Educational research

Educational research is research conducted to investigate behavioral patterns in pupils, students, teachers and other participants in schools and other educational institutions. Such research is often conducted by examining work products such as documents and standardized test results.

As with other social sciences, educational researchers use a variety of qualitative and quantitative research methods.

List of researchers

• Joshua Angrist
• Charles Bidwell
• James Samuel Coleman
• Gene V Glass
• Eric Hanushek
• James Heckman
• Larry Hedges
• Richard Murnane
• Andrew C. Porter
• Stephen Raudenbush
• Diane Ravitch
• Keith Stanovich

Educational research associations

• American Education Research Association
• British Educational Research Association
• Canadian Society for the Study of Education
• All India Association for Educational Research

Educational research centres and institutes

• National Foundation for Educational Research
• Labour India Educational Research Centre
• Wisconsin Center for Education Research
• Srishti School of Art, Design and Technology, Bangalore
• New Teacher Center at the University of California, Santa Cruz
• Wisconsin Center for the Advancement of Postsecondary Education
• The ECRA Institute - Advancing Knowledge Through Research
• Brookings Institution Brown Center on Education
• Thomas B. Fordham Foundation Institute
• Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory
• International Institute for Educational Planning
• WestEd

See also

• Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT)
• Education policy
• Educational evaluation
• Sociology of education
• Policy analysis

External links

• Best Evidence Encyclopedia - Johns Hopkins University
• Educational Research Service
• Institute of Education Sciences (U.S. Department of Education)
• National Foundation for Educational Research (UK)
• Teacher Training Resource Bank
• Educational Evidence Portal
• Is Educational Intervention Research on the Decline?
• The Teaching & Learning Research Programme
• WestEd
• Free Education Research