It can be most illuminating and personally rewarding to fled

It can be most illuminating and personally rewarding to fledgling researchers to be given the opportunity to discover errors in published studies. First, you must read the content presented in chapter 9. Then review the following three research descriptions. Finally, identify and explain the errors and pitfalls in each. You should be very critical in your review.

Rogerian Therapy Some time ago, a researcher attempted a study aimed at discovering the possible efficacy of the Rogerian, client-centered therapy technique among children with reading problems. A sample of 37 first and second grade children, all of whom had been diagnosed as poor readers on the basis of a standardized reading test (the Gates Primary Reading Test) as well as teacher evaluations, was selected (Axline, 1947). These children were then placed in a special class that was taught by a teacher trained in Rogerian, nondirective techniques. The atmosphere in this classroom was described as therapeutic, the children being encouraged to express their feelings openly in the presence of a warm, permissive, and accepting teacher. The Stanford-Binet IQs of the children ranged from 80 to 148. At the end of the school term, the children were again tested on the ates Primary Reading Test, and, in general, their reading-age scores improved, in one instance by a phenomenal 17 months. The researcher interpreted these gains as resulting from the nondirective teaching technique, which was of course the assumed IV.

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