The lure of statistics for educational researchers

Educational Theory

Volumn 61, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 621-632

  Labaree, David F ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 83655197387     PISSN: 00132004     EISSN: 17415446     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1741-5446.2011.00424.x     Document Type: Article

References (18)

1. Alfred W. Crosby, The Measure of Reality: Quantification and Western Society, 1250-1600 (New York: Cambridge University Press Quoted in , 1997), 240.
2. Theodore M. Porter, The Rise of Statistical Thinking, 1820-1900 (Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1986)
3. Theodore M. Porter, Trust in Numbers: The Pursuit of Objectivity in Science and Public Life (Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1995).
4. Porter, The Rise of Statistical Thinking, ix225.
5. Daniel R. Headrick, When Information Came of Age: Technologies of Knowledge in the Age of Reason and Revolution, 1700-1850 (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000) 195-197. , 78 87.
6. Porter, Trust in Numbers, xi 228.
7. Stephen J. Gould, The Mismeasure of Man (New York: Norton, 1981)
8. Nicholas Lemann, The Big Test: The Secret History of the American Meritocracy (New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2000).
9. In this discussion, I draw on the work of Tony Becher, Academic Tribes and Territories: Intellectual Enquiry and the Cultures of Disciplines (Buckingham, UK: Open University Press, 1989), and on my own application of his analysis to education (see David F. Labaree, The Trouble with Ed Schools [New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press chapter 4)., 2004],
10. Abraham Kaplan, The Conduct of Inquiry: Methodology for Behavioral Science (San Francisco: Chandler, 1964).
11. Porter, Trust in Numbers, 216.
12. David F. Labaree, The Making of an American High School: The Credentials Market and the Central High School of Philadelphia, 1838-1939 (New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 1988).
13. David F. Labaree, "The People's College: A Sociological Analysis of Philadelphia's Central High School, 1838-1939" (PhD diss., University of Pennsylvania, 1983).
14. James C. Scott, Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed (New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 1998).
15. Oxford English Dictionary (London: Oxford University Press, 2002).
16. Headrick, When Information Came of Age, 60.
17. Crosby, The Measure of Reality, 236-237.
18. Mercator projection map.