A Post From Your School Psychologist: Cause and Effect
QUOTED: Causality is a basic assumption of science. Scientists set up experiments to determine causality in the physical world. Embedded within the scientific method and experiments is a hypothesis or several hypotheses about causal relationships. The scientific method is used to test the hypotheses.
In many ways, educators do this everyday: try to a new instructional technique, implement a novel invention, or create a behavior plan. Functional Behavioral Assessment, Response-To-Intervention, and Data-Based Decision Making are the scientific method wrapped up and re-packaged. Teachers are scientists. EVERYDAY!
I hadn't really thought about how school psychologists and teachers are scientists everyday. I'm a fan of keeping psychology scientific, so I like this idea! I am currently a grad student and we are learning about RTI all the time and it is scientific- implementing empirically based interventions and monitoring the effects so that we can say the intervention caused the results.
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