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The Quality of Educational Research: A Perspective From Great Britain

In Great Britain, there has been considerable recent debate focusing on the quality of educational research. This article outlines one contribution to this debate (Tooley, 1998), which may provide lessons for parallel discussions in the United States and elsewhere. The article examines the background to the survey, its method, and a flavor of the report’s findings before examining some of its limitations and implications. The current debate in Britain began when David Hargreaves, Professor of Education at the University of Cambridge, announced in his Annual Lecture to the Teacher Training Agency that there is a considerable amount of