Pivotal Events impacting
Inquiry
Paradigms and Inquiry
Implications: Pragmatism and Practical Discourse
Dimensions of Literacy
Conclusions
100
The methods of randomized controlled experiments for primary research studies, and meta-analysis as the standard for combining results and drawing conclusions across studies brought about by the NCLB 2001 and ESRA 2002.p. 1105
What is Scientific Based Research?
100
"A conceptual system, clearly separate from other conceptual systems, with a self-sustaining, internal logic, constituted as a set of epistemological rules directed at solving problems matched to the logic and rules. p.1109
What is a paradigm?
100
"This is a distinctive American branch of philosophy that began in the context of the late-19th-century critiques of both hard science and social science." (1117)
What is pragmatism?
100
Identifying what might be a useful focus of inquiry or a problem to solve usually rest with_______. (1124)
What is the researcher (or expert)?
100
Many educational researchers are taking personal and professional _______ to step out of their comfort zones and up to the challenges of today's educational world. (1129)
What is risks?
200
career driven, project driven and ethics driven
What are the three types of literacy scholars?
200
They undergird the theoretical perspectives and methodology of a paradigm and thereby affect the interpretation of the analysis which are also heavily influenced by the researchers' philosophical worldviews.
What are assumptions?
200
This researcher describes pragmatism as "an attitude of looking away from the first things, principles, 'categories', supposed necessities; and looking towards last things, fruits, consequences facts." (1117)
Who is W. James?
200
Conversations about ________ could help participants better define problems and improve the design of studies, and this conversation could help participants focus on the specific social, cultural, and other contextual aspects that affect a particular inquiry. (1126)
What is the end results?
200
Solutions to educational issues require finding _________ instead of polarizing positions to address the real and necessary problems facing students, teachers, schools, families, and communities. (1129)
What is common ground?
300
This committee was given charge to review and synthesize recent literature on science and practice of scientific educational research and consider how to support high quality science in a federal educational reseach agency (1105)
What is National Reseach Counsel (NRE)2002?
300
Design-based research methods, i.e. paradigms that examines specific problems in authentic environments by examining the interactions of teachers, learners and materials and collaboration with participants p. 112
What are utility-oriented approaches to inquiry?
300
This tradition in conducting inquiry to useful ends takes precedence over finding ways to defend one's epistemology. (1118)
What is the spirit of the pragmatic tradition?
300
A desire to _____________ to identify and solve problems is key to the formation of partnerships among school-based personnel, literacy researchers, and community members. (1123)
What is work collaboratively?
300
Two politicians wrote an article, ______________, discussing the need for leadership to move forward. (1129)
What is "What Can We, as Americans Do Together?"?
400
The result of a five-year $18.5 million contract with the OERI that would "assess and report evidence to what works in education".(1107)
What is "What Works Clearinghouse (WWC)?"
400
Pearson and Stehens term for Literacy researchers using "descriptive and operational definitions, constitutive rules, and research methods" from other fields that "fit their individual paradigms". p. 1113
What is transdisciplinary field?
400
This individual contended that the denial of a multiplicity of inquiry paradigms by politically visible national panels and policymakers is an attempt to force compliance to a "Party Line." (1120)
Who is R. Ruddell?
400
______________ offers literacy researchers a way to approach inquiry that will enable us to agree to disagree, to address the important work of defining the literacy problems we need to solve, to determine how best to solve these problems, and to ensure that the results inform practice. (1122)
What is pragmatic perspective?
400
Social situations and ______________ that affect practice and concern local constituents must be key to the creation of shared research agendas. (1128)
What is complexity of problems?
500
This organization had an impact on what research was deemed worthy of including in a policy document that evently had bearing on the practice in U.S. Schools and an impact on federally funded research projects.
What is the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)?
500
The study considered ahead of its time because it used an anthropological lens to examine the "social reproduction of the minority-community pariah", and how the black children-white teacher relationship played "out in the social organization of reading instruction". p.1116
What is "Cultural Interaction"?
500
This term has been highly avoided by leading educational philosophers and researchers because it is overused and misconstrued.
What is pragmatism?
500
__________ must be open to diverse solutions to problems and varying roles of persons involved in partnerships. (1122)
What is communities?
500
________ need not separate us. Dreams of what could be can bring us together. (1129)
What is Ideologies?
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