Evidence-Based Education and Its Implications for Research and Data Analytics with an Application to the Overeducation Literature

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Abstract

236Our society is rapidly changing, becoming more complex and diverse. This is also true for education. As a result, the demands made of education have increased as well. Many of the most important challenges in life are thought to be best addressed through education. The Dutch essayist Karel van het Reve has pointed out the contradiction in our thinking about education. Many of us believe that educational standards and educational practice used to be better in the past than they are now, yet we cherish the belief in progress or, as van het Reve (2003) puts it, "?schools and all the other things are always becoming better and that mankind will be better off five hundred years from now.”?.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication Data Analytics Applications in Education
EditorsJan Vanthienen, Kristof de Witte
PublisherCRC Press, Taylor & Frances Group
Chapter10
Pages233-257
Number of pages25
Edition1
ISBN (Print)978-1-4987-6927-3
Publication statusPublished - 25 Sept 2017

Publication series

SeriesData Analytics Application Series

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