Facts Are More Important Than Novelty

By Matthew C. Makel, Jonathan Plucker. 2014

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Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Information Systems and Management, Statistics and Probability

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Citations in the corpus

Replication Research and Special Education (2016, background): “Makel and Plucker (2014) conducted what appears to be the first direct examination of replication research in the education research literature.”
Estimating the Reproducibility of Experimental Philosophy (2018, background): “…rate1 should be for a given field in light of trade-offs between, e.g., innovation and confirmation (Gilbert, King, Pettigrew, & Wilson, 2016; Makel & Plucker, 2014), many scientists regard the estimates that have been generated—less than 50% in each of the above cases—as worryingly low.”
How School Leadership Influences Student Learning: A Test of “The Four Paths Model” (2020, background): “DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSIONS Replication studies are relatively rare in the educational sciences, in general, and educational leadership studies, in particular ((Makel and Plucker, 2014).”
Promoting Open Science to Increase the Trustworthiness of Evidence in Special Education (2018, result): “Consistent with findings from other fields (see Makel et al., 2012; Makel & Plucker, 2014), Makel et al. (2016) and Lemons et al. (2016) reported that only 0.5% and 0.4%, respectively, of articles published in special education were replication studies, and most of those were conceptual…”
Assessment rubrics: towards clearer and more replicable design, research and practice (2017, background): “Compared to other disciplines, educational researchers publish few replication studies (Makel and Plucker 2014).”
Rigorous Large-Scale Educational RCTs Are Often Uninformative: Should We Be Concerned? (2019, background): “This is worrying, as only 0.13% of articles in leading education journals report replication studies (Makel & Plucker, 2014).”
Recommendations for Replication Research in Special Education (2016, background): “Indeed, replications sharing one or more common authors with the original studies are more likely to reproduce findings (Lemons et al., 2016; Makel & Plucker, 2014; Makel et al., 2016; Makel, Plucker, & Hegarty, 2012).”
Replication in Second Language Research: Narrative and Systematic Reviews and Recommendations for the Field. (2018, methodology): “To illustrate this with an example from the field of education research, Makel and Plucker (2014) found the median citation count of replications was five (range = 0 to 135), compared to 31 for the initial studies (range = 1 to 7,644).”
It’s All a Matter of Perspective: Viewing First-Person Video Modeling Examples Promotes Learning of an Assembly Task (2017, unknown): “This cross-national collaboration reflects the idea that replication is a crucial aspect of educational research (Makel & Plucker, 2014; Shavelson & Towne, 2002).”
Observational Evaluation of Teachers: Measuring More Than We Bargained for? (2016, unknown): “In advocating for more replication studies in educational research, for example, Makel and Plucker (2014) revealed that less than 1% of education articles in top journals were replication studies.”