The Experimental Tradition

This chapter examines the experimental tradition in educational research. With it an attempt is made to provide a sense of the background assumptions and everyday details that are involved in the process of experimental research. Of course a chapter cannot be comprehensive and this chapter is not intended to be prescriptive. Rather it is intended to be a guide an approach to thinking about experimental paradigms. Thus issues and examples are selected that are particularly relevant and helpful in the role of an experimental researcher and a teacher.

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