Creating a Useful Science of Education

Dr. R. Barker Bausell was the first educational researcher to demonstrate the learning superiority of both tutoring and small group instruction when the curriculum, teacher differences, instructional time, and student differences were rigorously controlled. He served as a biostatistician, research methodologist, and the Director of Research in two departments within the University of Maryland over a 35+ year career and was the founding editor/editor-in-chief of the peer reviewed, Evaluation and the Health Profession for 33 of those years. He has authored 12 other books including: Conducting Meaningful Experiments: 40 Steps to Becoming a Scientist, Too Simple to Fail: A Case for Educational Change, and Snake Oil Science: The Truth about Complementary and Alternative Medicine.

Introduction
Chapter One: The Importance of Developing Instructional Products
Chapter Two: Digital and Developmental Instructional Research
Chapter Three: Decision Making in Product Development Research
Chapter Four: Chapter Four: Assessment Products that Might Contribute to a Useful Science of Education
Chapter Five: Research that Might Improve Learning despite the Traditional Classroom
Chapter Six: Research Conducted in the Most Important Instructional Environment (And the
Most Difficult in which to Intervene)
Chapter Seven: Curriculum Research
Chapter Eight: A Big Science Experiment that Might Jumpstart the Science’s Infrastructure
Concluding Thoughts
References