Friday, November 24, 2006

On research papers based on questionnaires

My second bad feeling about some papers is the use of students in questionnaires about learning method evaluation. My First Assumption is: students always lie. Participants' feedback is always too high. No one will ever tell you are completely wrong in doing your work, if you play a role hierarchically higher than every particiant's, as teacher role is, whatever pedagogical framework you actually use.

Corollary: do not base your research only on student-based questionnaires. And please provide a control group! This is sociological basics!

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