Issues in Education Research: Problems and Possibilities

"This volume constitutes a milestone and a directional marker onthe path to improving the training of educational researchers aswell as enhancing the quality and the impact of educationalresearch. It is comprehensive, scholarly, and readable, and itpresents a challenge to schools of education and to the society asa whole to do whatever is necessary for us to upgrade the questionswe ask and the answers we provide." (Catherine Snow, Henry LeeShattuck Professor of Education, Harvard Graduate School ofEducation)

"This important project of the National Academy of Education willhelp researchers and policymakers understand the complexity ofconducting high-quality research in the context of real classroomsand schools." (Lorrie A. Shepard, president, American EducationalResearch Association, and professor, University of Colorado atBoulder)

"Issues in Education Research's greatest contribution is to providethe reader with a set of well-written chapters that present in onevolume much of the lay of the land--or disputed territory--thatcharacterizes current-day education research.... This book preparesus for the tough task of going beyond particularistic views."(Richard J. Shavelson, dean, School of Education, StanfordUniversity)