The Research Team Executive Group:

  • Stephen Gorard
  • Stephen Gorard
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Publication date
January 2002

Abstract

www.cardiff.ac.uk/socsi/capacity 2Warranting research claims from non-experimental evidence This paper contains a preliminary consideration of the nature and role of warrants for research conclusions in educational research. It focuses on warrants for conclusions drawn from findings based on non-experimental evidence. The paper describes some of the standard non-experimental designs, and their need for a warrant in the form of a logical and persuasive link between the evidence produced and the conclusions drawn (with appropriate qualifications and caveats). It describes social scientific warrants, and suggests that the elimination of plausible rival alternative explanations for the evidence is a key approach (and one that is independent of ...

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