What makes educational research scientific? And should we be worried whether it is? This chapter approaches these questions from a philosophical perspective, while also introducing some relevant work from twentieth-century philosophy of science. It discusses scientific method, confirmation, the distinction between theory and observation, the aim of science, and the relative merits of qualitative and quantitative approaches.
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Rowbottom, D. P. (2013). Educational research as science? In A Companion to Research in Education (pp. 145–153). Springer Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6809-3_18
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