A Follow-Up Note on Prescriptive Statements in Nonintervention Research Studies

Autor/inn/en	Shaw, Shana M.; Walls, Stephen M.; Dacy, Breana Sylvester; Levin, Joel R.; Robinson, Daniel H.
Titel	A Follow-Up Note on Prescriptive Statements in Nonintervention Research Studies
Quelle	In: Journal of Educational Psychology, 102 (2010) 4, S.982-988 (7 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0022-0663
DOI	10.1037/a0020924
Schlagwörter	Educational Research; Journal Articles; Repetition; Language Usage; Educational Researchers + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Bildungsforschung; Pädagogische Forschung; Journal article; Zeitschriftenaufsatz; Wiederholung; Sprachgebrauch; Erziehungswissenschaftler; Erziehungswissenschaftlerin
Abstract	Robinson, Levin, Thomas, Pituch, and Vaughn (2007) examined 74 articles reporting nonintervention studies (i.e., studies with no researcher-manipulated variables) that appeared in 5 educational journals in 1994. Of these articles, 22 contained prescriptive statements (e.g., if teachers or students did X, then student outcome Y would result). In the present study, we examined 243 journal articles published between 1995 and 2005 that cited any of the 22 earlier studies and found that (a) 25 articles (10%) repeated the prescriptive statement and (b) 411 subsequent articles between 2005 and mid-2008 cited the 25 articles that contained repeated prescriptions, with 1 article alone cited 132 times. Thus, recommendations based on nonintervention research were found, to some extent, to be perpetuated by educational researchers. Implications of these findings for educational researchers and consumers are discussed, as well as future directions for this type of research. (Contains 3 tables and 2 footnotes.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10