A Review of Journal Article in Educational Research: “Challenging Underachievement in Boys”

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This review of a journal article in Educational Research demonstrates that the reported research contains a number of crucial shortcomings in both overall research designs and specific research procedures which are deemed to threat the validity and reliability of the widely-recognized international journal. Specifically in the research methods, the authors of the journal article are considered to fall short of the tenable foundations for their mixed-method research in a few key issues; selecting equitable predictor and criterion variables, overcoming false positives in identifying experimental target schools, taking the essential steps for probability sampling, and avoiding biased approaches to semi-structured interviews. As a result, it seems to be increasingly clear that the consumers of any journal article should be wary of its possible defects and misconceptions in assessing the overall generalizability of research findings.

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