Improving Educational Research: Toward a More Useful, More Influential, and Better-Funded Enterprise

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Title

Improving Educational Research: Toward a More Useful, More Influential, and Better-Funded Enterprise

Abstract/Description

Educational research is not very influential, useful, or well funded. This article explores why and suggests ways that the situation could be improved. Our focus is on the processes that link the development of good ideas and insights, the development of tools and structures for implementation, and the enabling of robust implementation in realistic practice. We suggest that educational research and development should be restructured so as to be more useful to practitioners and to policymakers, allowing the latter to make better-informed, less-speculative decisions that will improve practice more reliably.

Author/creator

Burkhardt, Hugh

Schoenfeld, Alan H.

Date

2003

In publication

Educational Researcher

Volume

32

Issue

9

Pages

3-14

Resource type

en Research/Scholarly Media

Resource status/form

en Published Text

Scholarship genre

en Theoretical

IRE Approach/Concept

Education Research

Policy

Problems of Research Practice

Language

en

Open access/full-text available

en Yes

Peer reviewed

en Yes

ISSN

0013-189X

DOI

10.3102/0013189X032009003

URL

Official Publisher's Webpage (SAGE Journals)

Full-text PDF Shared by Author (ResearchGate)

Citation

Burkhardt, H., & Schoenfeld, A. H. (2003). Improving Educational Research:Toward a More Useful, More Influential, and Better-Funded Enterprise. Educational Researcher, 32(9), 3–14. https://doi.org/10.3102/0013189X032009003

Cited in

The Policy Context of United States Educational Innovation and Improvement

Abbreviation

Educational Researcher

Item sets

Oxford Bibliography: The Policy Context of United States Educational Innovation and Improvement

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