A Critical Reflection on the Experimental Method for Planning Research: Testing the Added Value of PSS in a Controlled Environment
A Critical Reflection on the Experimental Method for Planning Research: Testing the Added Value of PSS in a Controlled Environment
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对规划研究实验方法的批判性思考：在受控环境中测试 PSS 的附加值
DOI：
10.1080/02697459.2015.1023077
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发表时间：
2015
影响因子：
1.6
通讯作者：
M. Brömmelstroet
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作者：
M. Brömmelstroet
为了规划研究成功地为规划从业者生成可用的机制，需要更多的假设检验研究设计。目前，学术界似乎更倾向于通过观察实践或从理论研究来生成假说。这种方法在产生规划知识的研究中尤其常见。在本文中，我绘制了几个允许这种假设检验的相关研究设计，并讨论了它们在规划研究中的可用性。然后，我特别关注实验方法，因为它是一种有前途的设计，可以为规划实践生成情景机制。我描述和分析了一项研究，该研究旨在开发关于知识技术对规划质量的附加值的机制。详细介绍了两个连续的实验，并讨论了该实验方法在规划研究中的可用性。反思这些实验表明，这种研究设计的主要优点是它允许为证伪创造理想的环境(这在规划实践中几乎是不可能的。主要的弱点是研究结果的生态有效性，特别是当研究是在学生中进行的时候。
For planning research to successfully generate usable mechanisms for planning practitioners more hypothesis-testing research designs are needed. Currently, the academic field seems more geared toward generating hypotheses, either by observing practice or from theoretical studies. This approach is especially common in research that generates knowledge of planning. In this paper, I map several relevant research designs that allow for such hypothesis testing and discuss their usability in planning research. Then, I particularly focus on the experimental method as a promising design for generating contextualized mechanisms for planning practice. I describe and analyze a study that aimed to develop mechanisms about the added value of knowledge technologies for the quality of planning. Two consecutive experiments are described in detail, after which the usability of the experimental method for planning research is discussed. Reflecting on these experiments indicate that the main strength of this research design is that it allows to create ideal circumstances for falsification (which is virtually impossible in planning practices. The main weakness is the ecological validity of findings, especially when the research is executed with students.