1st Edition
World Yearbook of Education 2019 Comparative Methodology in the Era of Big Data and Global Networks
Chapter 1
Big Data and Even Bigger Consequences
Radhika Gorur
Sam Sellar
Gita Steiner-Khamsi
Part 1 Impacts
Randomized Control Trials: League Leader in the Hierarchy of Evidence?
Gita Steiner-Khamsi
Chapter 2
The Strengths and Shortcomings of Randomized Controlled Trials (RCTs): Reflections from REAP’s Experiences in China
Prashant Loyalka
Chapter 3
Randomized Control Trials: Limitations for Explaining and Improving Learning Outcomes
Moses Oketch
Part 2 Patterns
In Search of Patterns: With Enough Data, Do the Numbers Speak for Themselves?
Radhika Gorur
Chapter 4
Intimate Data Infrastructure: Emerging Comparative Methods of Predictive Analytics and Psycho-informatics
Ben Williamson
Chapter 5
Politicized Data and Spatial Methods: Generating Understanding of Contemporary Educational Policy Environments and Interventions
Christopher A. Lubinski
Priya G. LaLonde
Chapter 6
Rethinking Cause and Effect: Analyzing Economic Growth and PISA Scores Over a Period of 15 Years
Yariv Feniger
Michael Atia
Part 3 Relations
Global Education Policy in Evolving Network Societies
Sam Sellar
Chapter 7
The Value of Network Analysis for the Study of Global Education Policy: Key Concepts and Methods
Francine Menashy
Antoni Verger
Chapter 8
Cartographies of the Digital Governance of Education
Paolo Landri
Chapter 9
Big Data and New Social Relations in Higher Education: Academia.edu, Google Scholar and ResearchGate
Janja Komljenovic
Part 4 Context
Contextualizing "Context"
Radhika Gorur
Gita Steiner-Khamsi
Chapter 10
Comparing Platforms and the New Value Economy in the Academy
Susan L. Robertson
Chapter 11
Rethinking the Concept of "Context" in Comparative Research
Lesley Bartlett
Frances Vavrus
Chapter 12
Making and mobilizing contexts in policy and research
Nelli Piattoeva
Anni Klutasa
Olli Suominen
Biography
Radhika Gorur is Senior Lecturer, Deakin University, Australia, and a Director of the Laboratory of International Assessment Studies.
Sam Sellar is Reader in Education Studies at Manchester Metropolitan University and a Director of the Laboratory of International Assessment Studies.
Gita Steiner-Khamsi is Professor of Comparative and International Education at Teachers College, Columbia University in New York.
