Some subscribers to TeamLearning-L might be interested in a recent post "Scientifically-based Education Is Not an Oxymoron" [Hake (2009a)]. The abstract reads: ***************************************** ABSTRACT: My post "Is Scientifically-based Education an Oxymoron? Reply to Eubanks" of 14 July referenced David Berliner's essay "Educational Research: The Hardest Science of All," written in response to "Scientific Research in Education" [Shavelson et al. (2002)]. Here I point to the response to Berliner by Feuer, Towne, & Shavelson who wrote: "Our point is not that the physical, life, and social sciences are equally hard or easy, but that GOOD SCIENCE, WHETHER IN PHYSICS OR ECONOMICS OR EDUCATION, THRIVES ON A COMBINATION OF GENERIC NORMS THAT APPLY TO ALL FIELDS and on manifestations of those norms that are specific to each field." [My CAPS.] As indicted in my post "Re: Scientific Method" of 15-16 July, those norms are well expressed by Helen Quinn (2009) in her Physics Today essay "What is science," and in no way support Gerald Bracey's contention that "Scientifically-based Education Is an Oxymoron." Some other valuable online references to scientific methods, consistent with Quinn, are: Berkeley (2009), Denker (2003), Hake (2002), and Woolf (2004). ***************************************** To access the complete 13 kB post, please click on <http://tinyurl.com/nyrzs8>. Richard Hake, Emeritus Professor of Physics, Indiana University 24245 Hatteras Street, Woodland Hills, CA 91367 Honorary Member, Curmudgeon Lodge of Deventer, The Netherlands. <[log in to unmask]> <http://www.physics.indiana.edu/~hake/> <http://www.physics.indiana.edu/~sdi/> <http://HakesEdStuff.blogspot.com/> ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* A famous curmudgeon named Bracey, Thought a science of ed was cracy, Each student's sentient And has her own penchant So science won't work - prima facie. ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* Richard Hake (2009b) REFERENCES [Tiny URL's courtesy <http://tinyurl.com/create.php>.] Hake, R.R. 2009a. "Scientifically-based Education Is Not an Oxymoron," online on the OPEN! AERA-L archives at <http://tinyurl.com/nyrzs8>. Post of 16 Jul 2009 to AERA-L and various other discussion lists. Hake, R.R. 2009b. "Is Scientifically-based Education an Oxymoron? Reply To Bracey," online on the OPEN! AERA-L archives at <http://tinyurl.com/kmrse2>. Post of 11 Jul 2009 16:04:43-0700 to AERA-L and Net-Gold. The abstract only was also transmitted to various discussion lists.