Hi Tasha,
Psych Reports is "peer-reviewed" (usually by 2-3 reviewers) but a
manuscript will generally be published regardless of whether the author(s)
make suggested changes. I agree that it is a good general rule to warn
students about Psych Reports, but on the other hand some good articles
(that later get cited frequently) are published there. I've never
published there, but I have reviewed for them.
Bye, Dan Burns
At 09:24 AM 10/26/01 -0400, you wrote:
>I can't address your question, but as an undergrad, my professors warned me to
>never use any articles from psychological reports as it wasn't peer
>reviewed and
>was of very poor quality. i haven't forgotten this and tell my students
>the same
>thing. i would like to know if tipsters think this or if I've been wrong all
>these years?
>
>Ann Calhoun-Sauls wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I've assigned the excert from Rosenthal & Jacobson (1968) Teachers'
> > expectancies:Determinants of pupils' I.Q. gains. Psychological Reports, 19,
> > 115-118. that's reproduced in Pettijohn's Sources Notable Selections in
> > Psychology book. One of my better students e-mailed me a question about a
> > line he found particularly difficult to understand. While I think I know
> > what was meant from the context, I also found the sentence extremely
> > difficult and thought that it may have been misprinted. I''ve e-mailed the
> > student back with my interpretation of the section, but wanted to see
> if any
> > of you had any other input or perhaps even access to the original source.
> >
> > The sentence in question reads "Prior research on the unintentional
> > communication of expectancies in experimentally more carefully controlled
> > interactions suggests that this question will not be easily unanswered
> > (Rosenthal, in press)" The preceeding sentence was "The most important
> > question which remains is that which asks how a teacher's expectation
> > becomes translated into behavior in such a way as to elicit the expected
> > pupil behavior." These occur on page 171 in the Pettijohn book as the next
> > to the last paragraph of the selection.
> >
> > What I told my student is:
> >
> > The part of the sentence that reads "Prior research . . . interactions" and
> > the citation of "Rosenthal (in press)" means that Rosenthal had performed
> > another study in which he had observed how the teachers' interacted
> with the
> > students after being given expectations about their ability. The second
> part
> > of the sentence appears to simply mean that from that study Rosenthal had
> > not found any clear differences in how the teachers treated the
> students and
> > assumed that it would be hard to figure it out. I agree that the phrasing
> > is strange; it sounds like it should read "easily answered" not "easily
> > unanswered." It could simply be that the word was copied incorrectly when
> > the article was edited for your Sources book. Or it could be that this was
> > a phrase that was once commonly used and went out of style before my time.
> > I like the latter interpretation because it makes me feel really young for
> > the first time in a while. Thank you.
> >
> > Any comments?
> >
> > Ann Calhoun-Sauls
> > Belmont Abbey College
> > Belmont, NC 28102
> >
> >
> >
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