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Science versus Basic Educational Research

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2016

Abstract

One goal of basic research in education is to identify the variables of effective instruction. As this pursuit has been conceived, however, its theoretical problems make it unlikely that the effort will provide a clear picture of instructional variables, their interactions, or the kind of teacher training that is implied by instructional variables.

Type
Research Article
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Copyright © The Australian Association of Special Education 2008

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