A Follow-Up Note on Prescriptive Statements in Nonintervention Research Studies

Journal of Educational Psychology

Volumn 102, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 982-988

  Shaw, Shana M ^a   Walls, Stephen M ^b   Dacy, Breana Sylvester ^a   Levin, Joel R ^c   Robinson, Daniel H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Causation; Educational research; Nonintervention research; Prescriptive statements

Indexed keywords

EID: 78649695147     PISSN: 00220663     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0020924     Document Type: Article

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