A Decade of Literacy Research in the "Journal of Educational Research".

Autor/inn/en	Knudson, Ruth E.; Theurer, Joan Leikam; Boyd-Batstone, Paul
Titel	A Decade of Literacy Research in the "Journal of Educational Research".
Quelle	(2002), (42 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Content Analysis; Elementary Education; Higher Education; Literacy; Research Methodology; Scholarly Journals; Scholarship + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Inhaltsanalyse; Elementarunterricht; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Alphabetisierung; Schreib- und Lesefähigkeit; Research method; Forschungsmethode; Scholarships; Stipendium
Abstract	A total of 378 articles were published in the "Journal of Educational Research" from 1990-1999. Ninety-seven (26%) focused on literacy. Information was categorized for each article with respect to authors' gender, multiple versus single authorship, study design, use of statistics, age of subjects, number of subjects, and kind of research. There was no significant trend by year for the number of articles published by sole vs. multiple authors or by men, women, or male/female co-authors. More than 70% of the articles had multiple authors. There was no significant trend by year for design of study, statistics used, or number of subjects in the study. There was, however, a trend away from applied research after 1996. There were no applied research studies published 1997-1999 while approximately one literacy-focused applied research article a year was published 1991-1996. There was also some movement away from studies with "n" larger than 1000 from 1995 through 1999. The total number of articles focused on literacy decreased from 1996. The average number of articles published with a literacy focus 1990-1995 was 12.38. The average number 1996-1999 was 5.75. With respect to design, approximately 50% of the articles published were experimental while 22% were correlational and 21% were descriptive. Approximately 36% of the articles used ANOVA, 20% used correlation including multiple regression, 17% used descriptive statistics including percentages and frequencies, and 13% used other multivariate techniques such as MANOVA. The remaining articles employed path analysis, M/ANOVA with multiple regression, Yates' algorithm, chi square, factor analysis, or no statistics (4%). Fifty-four percent of the articles had elementary school subjects, 15% high school subjects, 14% multiple-age subjects (often children and their parents and/or teachers), 5% middle school subjects, 4% college students, 5% other adults, and 2% no human subjects. (Contains 6 tables of data and 99 references.) (Author/RS)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC