Read the Following: Complex Problem: "Should Schools Adopt Computer-Assisted Education

Multiple Choice

Read the following: Complex Problem: "Should schools adopt computer-assisted education for young children?"
Article Summaries
Article 1: Psychology (Learning Theory) .
The National Research Council (NRC) is the research arm of the National Academy of Sciences, a private, nonprofit scholarly society that advises the federal government in scientific and technical matters. Its study "How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School" argues that computer-assisted education can enhance learning (Bradsford, Brown, & Cocking, 1999) . The supportive evidence used by the NRC includes references to state-of-the art learning software and several experimental projects such as GLOBE, which gathered data from students in over 2,000 schools in 34 countries (Bradsford et al., 1999) .
Article 2: Education.
The Alliance for Childhood, a partnership of individuals and organizations, issued a report, "Fool's Gold: A Critical Look at Computers in Childhood", that subsequently appeared in a leading education journal. The report argues that computer assisted education does not benefit young children. This view, a matter of heated debate within the profession, was nevertheless included in the Education Department's own 1999 study of nine troubled schools in high poverty areas, as well as extensive references to studies by leading education experts, including Stanford Professor (Education) Larry Cuban, theorist John Dewey, Austrian innovator Rudolf Steiner, and MIT Professor Sherry Turkel (Alliance for Childhood, 1999) .
These insights demonstrate how:
1) disciplines or profession amass and present evidence that reflects its preferred research methodology and the kind of evidence that it considers reliable
2) experts omit evidence that they consider outside the scope of their discipline or profession. "Facts," then, are not always what they appear to be. They reflect only what the discipline and its community of experts are interested in.
3) it is easy to be seduced by the data when you happen to agree with the author's position on the issue.
"4) you must be aware of an author's discipline, analyze carefully the kind of evidence the author privileges, and know how the author uses that evidence.
Which of the statements above may be inferred from the article summaries above informed by your reading of CH12 ?"

A) Statements 1, 2, and 3 are correct.
B) Statements 1 and 4 are correct.
C) All the statements are correct.
D) None of the statements is correct.