I am looking for additional papers to read on education research. I have read a cross-section from the past ~40 years or so but would like to know what researchers themselves consider to be the most rigorous papers in their field(s).
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The politicization is a reflection of the fact that it's ambiguous what that-which-we-call-education is for. This is why Direct Instruction research can be an exception: the benchmark is clear (reading and arithmetic). Permits an engineering-esque approach!
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One book about education that I understand to be very good, and aware of what I just said, is (fortunately or unfortunately) Bryan Caplan's "The Case Against Education".
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And to put my cards on the table: there's a paper that is critical of Carl Wieman / Phet, whom I and one other person who's tweeted you likes. They're rigorous in the sense that they define and use a measurement method. And they find that Phet performs badly by that measurment!
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... and *my* response to that is "yeah, well, that's a crap way to measure how much you've educated someone" - which is a pretty politicized thing of me to say! I can't remember the study, can find it if you're interested!
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