society for the Study of Education]
* [http://www.ers.org/ Educational Research Service]
* [http://www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ies/index.html Institute of Education Sciences (U.S. Department of Education)]
* [http://www.nfer.ac.uk/ National Foundation for Educational Research (UK)]
* [http://www.newteachercenter.org New Teacher Center at the University of California, Santa Cruz]
* [http://www.iapsych.com/articles/hsiesh2005.pdf "Is Educational Intervention Research on the Decline?"]
* [http://www.tlrp.org/ The Teaching & Learning Research Programme]
* [http://www.wested.org/ WestEd]
* [http://www.wcer.wisc.edu/ Wisconsin Center for Education Research]
* [http://www.wiscape.wisc.edu Wisconsin Center for the Advancement of Postsecondary Education]
* [http://www.fapeonline.org/ Free Education Research]
* [http://www.ecrainstitute.org/ The ECRA Institute - Advancing Knowledge Through Research]
* [http://www.brook.edu/gs/brown/brown_hp.htm Brookings Institution Brown Center on Education]
* [http://www.edexcellence.net/foundation/global/index.cfm Thomas B. Fordham Foundation Institute]
* [http://www.nwrel.org/ Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory] & http://www.aiaer.net/ All India Association for Educational Research


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