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Direct linkMakel, Matthew C.; Hodges, Jaret; Cook, Bryan G.; Plucker, Jonathan A. – Educational Researcher, 2021
Concerns about the conduct of research are pervasive in many fields, including education. In this preregistered study, we replicated and extended previous studies from other fields by asking education researchers about 10 questionable research practices and five open research practices. We asked them to estimate the prevalence of the practices in…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Research Methodology, Ethics, Research Problems
Cook, Bryan G.; Therrien, William J. – Behavioral Disorders, 2017
Researchers sometimes conduct a study and find that the predicted relation between variables did not exist or that the intervention did not have a positive impact on student outcomes; these are referred to as null findings because they fail to disconfirm the null hypothesis. Rather than consider such studies as failures and disregard the null…
Descriptors: Publications, Bias, Special Education, Educational Research
Johnson, Austin H.; Cook, Bryan G. – Exceptional Children, 2019
To draw informed conclusions from research studies, research consumers need full and accurate descriptions of study methods and procedures. Preregistration has been proposed as a means to clarify reporting of research methods and procedures, with the goal of reducing bias in research. However, preregistration has been applied primarily to research…
Descriptors: Research Problems, Bias, Research Reports, Experiments
Travers, Jason C.; Cook, Bryan G.; Therrien, William J.; Coyne, Michael D. – Remedial and Special Education, 2016
Replicating previously reported empirical research is a necessary aspect of an evidence-based field of special education, but little formal investigation into the prevalence of replication research in the special education research literature has been conducted. Various factors may explain the lack of attention to replication of special education…
Descriptors: Special Education, Replication (Evaluation), Intervention, Research Methodology
Cook, Bryan G. – Behavioral Disorders, 2016
Bias poses a significant threat to the validity of research findings as well as practices and policies based on research. Reforms to academic publishing have been proposed and implemented in other fields to address bias in research. In this paper I review some sources of bias in research, some proposed areas of reform in academic publishing (e.g.,…
Descriptors: Faculty Publishing, Educational Change, Behavior Disorders, Special Education
Cook, Bryan G. – Remedial and Special Education, 2014
Valid, scientific research is critical for ascertaining the effects of instructional techniques on learners with disabilities and for guiding effective special education practice and policy. Researchers in fields such as psychology and medicine have identified serious and widespread shortcomings in their research literatures related to replication…
Descriptors: Special Education, Educational Research, Bias, Replication (Evaluation)
