What's next? A guiding question for educators engaged in educational research.

摘要

For all of us, the question of how to make educational research better is pressing. We don't mean by more self-flagellation, which has become an almost obligatory competency for educational researchers. The limits constraining our advancement of knowledge have been vocally, and repeatedly, articulated: some argue that the methodologies employed need to be changed; others contend that we as a community have done a poor job reporting on our data analyses, and yet others question the quality of reporting more generally. This editorial is not meant to comprise more of the same (although we would note that the debate is worth continuing), but is aimed instead at offering some perspectives with which we, as a community, might grow beyond the self-flagellation compulsion towards effective advancement of our excellence as a field of knowledge.