Consider the following list of recent psychology articles:

Cooper, H., Valentine, J.C., Nye, B. & Lindsay, J.J. (1999). Relationships between five after-school activities and academic achievement. Journal of Educational Psychology, 91(2), 369-378.

Hattie, J., Marsh, H. W., Neill, J. T. & Richards, G. E. (1997). Adventure education and Outward Bound: Out-of-class experiences that make a lasting difference. Review of Educational Research, 67(1), 43-87.

Page-Voth, V. & Graham, S. (1999). Effects of goal setting and strategy use on the writing performance and self-efficacy of students with writing and learning problems. Journal of Educational Psychology, 91(2), 230-240.

Strage, A. & Brandt, T. S. (1999). Authoritative parenting and college students’ academic adjustment and success. Journal of Educational Psychology, 91(1), 146-156.

Discuss:

1. what purposes one might have in conducting such research.

2. what the problem statement of the articles might look like

3. what literature is likely to be reviewed in the introduction

4. what concepts would have to be defined in the article and what those definitions and the observation instruments associated with them might look like.