Past Events
April 2009
Mollie Villeret Davis Distinguished Lecture
Robert Horner, Alumni Knight Professor at The University of Oregon, discussed Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports on April 30. This presentation aims to bring together stakeholders from all areas of education (researchers, administrators, teachers, etc) to engage in a discussion on the state of the art in educational practice.
March 2009
Brown Bag
Dan Robinson, Associate Professor, Department of Educational Psychology and Director of the MCPER Dropout Prevention Institute, tackled the issue of research design and prescriptive conclusions on March 30. In The decline of experiments, the increase in prescriptive statements based on nonintervention research, and the lack of evidence supporting prescriptive statements in textbooks: An examination of the state of educational research, findings from a series of studies that examine the irony in recent calls for more scientifically-credible research and evidence-based practice when contrasted with actual trends in the field are discussed.
MCPER Distinguished Lecture
Joel Levin, Professor Emeritus at The University of Arizona, discussed Educational Intervention Research: Why We Must Build a More Scientifically Credible Mousetrap on March 9. Educational research comes in all varieties, many of which can stake their claims to legitimacy of purpose. For educational intervention research to be scientifically credible, however, it must adhere to a number of historically developed fundamental principles. In this talk, targeted primarily at novice intervention researchers, these principles are enumerated and illustrated in the context of both more familiar "large group" designs and less familiar "single-case" time-series designs.