Background Currently, one of the most difficult problems facing students, teachers and their parents in educational settings is the high and growing incidence of bullying. A plethora of materials has been developed to assist people to deal with bullying but a review of the literature reveals that most approaches are didactic in nature. That is they take the teacher’s, parent’s or designer’s (ex...

Conventional regression analysis is typically used in educational research. Usually such an analysis implicitly assumes that a common set of regression parameter estimates captures the population characteristics represented in the sample. In some situations, however, this implicit assumption may not be realistic, and the sample may contain several subpopulations such as high math achievers and ...

Some people become social psychologists because they want to change the world, and others enter the field because they are captivated by theoretical issues and basic research. The social activist depends on basic research, and the basic researcher often tries to extend theory and research into the real world. The trade-offs between basic and applied research are particularly salient in the area...

The technological and social success of the natural sciences—particularly the physical sciences, biology and geology—during the 19th and 20th centuries has led to an intriguing consequence: the expansion of rules, modes of discourse and philosophical perspectives from the natural sciences into other discourses and forms of life. Academic psychology’s long love affair with the modernist program ...

Educational technology research has moved through several stages or “ages”, focusing at the beginning on the content to be learned, then on the format of instructional messages and, finally on the interaction between computers and students. The present paper reviews the research in technology-based learning environments in order to give both a historical perspective on educational technology re...

Clinical and translational research extends basic science research into the clinical realm, bringing the latest advances and potential treatments to the patients who need them. The Brown School of Public Health offers a number of educational programs that trains physicians and researchers in these research methods. The goal of these programs is to help students develop an independent research c...

In this AMEE Guide, we consider the design and development of self-administered surveys, commonly called questionnaires. Questionnaires are widely employed in medical education research. Unfortunately, the processes used to develop such questionnaires vary in quality and lack consistent, rigorous standards. Consequently, the quality of the questionnaires used in medical education research is hi...

A powerful way of improving one’s memory for material is to be tested on that material. Tests enhance later retention more than additional study of the material, even when tests are given without feedback. This surprising phenomenon is called the testing effect, and although it has been studied by cognitive psychologists sporadically over the years, today there is a renewed effort to learn why ...