Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!psuvax1!psuvm!ASUACAD!ATGVG From: ATGVG@ASUACAD.BITNET (Gene Glass) Newsgroups: bit.listserv.edpolyan Subject: Paper archived Message-ID: Date: 7 Feb 90 18:06:32 GMT Sender: Professionals and Students Discussing Education Policy Analysis Reply-To: Professionals and Students Discussing Education Policy Analysis Lines: 32 Approved: NETNEWS@PSUVM Gateway A new paper has been archived on this list. It is described below. The paper is about 875 lines long. For those interested, it can be obtained by sending a mail item, a NOTE or an interactive (TELL) message to LISTSERV at ASUACAD, the sole contents of the message being as follows: GET ZIMILES FEB1990. THE ADORATION OF "HARD DATA": A CASE STUDY OF DATA FETISHISM IN THE EVALUATION OF INFANT DAY CARE HERBERT ZIMILES COLLEGE OF EDUCATION ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY "This article examines the manner in which a substantive issue--the growing reliance on early education and day care as a means of providing nonmaternal child care--is studied and evaluated by the prevailing data-centered mode of child development and educational research. It explores some of the ramifications of the data-centered approach both for the kind of knowledge that it generates and the manner in which it has affected the relation between research and practice. In so doing, it makes concrete reference to a recent issue of the Early Childhood Research Quarterly devoted to the evaluation of infant day care, and uses this issue as a point of departure." _______________________________________________________________________ GENE V GLASS ATGVG AT ASUACAD COLLEGE OF EDUCATION 602-965-2692 ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY