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A Grand Educational Experiment in Reading Instruction: Toward Methodology for Building the Capacity of Pre-Collegiate Schooling by Dick Schutz - January 24, 2012Context: The results of 14 very-large-scale Randomized Control Experiments calls into question the utility of the methodology for building the capacity of pre-collegiate schooling.
Purpose: To sketch the workings of Planned Variation methodology as an alternative and to call attention to a Natural Experiment currently in progress involving reading instruction in the UK and the US.
Conclusions: (1) Planned Variation methodology offers considerable promise for improving pre-collegiate schooling capacity. (2) The Grand Experiment warrants careful consideration as its operations unfold. To view the full-text for this article you must be signed-in with the appropriate membership. Please review your options below:
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- Dick Schutz
3RsPlus, Inc. E-mail Author DICK SCHUTZ is President of 3RsPlus, Inc. a firm conducting R&D and constructing educational products. He was formerly Professor of Educational Psychology at Arizona State University and Executive Director of the Southwest Regional Laboratory for Educational Research and Development. He has served as the founding editor of the Journal of Educational Measurement, the founding journal editor of the Educational Researcher, and editor of the American Educational Research Journal. His recent technical papers can be accessed from the Social Science Research Network http://ssrn.com/author=1199505
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