This paper delineates the distinctive facets of the research university and further explores the features of scientific research. On this basis, it is established that the mission of the research university is to achieve knowledge creation and academic advances. With a comparison of the organizational framework between the general university and…

Uses data from a recent report by the National Research Council to suggest that nurturing and reinforcing a scientific culture in educational research is a critical task for promoting better research. Asserts that the development of a scientific culture rests with individual researchers, supported by leadership in their professional associations…

Addresses two issues from Feuer, Towne, and Shavelson's article, which examined scientific culture and educational research. Agrees that legislative mandates that give preference particular methodological approaches would be ill-informed and misdirected, recommending a mandate for rigorous peer review of federally funded work combined with funding…

Under the stewardship of the Department of Education, recent acts of Congress confuse the methods of science with the process of science, possibly doing great harm to scholarship in education. An otherwise exemplary National Research Council report to help clarify the nature of educational science fails to emphasize the complexity of scientific…

In response to a request by the Committee on Science and Technology, United States House of Representatives, this report analyzes how scientific research is funded at research universities in the United States, with a particular focus on how federal funding for research fits into the total finances of these institutions. Major sections of the…