I am teaching a new graduate level course on theory of science and research design with a group of colleagues.
In order to find a fair distribution of methods lessons, I'd like to refer to a good review/overview of the proportions/percentages of methods used in papers published in psychology and/or education research.
For instance, what is the proportion/percentages of qualitative vs. quantitative vs. mixed methods papers (respectively), and/or particular methodologies within these larger paradigms/families?
This would seem like a reasonable starting point for discussion.
Where can I find such an overview?
Foundations of Behavioral Research
by: Fred N. Kerlinger, Howard B. Lee (1999)
Methods in Behavioral Research12th Edition
By Paul Cozby and Scott Bates Copyright: 2015
Thanks Béatrice. Those look like textbooks. Do they include overviews of the percentage of studies published, that use each kind of methodology
(sorry if my question wasn't clear)
Good question. I don't have an answer (sorry!), but the answer would likely depend on what is defined at psych and/or education, and what is research (e.g., should the population be all "studies" published in peer reviewed journals or all studies that IRBs are done for (so include student projects). I have worked in education and psych, and the methods appear to me as very different (e.g., the large test data in education versus the data created in most psycology faculty's labs).
As far as what to teach, I think that may be a different question. The answer to your question might help, but ... ..
@Daniel: True. I mainly need it to make sure that different angles are all being given their fair amount of "airtime" in class, and nothing is being ignored e.g. due to local tradition at our university.
It's for an educational psychology programme, so that domain is of greatest practical interest to me, but any such analysis would do. I assume that psychology in general is more quantitative than education, but I'm getting very curious about the general distributions.
Gör en sökning på metodböcker så ser du hur många % som är kvalitativa.
Educational psychology in the US includes the people doing the standardized test construction and analyses, so they are well trained in measurement (their main society here is NCME and their conferences have tons of IRT discussion), but I think "educational psychology" is broader in Europe. Conference abstracts might be a good sample???
WiWith PsychInfo database, you can narrow and caculate the number of results with a category Methodolhodology.
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