Policy recommendations from causal inference in physics education research

Sound educational policy recommendations require valid estimates of causal effects, but observational studies in physics education research sometimes have loosely specified causal hypotheses. The connections between the observational data and the explicit or implicit causal conclusions are sometimes...

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Autor principal:	M. B. Weissman
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Publicado:	American Physical Society 2021
Materias:	Special aspects of education LC8-6691 Physics QC1-999
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:31e381accaa8464eab2f4f6f3dafd7502021-12-02T17:24:27ZPolicy recommendations from causal inference in physics education research10.1103/PhysRevPhysEducRes.17.0201182469-9896https://doaj.org/article/31e381accaa8464eab2f4f6f3dafd7502021-09-01T00:00:00Zhttp://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevPhysEducRes.17.020118http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevPhysEducRes.17.020118https://doaj.org/toc/2469-9896Sound educational policy recommendations require valid estimates of causal effects, but observational studies in physics education research sometimes have loosely specified causal hypotheses. The connections between the observational data and the explicit or implicit causal conclusions are sometimes misstated. The link between the causal conclusions reached and the policy recommendations made is also sometimes loose. Causal graphs are used to illustrate these issues in several papers from Physical Review Physics Education Research. For example, the core causal conclusion of one paper rests entirely on the choice of a causal direction although an unstated plausible alternative gives an exactly equal fit to the data.M. B. WeissmanAmerican Physical SocietyarticleSpecial aspects of educationLC8-6691PhysicsQC1-999ENPhysical Review Physics Education Research, Vol 17, Iss 2, p 020118 (2021)
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Policy recommendations from causal inference in physics education research

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