1st Edition
World Yearbook of Education 2019 Comparative Methodology in the Era of Big Data and Global Networks
Digital methodologies, new forms of data visualization and computer-based learning and assessment are creating new challenges as well as opportunities for scholars in educational research. The World Yearbook of Education 2019 explores this highly relevant topic, opening a new discussion about the various conceptual and methodological challenges and opportunities in contemporary educational research.
This volume explores contemporary methods of inquiry, with chapters organized around four topics of enduring interest in this field: impacts, patterns, relations and contexts.
The World Yearbook of Education 2019 comprises contributions from internationally renowned scholars exploring novel concepts and methodologies in grappling with contemporary empirical phenomena in educational research. Vital questions such as how we understand the technological developments that are creating new possibilities for and demands on education, and how we make sense of complex cases that cut across multiple nations, are discussed.
This newest addition to the prestigious World Yearbook of Education series provides a fascinating read for scholars in the fields of education policy and comparative education. It is not only a useful resource for educational researchers and policy makers examining new trends and emerging issues, but would be of interest to graduate students exploring innovative methodologies, particularly in the study of education and education policy.
Chapter 1
Big Data and Even Bigger Consequences
Radhika Gorur
Sam Sellar
Gita Steiner-Khamsi
Part 1 Impacts
Randomized Control Trials: League Leader in the Hierarchy of Evidence?
Gita Steiner-Khamsi
Chapter 2
The Strengths and Shortcomings of Randomized Controlled Trials (RCTs): Reflections from REAP’s Experiences in China
Prashant Loyalka
Chapter 3
Randomized Control Trials: Limitations for Explaining and Improving Learning Outcomes
Moses Oketch
Part 2 Patterns
In Search of Patterns: With Enough Data, Do the Numbers Speak for Themselves?
Radhika Gorur
Chapter 4
Intimate Data Infrastructure: Emerging Comparative Methods of Predictive Analytics and Psycho-informatics
Ben Williamson
Chapter 5
Politicized Data and Spatial Methods: Generating Understanding of Contemporary Educational Policy Environments and Interventions
Christopher A. Lubinski
Priya G. LaLonde
Chapter 6
Rethinking Cause and Effect: Analyzing Economic Growth and PISA Scores Over a Period of 15 Years
Yariv Feniger
Michael Atia
Part 3 Relations
Global Education Policy in Evolving Network Societies
Sam Sellar
Chapter 7
The Value of Network Analysis for the Study of Global Education Policy: Key Concepts and Methods
Francine Menashy
Antoni Verger
Chapter 8
Cartographies of the Digital Governance of Education
Paolo Landri
Chapter 9
Big Data and New Social Relations in Higher Education: Academia.edu, Google Scholar and ResearchGate
Janja Komljenovic
Part 4 Context
Contextualizing "Context"
Radhika Gorur
Gita Steiner-Khamsi
Chapter 10
Comparing Platforms and the New Value Economy in the Academy
Susan L. Robertson
Chapter 11
Rethinking the Concept of "Context" in Comparative Research
Lesley Bartlett
Frances Vavrus
Chapter 12
Making and mobilizing contexts in policy and research
Nelli Piattoeva
Anni Klutasa
Olli Suominen
Biography
Radhika Gorur is Senior Lecturer, Deakin University, Australia, and a Director of the Laboratory of International Assessment Studies.
Sam Sellar is Reader in Education Studies at Manchester Metropolitan University and a Director of the Laboratory of International Assessment Studies.
Gita Steiner-Khamsi is Professor of Comparative and International Education at Teachers College, Columbia University in New York.
