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Richardson, John T. E. – Educational Psychology Review, 2017
This commentary begins by summarizing the five contributions to this special issue and briefly recapping the background to the topic of student learning in higher education. Narrative and systematic reviews are compared, and the relative value of different bibliographic databases in the context of systematic reviews is assessed. The importance of…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Learning, College Students, Comparative Analysis
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Richardson, John T. E. – Educational Research Review, 2013
Research has been carried out on students' epistemological development in higher education for at least 50 years. Researchers on both sides of the Atlantic have converged on accounts that describe students' epistemological development in terms of a sequence or hierarchy of qualitatively distinct stages or positions. The rich qualitative data…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Epistemology, Student Development, Measurement Techniques
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Braun, Edith; Woodley, Alan; Richardson, John T. E.; Leidner, Bernhard – Educational Research Review, 2012
This paper provides a theoretical review of self-rated competences questionnaires. This topic is influenced by the ongoing world-wide reform of higher education, which has led to a focus on the learner outcomes of higher education. Consequently, questionnaires on self-rated competences have increasingly been employed. However, self-ratings are…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Questionnaires, Competence, Educational Change
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Richardson, John T. E. – Educational Research Review, 2011
Eta squared measures the proportion of the total variance in a dependent variable that is associated with the membership of different groups defined by an independent variable. Partial eta squared is a similar measure in which the effects of other independent variables and interactions are partialled out. The development of these measures is…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Research Methodology, Predictor Variables, Effect Size
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Richardson, John T. E. – Educational Research Review, 2007
Characterising the relationship between participants' scores on two different questionnaires is a common problem in educational research. The complement of the statistic known as Wilks' lambda measures the amount of variance shared between the scores obtained by the same group of participants on two sets of variables. (1 - lambda) is symmetric, in…
Descriptors: Evaluation Research, Educational Research, Questionnaires, Scores
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Richardson, John T. E. – Educational Psychology Review, 2004
Students' scores on questionnaires concerning their approaches to studying in higher education exhibit reasonable stability over time, moderate convergent validity with their scores on other questionnaires, and reasonable levels of discriminating power and criterion-related validity. Nevertheless, the internal consistency of the constituent scales…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Content Validity, Construct Validity, Student Evaluation