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Educational Research: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Statistics Educational Research VOLUME5 Aims&Scope Freedom of inquiry in educational research can no longer be taken for granted. Narrow definitions of what constitutes ‘scientific’ research, funding criteria that enforceparticularresearchmethods,andpolicydecisionprocessesthatignoreany research that is not narrowly utilitarian, in many countries, create a context that discouragesscholarshipofamorespeculative,exploratory,orcriticalsort. In this series, internationally leading scholars in philosophy and history of edu- cation engage in discourse that is sophisticated and nuanced for understanding contemporarydebates.Thussocialresearch,andthereforeeducationalresearch,is again focused on the distinctive nature of what it studies: a social activity where questions of meaning and value must be addressed, and where interpretation and judgmentplayacrucialrole. Thiseducationalresearchtakesintoaccountthehistoricalandculturalcontextand brings clarity to what actually constitutes science in this area. The timely issues that are addressed in this series bear witness to the belief that educational theory cannot help but go beyond a limited conception of empirical educational research toprovidearealunderstandingofeducationasahumanpractice.Theysurpassthe rathersimplecause-andeffectrhetoricandthustransgressthepictureofperforma- tivity that currently keeps much of the talk about education captive. The authors areunitedinthebeliefthat‘thereisaplacewithinthesocialsciences ingeneral’, and within the discipline of education in particular, for ‘foundational’ approaches thatenablethesystematicstudyofeducationalpracticefromadiscipline-orientated approach. · Paul Smeyers Marc Depaepe Editors Educational Research: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Statistics 123 Editors Prof.PaulSmeyers Prof.MarcDepaepe UniversiteitGent KatholiekeUniversiteitLeuven FaculteitPsychologieenPedagogische CampusKortrijk Wetenschappen SubfaculteitPsychologieen Dunantlaan1 Pedagogische 9000Gent Wetenschappen Belgium Sabbelaan53 [email protected] 8500Kortrijk Belgium [email protected] ISBN978-90-481-9872-6 e-ISBN978-90-481-9873-3 DOI10.1007/978-90-481-9873-3 SpringerDordrechtHeidelbergLondonNewYork LibraryofCongressControlNumber:2010936458 ©SpringerScience+BusinessMediaB.V.2010 Nopartofthisworkmaybereproduced,storedinaretrievalsystem,ortransmittedinanyformorby anymeans,electronic,mechanical,photocopying,microfilming,recordingorotherwise,withoutwritten permissionfromthePublisher,withtheexceptionofanymaterialsuppliedspecificallyforthepurpose ofbeingenteredandexecutedonacomputersystem,forexclusiveusebythepurchaserofthework. Printedonacid-freepaper SpringerispartofSpringerScience+BusinessMedia(www.springer.com) Earlier Volumes in this Series EducationalResearch:Why‘WhatWorks’Doesn’tWork PaulSmeyersandMarcDepaepe 2006,VI,195p.,Hardcover ISBN978-1-4020-5307-8 EducationalResearch:NetworksandTechnologies PaulSmeyersandMarcDepaepe 2007,VI,228p.,Hardcover ISBN978-1-4020-6612-2 EducationalResearch:theEducationalizationofSocialProblems PaulSmeyersandMarcDepaepe 2008,VI,247p.,Hardcover ISBN978-1-4020-9722-5 EducationalResearch:Proofs,Arguments,andOtherReasonings PaulSmeyersandMarcDepaepe 2009,VI,199p.,Hardcove ISBN978-90-481-3248-5 Contents 1 RepresentationorHardEvidence?TheUseofStatistics inEducationandEducationalResearch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 PaulSmeyersandMarcDepaepe 2 TheLureofStatisticsforEducationalResearchers . . . . . . . . . 13 DavidF.Labaree 3 Dazzling Statistics? On the University Expansion inFlandersandtheNeedforResearchintotheHistory ofEducationthatTranscendsQuantifyingSociology . . . . . . . . 27 MarcDepaepe 4 ChildMaltreatmentintheLast50Years:TheUseofStatistics. . . 43 JeroenJ.H.Dekker 5 Constructing Social Unity and Presenting Clear Predictions: The Promise of Public Opinion Pollsters toMeasureandEducateSociety. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 NorbertGrube 6 n = 1: The Science and Art of the Single Case inEducationalResearch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 DavidBridges 7 To Frame the Unframable: Quantifying Irregular Migrants’Presence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97 EliasHemelsoet 8 EuropeanCitizenshipandEvidence-BasedHappiness . . . . . . . 115 NaomiHodgson 9 The Persuasive Power of Figures and the Aesthetics oftheDirtyBackyardsofStatisticsinEducationalResearch . . . . 129 UlrikeStadler-AltmannandEdwinKeiner vii viii Contents 10 TheGood,theBeautifulandtheLiterate:MakingStatistics AccessibleforAction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145 JeanPaulVanBendegem,KarenFrançois, andKathleenCoessens 11 Statistics and the Inference to the Best Explanation: LivingWithoutComplexity? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161 PaulSmeyers 12 Performativity,StatisticsandBloodyWords . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177 IanMunday 13 ABubble for theSpirit Level: Metricophilia, Rhetoric andPhilosophy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189 RichardSmith 14 CallingtoAccount . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205 PaulStandish AbouttheAuthors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215 AuthorIndex . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219 SubjectIndex . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223
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