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Gonzalez, Anna; Thomas, Julie; Green, Stephanie – Research in the Schools, 2021
"Methodologist" is more than a title. It is a professional identity. In this project, we three doctoral students in different stages of our training in educational research, measurement, and evaluation examine our liminality and the process of becoming methodologists through the discussion of methodological expertise, quality in…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Research Methodology, Consultants, Professional Identity
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Robinson, Cecil; Rose, Sage – Research in the Schools, 2010
One leading version of hope theory posits hope to be a general disposition for goal-directed agency and pathways thinking. Domain-specific hope theory suggests that hope operates within context and measures of hope should reflect that context. This study examined three measures of hope to test the predictive, construct, and convergent validity…
Descriptors: Validity, Construct Validity, Predictive Validity, Psychological Patterns
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Vuk, Jasna; Morse, David T. – Research in the Schools, 2009
In this study we observed college students' behavior on two self-tailored, multiple-choice exams. Self-tailoring was defined as an option to omit up to five items from being scored on an exam. Participants, 80 undergraduate college students enrolled in two sections of an educational psychology course, statistically significantly improved their…
Descriptors: College Students, Educational Psychology, Academic Achievement, Correlation