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The Incidence of "Causal" Statements in Teaching-and-Learning Research Journals

Daniel H. Robinson ; Joel R. Levin ; Greg D. Thomas ; Keenan A. Pituch ; Sharon Vaughn

American educational research journal, 2007-06-01, Vol.44 (2), p.400-413 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications

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Title:
The Incidence of "Causal" Statements in Teaching-and-Learning Research Journals
Author/Creator: Daniel H. Robinson ; Joel R. Levin ; Greg D. Thomas ; Keenan A. Pituch ; Sharon Vaughn
Publisher: Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications
Language: English
Subjects: Outcomes of education ; Teaching methods ; Intervention research ; Educational psychology ; Educational research ; Experimentation ; Research design ; Research studies ; Intervention studies ; Research methods ; Teaching, Learning, and Human Development ; Evaluation ; Scholarly periodicals ; Scholarly publishing ; Research ; Universities and colleges ; Authorship ; Studies ; School districts ; Teaching ; Learning ; Design ; Intervention ; Research & development--R&D ; Journals
Is Part Of: American educational research journal, 2007-06-01, Vol.44 (2), p.400-413
Description: The authors examined the methodologies of articles in teaching-and-learning research journals, published in 1994 and in 2004, and classified them as either intervention (based on researcher-manipulated variables) or nonintervention. Consistent with the findings of Hsieh et al., intervention research articles declined from 45% in 1994 to 33% in 2004. For nonintervention articles, the authors recorded the incidence of "causal" statements (e.g., if teachers/schools/parents did X, then student/child outcome Y would likely result). Nonintervention research articles containing causal statements increased from 34% in 1994 to 43% in 2004. It appears that at the same time intervention studies are becoming less prevalent in the teaching-and-learning research literature, researchers are more inclined to include causal statements in nonintervention studies.
Identifier: ISSN: 0002-8312
EISSN: 1935-1011
DOI: 10.3102/0002831207302174
CODEN: AECJAX

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