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Theme 3: Evidence and Inference: Consistency and Variation Revisited
Theme 3: Evidence and Inference: Consistency and Variation Revisited
Pages 11-13
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The final session of the workshop was designed to take a step back from the specific issues of how federal agencies support science and how science can inform education practice, and to focus on the "first principles" of evidentiary and inferential reasoning. To help it deliberate about the scientific principles of education research, the committee assembled a pane} of scholars from a range of scientific disciplines and professions who provider!
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Several panelists emphasized the importance of making the inferential process publicly available to encourage scrutiny by He professional community. Subjecting claims to criticism and engaging in a clebate about the warrants for knowledge was explicitly identified by several panelists as an inclication of the health of the knowlecige-generating enterprise.
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He commented on the now well-known tension between controlled experiments and observational studies, identifying the relative strengths and weaknesses of each strategy. Legal practice and scholarship blend a variety of inferential techniques.
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