The Fine Art of Educational Research Muckraking
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8223277 |
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| Authors | Barton B Proger (Pennsylvania Resource and Information Center for Special Education, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1971 |
| Volume | 8 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 163-166 |
| Publication date | 1971-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Educational Research Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-8312 • E-ISSN: 1935-1011 |
| Publisher | American Educational Research Association (AERA) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.3102/00028312008001163 |
| OpenAlex | W2069053347, W4252070677 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 5 |
In recent issues of AERJ and other periodicals disseminating educational research results, I have become disgruntled over an undesirable trend that is becoming alarmingly commonplace. More and more commentators who review a recently published research study seem to center a large part-if not the major part-of their criticism around an investigator's competence, the lack of refined screening ability on the part of the journal editors, the sophistication of the journal itself, and so on. While I agree that a good deal of educational research leaves much to be desired, I also resent seeing in print reaching thousands of a researcher's peers such damaging reflections on his intentions and abilities. Research criticism can and should be objective. Granted, a critique of a recently published research study becomes much more readable to those with a bent toward the old art of muckraking (and who among us does not find such discussion interesting and easy to identify with in this day and age?!). However, do such critical reviews add anything to an already ailing entity? The behavioral sciences seem to be particularly subject to such tasteless attacks on person and project. Rarely does one come across such exposition in professional publications in the physical and life sciences. For example, if one keeps abreast of the many controversies that appear weekly in Science, the official publication of the American Association for the
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| Highly cited | No |
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