Private Data -- The Real Story: A Huge Problem with Education Research

dc.creator	R. James Milgram
dc.date	2012-12-01T00:00:00Z
dc.date.accessioned	2015-08-12T11:18:13Z
dc.date.available	2015-08-12T11:18:13Z
dc.identifier	2150-6477
dc.identifier	https://doaj.org/article/9d448ac14b5341b6adea018232e42890
dc.identifier.uri	http://evidence.thinkportal.org/handle/123456789/26751
dc.description	A very influential paper on improving math outcomes was published in 2008. The authors refused to divulge their data claiming that agreements with the schools and Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act rules (FERPA) prevented it.● It turns out that this is not true.● The claimed legal foundations do not say what these authors said they do, this this is a widespread misconception among education researchers.When we found the identities of the schools by other means, serious problems with the conclusions of the article were quickly revealed.● The 2008 paper was far from unique in this respect.● There are many papers that have had enormous influences on K-12 mathematics curricula, and could not be independently verified because the authors refused to reveal their data.In this article we describe how we were able to find the real data for the 2008 paper, and point out the legal constraints that should make it very difficult for authors of such papers to withhold their data in the future.
dc.language	English
dc.publisher	Nonpartisan Education Review
dc.relation	http://www.nonpartisaneducation.org/Review/Essays/v8n5.pdf
dc.relation	https://doaj.org/toc/2150-6477
dc.source	Nonpartisan Education Review , Vol 8, Iss 5, Pp 1-8 (2012)
dc.subject	mathematics education
dc.subject	education research
dc.subject	censorship
dc.subject	student achievement
dc.subject	education policy
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
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dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.title	Private Data -- The Real Story: A Huge Problem with Education Research
dc.type	article