Language Development of Children in Two Types of Rural Environments

Worbois, G. M.

doi:10.1080/00220973.1941.11010246

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“…To trace the sedimentation of Fisher's 0.05 in experimental education research, I collected all 0.05-based experimental articles published in JXE between 1932 and 1944. In doing so, I identified 25 articles: Hagman [52]; Wenger [53]; Lyon [54]; Stump [55]; Edgerton et al [27]; Gabel [29]; Stuit and Lapp [30]; Sells, Loftus, and Herbert [31]; Worbois [56]; Long and Welch [33]; Stewart [57]; Appel [58]; Dawe [59]; Worbois [60]; Morse and Chittenden [61]; Meshke [35]; Smith [37]; Goldfarb [62]; Hastings [63]; Tschechtelin [64]; Willits [65]; Thelen [66]; McNiel [67]; Patterson [68]; and Tsao [38]. Tsao [38], however, was excluded from the study, owing to my impression that, as a methodologist substantially concerned with the development and refinement of methods, he possessed a set of interests and a perspective that lay too far beyond the realm of education for his work to be considered a homogenous contribution to the collection [39,40].…”

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The Peter Effect in Early Experimental Education Research

Little

2003

Journal of Technical Writing and Communication

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One of the signatures of scientific writing is its ability to present the claims of science as if they were “untouched by human hands.” In the early years of experimental education, researchers achieved this by adopting a citational practice that led to the sedimentation of their cardinal method, the analysis of variance, and their standard for statistical significance, 0.05. This essentially divorces their statistical framework from its historical conditions of production. Researchers suppressed their own agency through the use of passive voice and nominalization. With their own agency out of the way, they imbued the methods, results, and presentational devices themselves with the active agency of the situation through the use of personification. Such a depiction creates the impression that the researchers and audience stand on equal epistemic ground as interested witnesses to the autonomous activity of a third party, the method, which churns out the brute facts of science.

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The Peter Effect in Early Experimental Education Research

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2003

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“…Language Development and Environmental Factors. Pertinent here is the investigation of the language growth of children in two types of rural environments by Worbois (196), who found that subjects selected from a group attending a consolidated rural school showed superior verbal ability when matched with another group from a one-room school in the same area. Word recognition, word fluency and basic language skills test scores were higher in each case in the consolidated school group of subjects.…”

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