It's Just an Observation

Autor/inn/en	Robinson, Daniel H.; Wainer, Howard
Titel	It's Just an Observation
Quelle	In: Educational Psychology Review, 35 (2023) 3, Artikel 83Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Robinson, Daniel H.)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1040-726X
DOI	10.1007/s10648-023-09804-7
Schlagwörter	Educational Psychology; Educational Research; Intervention; Statistical Analysis; Trend Analysis; Observation; Research Methodology + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Erziehungspsychologie; Pädagogische Psychologie; Bildungsforschung; Pädagogische Forschung; Statistische Analyse; Trendanalyse; Beobachtung; Research method; Forschungsmethode
Abstract	To date, there have been four responses (Dumas & Edelsbrunner, "Educational Psychology Review," 35, 48, 2023; Grosz, "Educational Psychology Review," 35, 57, 2023; Mayer, "Educational Psychology Review," 35, 64, 2023; Zitzmann et al., "Educational Psychology Review," 35, 65, 2023) to the Brady et al. ("Educational Psychology Review," 35, 36-37, 2023) observational study showing that the field of educational psychology has experienced a continued (1) decline in the proportion of empirical articles that include intervention and experimental studies, an (2) increase in the proportion that include observational studies, and an (3) increase in the proportion of the latter that include recommendations for practice. Educational psychology is continuing its movement toward the dark side of the quality continuum. There are fewer intervention studies and more armchair research--"analyzing" large datasets from the comfort of offices. More alarming is the increase in the tendency for authors to infer causality from correlation and offer recommendations based on shaky ground. The statistical models that flood our journals are casual, NOT causal. They are connected only through a vowel movement that is stinking up our field. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01