TY - JOUR
T1 - Dissertation research in school psychology
T2 - Changes in topics and methodology over the past 25 years
AU - Lekwa, Adam
AU - Ysseldyke, James E
PY - 2010/1
Y1 - 2010/1
N2 - Eighty school psychology programs offering training at the doctoral level were contacted with a request for lists of authors, titles, and abstracts of dissertations completed between the years 2000 and 2007. Titles and abstracts from 1119 dissertations were reviewed to assess the interests and experiences of new researchers and practitioners in school psychology and to compare recent trends to findings of earlier surveys of school psychology dissertations conducted more than two decades ago. Results indicated that social issues, instruction, intervention, and assessment continue to be popular areas of research, whereas topics of cognitive or personality research have been nearly abandoned. Many fewer dissertations in this sample used experimental designs, though an increase was observed in the use of single-subject designs.
AB - Eighty school psychology programs offering training at the doctoral level were contacted with a request for lists of authors, titles, and abstracts of dissertations completed between the years 2000 and 2007. Titles and abstracts from 1119 dissertations were reviewed to assess the interests and experiences of new researchers and practitioners in school psychology and to compare recent trends to findings of earlier surveys of school psychology dissertations conducted more than two decades ago. Results indicated that social issues, instruction, intervention, and assessment continue to be popular areas of research, whereas topics of cognitive or personality research have been nearly abandoned. Many fewer dissertations in this sample used experimental designs, though an increase was observed in the use of single-subject designs.
KW - Dissertation
KW - Research trends
KW - Social psychology
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U2 - 10.1080/15377900903386047
DO - 10.1080/15377900903386047
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:77951440912
SN - 1537-7903
VL - 26
SP - 17
EP - 37
JO - Journal of Applied School Psychology
JF - Journal of Applied School Psychology
IS - 1
ER -