Foundation Research within Education

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This paper is based on the research article "Class Size in Primary School: Perceptions of Headteachers, Chairs of Governors, Teachers and Parents" by N. Bennett (1996), which helps clarify the perceptions of attitudes within education. The author points out that Bennett demonstrates the way models of research used within education do not resolve many of the critical debates over how information can be successfully transferred from educator to student. This paper draws upon the basic arguments made by Bennett to define and describe the gap between educational myths and findings in foundation research methods within education.

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"The increasingly standardized themes within Western education create the sense that researchers and activists within education have identified those traits that are successful in terms of enhancing the educational and cognitive developmental progress of students active in the system. Focuses on class size, standardized testing, and forms of classroom materials suggest that there are strategies which maximize effective conveyance of education from educator to student. Yet in assessing foundation research methods used within education, this image of widely-accepted and successful teaching strategies is not sustained. There is significant debate concerning which aspects of education are fundamental to student success."

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