An Analysis of Social Studies Research over an Eight Year Period

Wallen, Norman E.; Fraenkel, Jack R.

doi:10.1080/00933104.1988.10505553

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To determine if actual practice was consistent with commonly recommended research methods and procedures, this study examined 130 studies reported over a 5-year period in three volumes of the Journal of Research in Science Teaching (JRST). The results were consistent with similar previous analyses (Shaver & Norton, 1980a& Norton, , 1980bWallen & Fraenkel, 1988a) and indicate that appropriate generalizations beyond the confines of the reported studies may be impossible for most (64%) of the JRST studies surveyed. The findings also show that replication studies, which could be employed to offset deficiencies in generalizability, were not commonly encountered (3%) in these 130 reports.

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“…The answers to the questions posed in this study are essentially the same as the answers arrived at when general educational research and social studies research were analyzed in previous studies (Shaver & Norton, 1980a, 1980bWallen & Fraenkel, 1988a, 1988b. For Question I , science education researchers do not typically select their samples randomly from accessible populations.…”

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“…A category evaluation sheet (Appendix) was developed similar to that used in studies by Shaver and Norton (1980a) and Wallen and Fraenkel (1988a). Having these studies as guides, the final category evaluation sheet included aspects of both coding sheets previously used and was therefore more inclusive than either.…”

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To determine if actual practice was consistent with commonly recommended research methods and procedures, this study examined 130 studies reported over a 5‐year period in three volumes of the Journal of Research in Science Teaching (JRST). The results were consistent with similar previous analyses (Shaver & Norton, 1980a, 1980b; Wallen & Fraenkel, 1988a) and indicate that appropriate generalizations beyond the confines of the reported studies may be impossible for most (64%) of the JRST studies surveyed. The findings also show that replication studies, which could be employed to offset deficiencies in generalizability, were not commonly encountered (3%) in these 130 reports. In addition, the study results indicate that many researchers (48%) do not properly restrict their conclusions based on the limits imposed by the accessible populations and samples used; nor do they typically provide possible alternative explanations for the outcomes obtained (76%). These findings prompt the following recommendations: 1. A greater awareness and use of replication as a check on generalizability should be encouraged by the science education community. 2. Clearly defined populations (target and accessible) and fully described samples warrant increased attention as report components from authors, reviewers, and editorial board members of JRST. 3. In light of the difficulties inherent in effecting random selection in educational settings, a greater emphasis should be placed on recognizing the limits that the underlying assumptions of inferential statistics place on research conclusions. The results of this study indicate that the methodological quality of published science education research should remain a concern for both practitioners and readers.

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A content analysis of research published in the Journal of Research in Science Teaching from 1985 through 1989

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“…These breakdown tables provide substantially more detailed information about the characteristics of our norming samples than is usually available (cf. Wallen & Fraenkel, 1988). The subcategory cells for Tables 3 and 4 are student sex, grade level, IQ level, race /ethnic origin, type of community, census region, family income level, and course type.…”

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Economic Attitudes of High School Students: New Norms for theSurvey on Economic Attitudes

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Walstad²

1988

Theory & Research in Social Education

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“…This study is a 'philosophical inquiry' in the foundation of social studies (Stanley 1985a;Wallen and Fraenkel 1988;Fullinwider 1991) which is one of the grounded theory research approaches in qualitative-interpretative tradition (Glasser and Strauss 1971). The primary source is 25 of 36 academics works of Somantri about aspects of ontology, methodology, and epistemology of social studies collected in an edited book entitled "Promoting Social Education Reform" (Supriadi and Mulyana 2001).…”

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An Epistemological Study on Somantri’s Thought about the Social Studies as a Synthetic Discipline

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This study analyses Somantri's thought about the epistemology of social studies as a scientific discipline. The Study is a qualitative-interpretive (philosophical inquiry) using his academic works as a primary source, and related expertise references as secondary sources selected by annotated bibliography and literature review techniques; then analyzed by a qualitative content analysis technique. The results of the study show, epistemologically, the social studies within Somantri's thought conceptualized as a synthetic discipline and an integrated educational program, a product of synergistic reengineering from two or more disciplines equivalent for the social studies purposes. The synthetic discipline is the nature, identity, and a culture of faculty and postgraduate of the social studies. It has four academic status namely 'advance knowledge', 'middle-studies', 'primary structure'; and 'integrated educational program' developed at all levels of the school and teachers' college.

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An Analysis of Social Studies Research over an Eight Year Period

Cited by 10 publications

References 14 publications

A content analysis of research published in the Journal of Research in Science Teaching from 1985 through 1989

A content analysis of research published in the Journal of Research in Science Teaching from 1985 through 1989

Economic Attitudes of High School Students: New Norms for theSurvey on Economic Attitudes

An Epistemological Study on Somantri’s Thought about the Social Studies as a Synthetic Discipline

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