Is 'Education' Becoming Irrelevant in our Research?

Is Marine Conservation Science Becoming Irrelevant to Policy Makers?

The use of science in policy-making has declined dramatically around the world. One of the most obvious examples of scientific neglect is the refusal of many U.S. politicians to accept anthropogenic climate change despite overwhelming scientific evidence to the contrary. While over 97% of scientists recognize the global threat posed by human climate forcing (Oreskes, 2004a; Doran and Zimmerman,...

Our Irrelevant Right to Health Care

Is Task-Irrelevant Learning Really Task-Irrelevant?

In the present study we address the question of whether the learning of task-irrelevant stimuli found in the paradigm of task-irrelevant learning (TIPL) [1]-[9] is truly task irrelevant. To test the hypothesis that associations that are beneficial to task-performance may develop between the task-relevant and task-irrelevant stimuli, or the task-responses and the task-irrelevant stimuli, we desi...

How is impact factor impacting our research?

The impact factor (IF) of an journal is a measure reflecting the average number of citations to recent articles published in the journal. It is frequently used as a proxy for the relative importance of a journal within its field, with journals with higher impact factors deemed to be more important than those with lower ones. However it is not a perfect metric and has its own limitations. Journa...

What Is "Good" Education Research?

education research. I readily grant that some number of my misgivings are based more on my personal experiences than on a thorough study of the state of education research. I have read enough and talked enough to colleagues around the country to be confident that I am not totally offbase. Yet my principal aim is to provoke thought and conversation about our work as education researchers, not to...