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Notes from Gage 1991

Obviousness of Social and Educational Research Results. Several distinguished luminaries have commented on what they perceive as the obviousness of social and educational research results.Frank Keppel (former Dean of Harvard Graduate School of Education)James Bryant Conant (former President of Har

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Notes from Gage 1991

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    1. Notes from Gage (1991) Obviousness of Social and Educational Research Results

    2. Obviousness of Social and Educational Research Results Several distinguished luminaries have commented on what they perceive as the obviousness of social and educational research results. Frank Keppel (former Dean of Harvard Graduate School of Education) James Bryant Conant (former President of Harvard University) Denis Phillips (Stanford Professor of Philosophy)

    3. Obviousness of Social and Educational Research Results Rice (in 1897 and 1913), after studing 33,000 youngsters was unable to establish a correlation between time devoted to learning spelling and competence in spelling. What about Lazarsfelds (1949) hoax? What appears obviousness is not necessarily so.

    4. Empirical Investigations of Obviousness Mischel (1981) and Mischel & Mischel (1979): 4th an 6th graders. Factual and non-factual statements of situations involving psychological principals. The task was to select, from a set of choices, would happen in each situation. The majority, but by no means all, of the students selected the correct result.

    5. Empirical Investigations of Obviousness Baratz (1983): Students were asked to indicate how predictable or obvious each statements appeared. Both true and false statements were identified, by a majority of students, as obvious.

    6. Empirical Investigations of Obviousness Wong (1987): An extended replication of Bratz. Selected individual who differed in terms of what they might be expected to know about the subject matter (process outcome findings in elementary education). The study was conducted in Singapore (n = 862) and America (n = 353)

    7. Empirical Investigations of Obviousness Wong (1987), continued Five forms of here questionnaire: Form A asked respondents to select the TRUE finding from each pair (one true, one false) of statements. In Form B1 respondents rated the truefullness of each of 16 statements (half were true; half false) Form B2 was similar to Form B1 but contained a different set of 16 statements. In Form C the statements from Form B were accompanied with explanations.

    8. Empirical Investigations of Obviousness Wong (1987) continued Singaporeans rated more items obvious than did Americans. All respondents tended to rate both factual and non-factual statements obvious. Level of experience did not seem to make a difference.

    9. Where should the research go from here? How would you design the next study in the sequence?

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