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Reinhart, Alyssa L.; Haring, Samuel H.; Levin, Joel R.; Patall, Erika A.; Robinson, Daniel H. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2013
Two previous studies examining 5 empirical educational psychology research journals (Hsieh et al., 2005; Robinson, Levin, Thomas, Pituch, & Vaughn, 2007) found that in the 21-year period from 1983 to 2004, there was a decrease in intervention and randomized experimental research, whereas in the 10-year period from 1994 to 2004, there was an…
Descriptors: Research Methodology, Educational Psychology, Educational Researchers, Educational Research
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Shaw, Shana M.; Walls, Stephen M.; Dacy, Breana Sylvester; Levin, Joel R.; Robinson, Daniel H. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2010
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…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Journal Articles, Repetition, Language Usage
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Marley, Scott C.; Levin, Joel R. – Educational Psychology Review, 2011
A prescriptive statement is a recommendation that, if a course of action is taken, then a desirable outcome will likely occur. For example, in reading research recommending that teachers apply an intervention targeted at a specific reading skill to improve children's reading performance is a prescriptive statement. In our view, these statements…
Descriptors: Medical Research, Intervention, Reading Research, Credibility