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Edci 816 Educational Research Quantitative Article Critique Assignment
Edci 816 Educational Research Quantitative Article Critique Assignment
Edci 816 Educational Research Quantitative Article Critique Assignment
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programs to teach and nurture in order to produce counselors who have personalities and
knowledge to provide effective service to their clients.
5.) How did the authors collect their data (3 points)?
In order to collect data they used both the Ethical and Legal Issues in Counseling Assessment
and the Washington University Sentence Completion Test.
The Ethical and Legal Issues in Counseling Assessment is a fifty question multiple choice
assessment which is used to measure a graduate counseling students content knowledge in
the 10 domains of Ethical and Legal Knowledge.
The Washington University Sentence Completion Test used in this study consisted of 18
sentence stems for the students to complete. The test also included different stems for which
included different language based on the gender of the participants. The participants
responses were evaluated on the meaning of the answers they provided. An algorithm was
then used to evaluate the students placement on the Loevingers Social-cognitive
Development scheme, which evaluates the students Social-Cognitive Development in all
stages of data collection.
6.) What statistical analyses were used in this study (3 points)?
The statistical analysis tools used in the study were the Statistical Package for the Social
Sciences and the Analysis of Covariance.
7.) What were the primary findings of the study (3 points)?
The primary findings of the study showed that individuals who scored at high levels of
social-cognitive development at the beginning of the process had a significant increase in
their ethical and legal knowledge as they participated over the three time intervals even
though the learners level of SDC did not increase. It would seem that these counseling
students would possess the desirable traits and level of ELK retention to practice counseling
with more success than their peers who had lower levels of SDC because of the increase in
their knowledge and retention of ELK.
The research also found differences of these attributes between the two programs of
counseling programs. Counseling students on the School Counseling track learned more than
the students on the Mental Health and Marriage and Family Counseling tracks. These
differences in scores could be attributed to any of a number of extraneous variables present
in each class.
8.) Providing supportive evidence and using your research method knowledge, what is your
overall critique of this study in terms of its research-worthy credibility (5 points)?
I really enjoyed reading this study. The researchers did an extensive review of research and
identified an area of the subject that had not been investigated. It is important to review
pedagogy in order to measure its effectiveness in providing real world skills to learners as
they go from acquisition of knowledge into practice. Since counseling involves many
EDCEP 816, Instructor Hodge
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