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Desire to Find Causal Relations: Response to Robinson and Wainer's (2023) Reflection on the Field - "It's Just an Observation"
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Cody Ding – Educational Psychology Review, 2024
In the article "It's Just an Observation," Robinson and Wainer (Educational Psychology Review 35, Robinson, D., & Wainer, H. (2023). It's just an observation. Educational Psychology Review, 35(83), Published online: 14 August, 2023) lamented that educational psychology is moving toward the dark side of the quality continuum, with…
Descriptors: Journal Articles, Educational Psychology, Quality Assurance, Barriers
The Use of Concrete Examples Enhances the Learning of Abstract Concepts: A Replication Study
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Alexia Micallef; Philip M. Newton – Teaching of Psychology, 2024
Background: Prior research suggests that the teaching of abstract concepts can be enhanced by the use of concrete examples, but there are few controlled studies. Objective: To replicate key findings from experiment one from Rawson et al. (2015). Method: Experiment participants studied definitions of abstract concepts from psychology, either with…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Instructional Effectiveness, Psychology, Concept Formation
Design-Based SE Estimation for Hájek Estimators of Causal Effects in Stratified, Clustered RCTs
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Xinhe Wang; Ben B. Hansen – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2024
Background: Clustered randomized controlled trials are commonly used to evaluate the effectiveness of treatments. Frequently, stratified or paired designs are adopted in practice. Fogarty (2018) studied variance estimators for stratified and not clustered experiments and Schochet et. al. (2022) studied that for stratified, clustered RCTs with…
Descriptors: Causal Models, Randomized Controlled Trials, Computation, Probability