Tuesday, February 13, 2007

March Meeting


Our next book is Ken Bain's What the Best College Teachers Do. I love that it's college TEACHERS and not Professors because it lends a different weight. We will be meeting on Monday, March 12, from 5-6:30 and we will be in a temporary location for that meeting, the Women's Community Center which will feature couches that do NOT roll! If you are a new member to the group and would like to purchase this book, please send me an e-mail! There will be at least one copy on reserve at CTL, too.

Happy reading everyone!

Sarah follow-up: Negative results

Hey!
Sarah was talking yesterday about problems with negative results not getting published, and I mentioned that some journals seem to be thinking about the same lines. So, here is one announcement from LinguistList:

For the first time in the field, the leading journal Language Teaching
(CUP) will now include a section of research papers dedicated exclusively
to replication studies. This area of research receives little or no
specific attention in the mainstream journals but needs to play a far more
significant role than it has up to now in our field. In keeping with the
survey characteristics of Language Teaching, we also encourage submissions
of meta-analyses which attempt to combine or synthesise a series of
comparable research replications. More details about this permanent Call
for Papers can be obtained from the Editor at: gporte@gmail.com

Language Teaching website:
http://www.cambridge.org/journals/journal_catalogue.asp?mnemonic=lta


Now, it is not about negative results, but replication is close enough for me. And the word "exclusively" is quite important here. Amy Perfors' had some discussion of the negative results issue on the Harvard Social Science Statistics website last year, but I'm hanged if I can find it in the archive...