5 Foreword
6 Preface
7 1 Introduction: What Is the Question?
8 2 A Criterial Conception of Truth and Objectivity: Its Relevance to Educational Research
9 3 Why Empirical Educational Research Needs to Be Taken Seriously
11 5 How Good Is Empirical Research – Disaster or Success?
12 6 Could Empirical Research-Based Knowledge Be Cumulative?
13 7 Converging Explanations: Quantitative and Qualitative Methods and How They Are Related
14 8 Intervention Studies, Experimental Methods and Evidence-Based Policy
15 9 Case Study 1: Bernsteinian Sociolinguistics
16 10 Case Study 2: The Comparative Study of Vocational Education
17 11 Case Study 3: School Effectiveness and Improvement Research
18 12 Case Study 4: Research on the Teaching of Reading Debate and on Dyslexia
19 13 Educational Faddism and How to (Possibly) Avoid It
20 14 How Philosophical and Empirical Research Can Work Together
21 15 Prospects for Empirical Educational Research and Its Future Relevance to Policy and Practice
22 References
23 Index
List of Figures
1 Chapter 6Figure 1.6 The Bernstein Sociolinguistic Research Programme.
2 Chapter 11Figure 1 Distribution of contextual value-added scores...
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