education research is fundamentally different from health research in that in health you are experimenting on physiological systems, while in education you are experimenting on humans as a whole--ration/irrational, decision-making, value-holding humans. this raises a host of problems that mean you can't simply transfer the medical model to educaiton.
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Luke Rodgers commented on Do we need to change how economics is taught? on August 15, 2008, 10:12 AM
education research is fundamentally different from health research in that in health you are experimenting on physiological systems, while in education you are experimenting on humans as a whole--ration/irrational, decision-making, value-holding humans. this raises a host of problems that mean you can't simply transfer the medical model to educaiton.