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Researcher ID

Michael Simonson0000-0003-3478-7879

Document Type

Article

Publication Title

Quarterly Review of Distance Education

ISSN

1528-3518

Publication Date

1-1-2009

Abstract

[...] the most fundamental and most important characteristic of a profession is that the skills involved are founded upon a body of intellectual theory and research. (p. 8) The second quote is by Campbell and Stanley, who, in their classic 1963 monograph, described the experiment as the only means for settling disputes regarding educational practice, as the only way of verifying educational improvements, and as the only way of establishing a cumulative tradition in which improvements can be introduced without the danger of a faddish discard of old wisdom in favor of inferior novelties, (p. 2) The final quote is the controversial statement from the Review of Educational Research made by Richard Clark in 1983:

Volume

10

Issue

4

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