Current issues and trends in practical research
Articles by Jeanne Ormrod
Jeanne Ormrod is a renowned educator and author in educational psychology with specializations in learning, cognition, and child development. Dr. Ormrod has published numerous research articles in the field and offers many insights for teacher educators. Explore posts by Jeanne Ormrod.
The expansion of research designs, methodologies, processes, and practices
Jeanne Ellis Ormrod
Researchers’ beliefs about legitimate and credible research designs, methodologies, processes, and practices have expanded in a great many ways since the 1970s, and I — who obtained my bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees in the 1970s — have observed the continual expansion over the past sever...
Common misconceptions about the nature of science and scientific research
Jeanne Ellis Ormrod
Even in graduate school, many students have misunderstandings about the nature of both science and scientific research. In this brief blog post, I hope to correct certain misconceptions my readers might have about these two concepts. What does true scientific research entail? In Chapter 1 of the b...
How researchers’ epistemic beliefs influence the quality of their work
Jeanne Ellis Ormrod
As we human beings learn new things every day, we all have ideas about what “knowledge” and “learning” are—ideas that are collectively known as epistemic beliefs. These beliefs typically include beliefs about many or all of the following: The certainty of knowledge: Whether knowledge is a fixed, un...
Action research
Jeanne Ellis Ormrod
In much of the 20th century, most researchers published results and conclusions with the hopes that other individuals would translate their findings into effective, “real-world” practices and interventions. In recent decades, however, many researchers have wanted applications of their findings to be...
Common practices in open science
Jeanne Ellis Ormrod
In recent years, researchers have increasingly advocated for open science (some scholars capitalize it as Open Science). The open science movement consists of several practices that make research reports more transparent, such that details regarding methodologies, collected data, and data analysis p...
