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Journal ArticleThe American psychologist · January 2022
In this editorial, the author gives voice to three principles that he hopes will influence the articles that appear in American Psychologist: The scholarship should be rigorous, it should attend to both basic and applied considerations, and authors ...
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Journal ArticleEducational Psychology · January 1, 2021
This research synthesis examined the impact of grades, comments, and no performance feedback on academic motivation and achievement in elementary and secondary school. Four meta-analyses were conducted, with two each exploring the impact of (a) grades vers ...
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Journal ArticleThe American psychologist · October 2018
In this reply to Rossiter (2018), we note that the goal of developing Journal Article Reporting Standards has been to specify the kinds of information that should be provided to the readers of scientific articles in order to allow maximal understanding of ...
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Journal ArticleThe American psychologist · October 2018
Reports an error in "Journal article reporting standards for quantitative research in psychology: The APA Publications and Communications Board task force report" by Mark Appelbaum, Harris Cooper, Rex B. Kline, Evan Mayo-Wilson, Arthur M. Nezu and Stephen ...
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Journal ArticleThe American psychologist · January 2018
Following a review of extant reporting standards for scientific publication, and reviewing 10 years of experience since publication of the first set of reporting standards by the American Psychological Association (APA; APA Publications and Communications ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Educational Psychology · November 1, 2017
The "assessment for learning" movement in education has increased attention to self-grading and peer-grading practices in primary and secondary schools. This research synthesis examined several questions pertaining to the use of self-grading and peer-gradi ...
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Book · 2017
The Fifth Edition of Harris Cooper's bestselling Research Synthesis and Meta-Analysis: A Step-by-Step Approach offers practical advice on how to conduct a synthesis of research in the social, behavioral, and health sciences. The book is written in plain la ...
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Book · January 25, 2016
In this informative and straightforward guide, author Harris Cooper goes beyond the proper treatment of human research subjects to examine frequently neglected ethical issues that arise after the subjects have left. He teaches students and researchers how ...
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Journal ArticleResearch synthesis methods · March 2015
A complete description of the literature search, including the criteria used for the inclusion of reports after they have been located, used in a research synthesis or meta-analysis is critical if subsequent researchers are to accurately evaluate and repro ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Educational Psychology · November 1, 2013
In this study, we meta-analyzed empirical research of the effectiveness of intelligent tutoring systems (ITS) on K-12 students' mathematical learning. A total of 26 reports containing 34 independent samples met study inclusion criteria. The reports appeare ...
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Journal ArticleThe American psychologist · September 2012
In the past two decades, a new form of scholarship has appeared in which researchers present an overview of previously conducted research syntheses on the same topic. In these efforts, research syntheses are the principal units of evidence. Overviews of re ...
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Book · March 15, 2012
The three-volume APA Handbook of Research Methods in Psychology features descriptions of many techniques that psychologists and others have developed to help them pursue a shared understanding of why humans think, feel, and behave the way they do.
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Chapter · January 2011
A research synthesis focuses on empirical studies and attempts to summarize past research by drawing overall conclusions from separate studies that address the same or related hypotheses. The research synthesist’s goal is “to present the state of knowledge ...
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Book · December 1, 2010
Reporting Research in Psychology provides practical guidance on understanding and implementing journal article reporting standards (JARS) and meta-analyses reporting standards (MARS). Described for the first time in the sixth edition of the Publication Man ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Educational Psychology · November 1, 2010
This investigation examined the effects of providing choices among homework assignments on motivation and subsequent academic performance. Students were randomly assigned within classrooms either to receive a choice of homework options or to be assigned an ...
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Journal ArticlePsychosom Med · April 2010
OBJECTIVES: To assess the effects of aerobic exercise training on neurocognitive performance. Although the effects of exercise on neurocognition have been the subject of several previous reviews and meta-analyses, they have been hampered by methodological ...
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Journal ArticleResearch synthesis methods · January 2010
Like all forms of empirical inquiry, research syntheses can be carried out in ways that lead to more or less valid inferences about the phenomenon under study. This synthesis of syntheses (a) examined the methods employed in the syntheses of the effects of ...
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Journal ArticleReview of Educational Research · January 1, 2010
A meta-analysis found that attending full-day (or all-day) kindergarten had a positive association with academic achievement (compared to half-day kindergarten) equal to about one quarter standard deviation at the end of the kindergarten year. But the asso ...
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Journal ArticleReview of Educational Research · January 1, 2010
Attention has been directed toward extended school time as a measure to improve academic achievement. The school year and day length have varied over time and across localities depending on the particular needs of the community. Proponents argue that exten ...
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Journal ArticlePsychological Methods · June 1, 2009
The authors describe the relative benefits of conducting meta-analyses with (a) individual participant data (IPD) gathered from the constituent studies and (b) aggregated data (AD), or the group-level statistics (in particular, effect sizes) that appear in ...
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Book · May 7, 2009
Offering practical advice on how to conduct a synthesis of research in the social, behavioral, and medical sciences, the Fourth Edition of Harris Cooper bestselling text is invaluable to both first-time literature reviewers and experts looking for lucid di ...
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Book · February 5, 2009
When the first edition of The Handbook of Research Synthesis was published in 1994, it quickly became the definitive reference for researchers conducting meta-analyses of existing research in both the social and biological sciences. In this fully revised s ...
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Journal ArticleAmerican Psychologist · December 1, 2008
In anticipation of the impending revision of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, APA's Publications and Communications Board formed the Working Group on Journal Article Reporting Standards (JARS) and charged it to provide the ...
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Journal ArticleChild Development Perspectives · December 1, 2008
Researchers often describe the quantitative effects of interventions using terms related to their magnitude (e.g., large, small) and practical impact (e.g., promising, significant). This article describes some of these efforts. It suggests that providing s ...
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Chapter · August 27, 2008
As the volume of primary research across all fields of social science continues to grow at rapid rates, research synthesis has become more important today than at any other time in history. With the development of metaanalysis, a set of procedures for summ ...
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Journal ArticlePsychological Methods · June 1, 2008
Assessments of studies meant to evaluate the effectiveness of interventions, programs, and policies can serve an important role in the interpretation of research results. However, evidence suggests that available quality assessment tools have poor measurem ...
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Journal ArticlePsychological Bulletin · March 1, 2008
A meta-analysis of 41 studies examined the effect of choice on intrinsic motivation and related outcomes in a variety of settings with both child and adult samples. Results indicated that providing choice enhanced intrinsic motivation, effort, task perform ...
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Journal ArticleReview of Educational Research · January 1, 2008
New emphasis is being placed on the importance of parent involvement in children's education. In a synthesis of research on the effects of parent involvement in homework, a meta-analysis of 14 studies that manipulated parent training for homework involveme ...
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Other · January 2007
This occasional paper introduces the methods of research synthesis and meta-analysis to researchers and consumers of research in the field of adult learning and literacy. To begin, the first section of the paper defines key terms and offers a brief history ...
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Book · November 10, 2006
Does homework work? Homework is the cause of more friction between school and home than any other aspect of education and becomes the prime battlefield when schools, families, and communities view one another as adversaries. This comprehensive third editio ...
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Journal ArticleReview of Educational Research · January 1, 2006
In this article, research conducted in the United States since 1987 on the effects of homework is summarized. Studies are grouped into four research designs. The authors found that all studies, regardless of type, had design flaws. However, both within and ...
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Journal ArticleTheory into Practice · June 1, 2004
It is common for students to have difficulty completing homework in a timely and accurate manner. Many school districts and organizations offer homework hotlines to help students complete assignments. However, educators lack a clear description of what is ...
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Journal ArticleEducational Psychologist · March 1, 2004
There has been extensive debate among scholars and practitioners concerning whether self-beliefs influence academic achievement. To address this question, findings of longitudinal studies investigating the relation between self-beliefs and achievement were ...
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Journal ArticleThe Department of Education’s What Works Clearinghouse Study Design and Implementation Assessment Device: Version 1.0 · 2003Open AccessCite
Journal ArticlePsychological bulletin · January 1, 2003
Do people behave differently when they are lying compared with when they are telling the truth? The combined results of 1,338 estimates of 158 cues to deception are reported. Results show that in some ways, liars are less forthcoming than truth tellers, an ...
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Journal ArticleNursing Research · January 1, 2003
BACKGROUND: In meta-analysis, researchers combine the results of individual studies to arrive at cumulative conclusions. Meta-analysts sometimes include "grey literature" in their evidential base, which includes unpublished studies and studies published ou ...
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Journal ArticleReview of Educational Research · January 1, 2003
This review synthesizes studies of the effects of modifying the academic calendar in Grades K-12 to do away with the long summer break while not increasing the length of the school year. The synthesis indicated that the quality of evidence on modified cale ...
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Journal ArticleAmerican Journal of Community Psychology · December 1, 2002
We used meta-analysis to review 55 evaluations of the effects of mentoring programs on youth. Overall, findings provide evidence of only a modest or small benefit of program participation for the average youth. Program effects are enhanced significantly, h ...
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Journal ArticleEvaluation and the Health Professions · February 28, 2002
Science is supposed to be cumulative, but scientists only rarely cumulate evidence scientifically. This means that users of research evidence have to cope with a plethora of reports of individual studies with no systematic attempt made to present new resul ...
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Journal ArticleEducational Psychologist · January 1, 2002
The ways students spend their out-of-school hours can affect their achievement. We present a theoretical analysis of this process. We describe out-of-school activities along two primary dimensions: (a) the extent to which they are related to academic mater ...
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Journal ArticleAnnals of Behavioral Medicine · January 1, 2002
Objectives: This review applied meta-analytic procedures to integrate primary research findings that test interventions to increase activity among aging adults. Methods: We performed extensive literature searching strategies and located published and unpub ...
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Journal ArticleEducational Leadership · April 1, 2001
Research on the effects of homework suggests that it is beneficial as long as teachers use their knowledge of developmental levels to guide policies and expectations. ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Experimental Education · January 1, 2001
This study was the first to test a model of the influence of homework on classroom performance using a sample of elementary school students. A total of 28 teachers in Grades 2 and 4 took part in the study, along with 428 students and parents. The authors u ...
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Journal ArticleEducational Psychologist · January 1, 2001
The article begins with a presentation of reasons for the minimal influence of homework research, and educational research in general, on policy and practice. We propose that the practical use of research is hampered by the complexity of real-world setting ...
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Book · February 8, 2000
Summer schools serve multiple purposes for students, families, educators, and communities. The current demand for summer programs is driven by changes in American families and by calls for an educational system that is competitive globally and embodies hig ...
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Journal ArticleContemporary Educational Psychology · January 1, 2000
Parents (n = 709) were surveyed about involvement in their child's homework. A factor analysis revealed three dimensions of homework involvement similar to those found in more general studies of parenting style. These dimensions are autonomy support, direc ...
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Journal ArticleContemporary Educational Psychology · January 1, 2000
Teacher expectancies can have an impact on students’ academic achievement. These expectancies can be based on diverse student characteristics, only one of which is past academic performance. The present study investigated three student individual differenc ...
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Journal ArticleSocial Psychology of Education · January 1, 1999
Four explanations were tested for why the correlation between homework and achievement is weaker in elementary school than secondary school. Eighty-two teachers answered questions about their homework practices, and their responses were related to their st ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Educational Psychology · January 1, 1999
Four hundred twenty-four students in Grades 6 through 12 and 1 parent of each completed a questionnaire concerning student participation in 5 types of after-school activities: homework, television viewing, extracurricular activities, other types of structu ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Educational Psychology · January 1, 1998
Students (n = 709), parents, and teachers (n = 82) completed a questionnaire concerning amount of homework assigned by teachers, portion of assignments completed by students, and attitudes about homework. Student achievement measures were also collected. W ...
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Journal ArticlePsychological Bulletin · January 1, 1998
This meta-analysis used 9 literature search strategies to examine 137 distinct personality constructs as correlates of subjective well-being (SWB). Personality was found to be equally predictive of life satisfaction, happiness, and positive affect, but sig ...
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Journal ArticlePsychological Methods · January 1, 1997
Publication bias, including prejudice against the null hypothesis, and other biasing filters may operate on researchers as well as journal editors and reviewers. A survey asked 33 psychology researchers to describe the fate of 159 studies approved by their ...
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Journal ArticlePersonality and Social Psychology Bulletin · January 1, 1997
An overview discusses (a) the importance of rape attitudes, (b) the major rape attitude measures, and (c) the applicability of four theoretical frameworks of hostility toward women to rape attitude maintenance. Findings from 72 studies of rape attitudes an ...
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Journal ArticlePersonality and Social Psychology Review · January 1, 1997
A meta-analysis was conducted of research on the relation between judges' accuracy at detecting deception and their confidence in their judgments. A total of 18 independent samples revealed an average weighted accuracy-confidence correlation of .04, a rela ...
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Journal ArticleReview of Educational Research · January 1, 1996
A review of 39 studies indicated that achievement test scores decline over summer vacation. The results of the 13 most recent studies were combined using meta-analytic procedures. The meta-analysis indicated that the summer loss equaled about one month on ...
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Journal ArticleReview of Educational Research · January 1, 1995
We examine Graham’s (1995) concerns about meta-analysis regarding (a) the use of poor-quality studies and (b) an overemphasis on quantitative comparisons of substantively disparate literatures. First, many meta-analysts eschew making questionable global ju ...
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Journal ArticleReview of Educational Research · January 1, 1995
A box score review conducted by Graham (1994) concluded that no difference existed between Blacks and Whites on measures of need for achievement. A meta-analysis reported in this article using the same research base revealed reliable and complex race diffe ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Experimental Education · January 1, 1995
In two studies, the authors examined teachers’ academic expectations for students who differed by (a) racial group (Anglo-American vs. African American), (b) gender, (c) SES, (d) parental structure (2-parent vs. mother-only families), and (e) whether or no ...
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Book · September 15, 1994
Social science research often yields conflicting results: Does juvenile delinquent rehabilitation work? Is teenage pregnancy prevention effective? In an effort to improve the value of research for shaping social policy, social scientists are increasingly e ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Learning Disabilities · January 1, 1994
The literature on homework for students with learning disabilities is reviewed. First, a summary of Cooper's (1989a) synthesis of research on homework for students without disabilities is presented, including (a) a definition of homework, (b) a model of th ...
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Journal ArticlePersonality and Individual Differences · January 1, 1992
Social activity has been identified as one of the most consistent predictors of peoples' subjective reports of happiness. Recent research has examined factors that influence this relationship, including personality moderators and distinctions among types o ...
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Journal ArticlePsychological Bulletin · January 1, 1992
Combined significance tests (combined p values) and tests of the weighted mean effect size are both used to combine information across studies in meta-analysis. This article compares a combined significance test (the Stouffer test) with a test based on the ...
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Journal ArticlePersonality and Social Psychology Bulletin · October 1991
Researchers examining personality moderators of experimenter expectancy effects have focused on five hypotheses. Experimenters with stronger interpersonal control orientations, more positively evaluated interpersonal interaction styles, and greater ...
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Journal ArticlePersonality and Social Psychology Bulletin · June 1991
Among the many topics considered by meta-analysts, one that has received relatively little attention is the statistical integration of multivariate outcome data. This article focuses on a procedure proposed by Kaiser that has been used to integrate ...
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Journal ArticlePersonality and Social Psychology Bulletin · June 1991
An examination of the frequency with which meta-analyses appear in the sub disciplines of psychology reveals that educational psychology and psychotherapy have produced the most meta-analyses, with social psychology not far behind. Several concerns ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Personality · January 1, 1991
ABSTRACT In this study we examined 15 personality and demographic differences between psychology students who took part in experiments at different times of the semester and different times of the day. In general, few significant relations were found and t ...
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Chapter · June 28, 1990
In a meta-analysis prepared especially for this volume, a statistician and a psychologist review the existing literature on aphasia treatment. ...
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Journal ArticlePsychological Bulletin · January 1, 1990
This review used quantitative and qualitative techniques to integrate the alcohol and aggression literature. The primary purpose of the review was to determine if a causal relation exists between alcohol and aggression. The main meta-analysis included 30 e ...
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Book · February 1989
"Homework has been a popular topic among education critics and would-be school reformers in recent years. Comparisons of American schooling practices with those of Europe or Japan frequently conclude that American students do not do enough homework, and ca ...
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Journal ArticleEducational Psychologist · January 1, 1989
Chapter 1 compensatory programs are designed to help educate low-achieving students from low-income families. One effect of the programs is that they reduce the instructor-to-student ratio in Chapter 1 classrooms. Reduced ratios mean compensatory education ...
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Journal ArticleKnowledge · January 1, 1989
Three influences on the outcomes of literature searches undertaken as part of integrative research reviews were examined: (1) the degree of expertise of the searcher; (2) the amount of information available (i.e., keywords, bibliographics, abstracts), and ...
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Journal ArticleEducational Leadership · 1989
The debate over whether homework serves a useful purpose is presented. Recent studies show that grade level has a dramatic influence on homework's effectiveness and that homework is less effective than in-class study. ...
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Journal ArticleKnowledge in Society · March 1, 1988
A taxonomy of literature reviews in education and psychology is presented. The taxonomy categorizes reviews according to: (a) focus; (b) goal; (c) perspective; (d) coverage; (e) organization; and (f) audience. The seven winners of the American Educational ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Personality and Social Psychology · January 1, 1988
We used both quantitative and descriptive procedures to summarize the results of studies examining personality moderators of interpersonal expectancy effects. Five hypotheses associated with this research were identified. Three of these hypotheses specify ...
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Journal ArticlePsychological Bulletin · January 1, 1987
A number of previous reviews of studies evaluating the effectiveness of family therapy have varied in their conclusions. This review is the first attempt at an integrated statistical analysis of family therapy effectiveness research. Family therapy was fou ...
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Journal ArticleKnowledge · January 1, 1986
A survey was conducted of 57 authors of recently published integrative research reviews in psychology and education. The survey concerned (a) the authors' background, (b) literature coverage goals, (c) literature searching strategies, and (d) citation prac ...
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Journal ArticleBasic and Applied Social Psychology · January 1, 1986
Professional teachers' attributions for the performance of six students who varied in social class (middle vs. lower), race (white vs. Asian-American), and gender were compared. Teachers provided open-ended responses to questions soliciting the causes of s ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Educational Psychology · April 1, 1984
Asked 25 White elementary school teachers to predict the academic grades and occupational attainment of 6 students: a middle-class White boy; a middle-class White girl; a lower-class White boy; a lower-class White girl; a middle-class Asian boy; and a midd ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Applied Developmental Psychology · January 1, 1984
The relationship of interpersonal trust and locus of control expectancies to amounts of television viewing and viewing preferences were examined among children in grades five through eight. Age and sex differences in viewing times, preferences, and viewing ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Personality and Social Psychology · February 1, 1983
A literature review on the relationship between locus of control (LOC) and academic achievement revealed that more internal beliefs are associated with greater academic achievement and that the magnitude of this relation is small to medium. Characteristics ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Educational Research · January 1, 1983
The relationships between television viewing behavior and school achievement were examined in a sample of fifth through eighth grade children. Results suggest that in this sample: A) children whose parents set rules for watching television did better in sc ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Educational Psychology · August 1, 1982
13 3rd-6th grade teachers provided reading-expectation measures of their students. These measures were compared to the students' January and May scores on the Reading Comprehension subtest of the Iowa Test of Basic Skills and the Mastery Reading subtest of ...
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Journal ArticlePersonality and Social Psychology Bulletin · March 1981
The research paradigm characteristics of studies in introductory social psychology texts were examined. Two chapters covering each of five topic areas (altruism, aggression, attitude change, attraction, and conformity) were chosen from nine of the ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Personality and Social Psychology · March 1, 1981
Conducted a statistical combination on past research examining gender differences in the locus of control beliefs of elementary school children. The review revealed that 235 females tended to score more internally than 200 males in total- and failure-outco ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Personality and Social Psychology · January 1, 1981
Discusses 3 issues in applying and interpreting effect-size (ES) estimation in psychological research. First, criteria for choosing an appropriate ES metric and the advisability of adopting a single ES (PV, or the percent of shared variance) for all resear ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Educational Psychology · June 1, 1980
Examined classroom interaction patterns between male and female pupils perceived by their teachers to be either high or low achievers. Observational data were collected in 16 3rd-, 4th-, and 5th-grade classrooms at 3 distinct times in the school year. Thre ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Educational Psychology · June 1, 1980
A teacher's perception of control over interactions with pupils has been suggested as a possible mediator of the expectation communication process. The present study tested some predictions based on this line of reasoning, with both between- and within-cla ...
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Journal ArticleMotivation and Emotion · December 1, 1979
The psychological construct of desirability of control was related to several theoretical statements (e.g., Kelley, 1971; White, 1959) and areas of current research (e.g., Glass & Singer, 1972; Deci, 1975) in psychology. A scale designed to measure individ ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Educational Psychology · June 1, 1979
Examined the effects of record-card-type information on performance expectations, using 124 university students. It was found that expectations based solely on preobservational information (i.e., standardized tests, previous teachers, family, and physical ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Educational Psychology · April 1, 1979
Replies to W.-U. Meyer's criticisms of the methodology of the present authors' study of teacher performance expectations and reinforcement behavior. Several counter-arguments are presented, and an integrative interpretation of the conflicting feedback lite ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Personality and Social Psychology · January 1, 1979
Compares traditional (literary) reviews of research in social psychology with a statistical approach. It is concluded on both abstract and practical grounds that adoption of the statistical approach would lead to theoretical progress for the research area ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Educational Psychology · August 1, 1977
Attribution theory predicts that the more personally responsible an actor is held for an act, the greater the use of reinforcement feedback. R. Rosenthal (1974) predicts high-expectation students receive more reinforcement than other students. In the prese ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Educational Psychology · August 1, 1977
Conducted 3 experiments with 104 children in kindergarten, 1st, and 2nd grade to test hypotheses derived from the proposition that teachers criticize low-expectation students in order to control their personal reinforcement schedules. Results show the foll ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Educational Psychology · April 1, 1975
Studied the perceived locus of control, expected academic performance, and relative importance of 5 causal factors (ability, effort, luck, task difficulty, and quality of instruction) in the academic performance of a stimulus student. Both the race (Black ...
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