Education Research in a New Data Environment: Special Issue Introduction

Introduction to special issue: ethical dilemmas in social network research

Toward the beginning of the article that leads off this special issue, Rebecca Goolsby recalls a short but intensive burst of messages on the SOCNET listserve1 concerning the ethics of military funding of social-networks research. One of the postings, from Marya Doerfel, a young faculty member at Rutgers, particularly struck me.2 An excerpt follows (reprinted here with the permission of the mes...

Introduction to Special Issue

Although recent frameworks for test validation have emphasized utilization as a key component (e.g. Bachman & Palmer, 2010; Chapelle, 2012; Kane, 1992), what happens in the sometimes messy contexts where assessments are carried out is often not documented. This is perhaps because test developers are more focused on defining and operationalizing test constructs than on issues of implementation. ...

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Figured Worlds and Education: An Introduction to the Special Issue

Identity and Self are concepts that are not only constituted by the labels—‘‘smart girl’’, ‘‘delinquent’’, ‘‘incompetent’’, or ‘‘beloved teacher’’—that people place on themselves and others, especially in schools. Identity is also very much about how people come to understand themselves, how they come to ‘‘figure’’ who they are, through the ‘‘worlds’’ that they participate in and how they relat...

Special Issue Editor's Introduction

Welcome to this EJISDC special issue co-edited with Devinder Thapa and Robert Davison. The special issue comprises seven selected papers from the IFIP Working Group 9.4 12 th International Conference on the Social Implications of Computers in Developing Countries held in Ocho Rios, Jamaica during May 2013. The selected papers have been extended, independently reviewed and represent insights and...