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        "Standards in Conducting and Publishing Research in Education"

                                                                  Bruce Thompson
                                                            Texas A&M University
                                                                          and
                                                        Baylor College of Medicine

This paper was the keynote address presented at the annual meeting of the Mid-Western Educational Research Association (MWERA), St. Louis, MO, October 26, 2007.

                                                       Abstract
Arthur Levine's (2007) recent report on the academic preparation of education doctoral students, Educating Researchers,
http://www.edschools.org/EducatingResearchers/educating_researchers.pdf
is highly critical of both AERA and the scholarly training of education doctoral students. One criticism Levine (2007) offers is his view that educational researchers have no standards with which to evaluate their own and each others' work. The report comes on the heals of Mosteller and Boruch's (2002) Evidence Matters, and Towne and Shavelson's (2003) Scientific Research in Education (cf. Towne, Wise & Winters, 2005). These reports provide context for discussing AERA's (2006) "Standards for Reporting on Empirical Social Science Research in AERA Publications,"
http://www.aera.net/uploadedFiles/Opportunities/ StandardsforReportingEmpiricalSocialScience_PDF.pdf
and related developments, such as the 2005 creation of the Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness. http://www.educationaleffectiveness.org/pages/about.shtml


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            Standards in Conducting and Publishing Research in Education