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What kind of creature is a design experiment?
Author(s) -
Gorard Stephen,
Roberts Karen,
Taylor Chris
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
british educational research journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.171
H-Index - 89
eISSN - 1469-3518
pISSN - 0141-1926
DOI - 10.1080/0141192042000237248
Subject(s) - field (mathematics) , computer science , management science , conjunction (astronomy) , research design , educational research , engineering ethics , data science , epistemology , sociology , social science , engineering , mathematics , philosophy , physics , astronomy , pure mathematics
This article considers the emerging method of design experimentation, and its developing use in educational research. It considers the extent to which design experiments are different from other, more established, methods and the extent to which elements of established methods can be adapted for use in conjunction with them. One major issue to be addressed before the metaphors and methods of design experiments can be fully accepted is that they assume the combination of different forms of data from different sources. How this combination takes place is, as yet, unresolved. The article, therefore, looks at similar problems also faced in ‘new’ political arithmetic, research syntheses and field trials to see how lessons learned in these approaches could help in the development of the design field.