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SUMMARY:Inaugural Lecture - The importance of number: the future of quanti
 tative methods in education research - Professor Anna Vignoles\, Universit
 y of Cambridge Faculty of Education
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CONTACT:Susannah Lacon
DESCRIPTION:No one can doubt the important role that quantitative research
  methods have played in education research\, particularly in our attempts 
 to evaluate education policy in a suitably rigorous manner. Certainly quan
 titative methods of analysis have an appeal to policy-makers because they 
 produce ‘hard numbers’ to inform the decisions governments need to mak
 e\, or at least to justify the ones that they want to make.\n\nAnna Vignol
 es discusses the historical development of\nquantitative methods in educat
 ion research and education\npolicy-making and illustrates how the potentia
 l of quantitative methods has been significantly enhanced by step changes 
 in the quantity and quality of data available. She argues that further imp
 rovements in the quality and usefulness of education research will be achi
 eved by the widespread adoption of mixed method\napproaches and that this 
 development will be as important as inter-disciplinary working to the futu
 re of education research.
LOCATION: Faculty of Education\, Donald McIntyre Building\, 184 Hills Road
 \, Cambridge\, CB2 8PQ\, GS5
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