Looking for academic research help!

[Amstaffer]

I know that chaz is not an academic message board but there are a lot of smart people here.....and I need help.

I am taking a grad class on the use of statistics in studies. The assignment I have been given is find educational research article in an educational journal that has not followed the rules of good research on sample size and selection. Once I find the article I am to tear it apart and explain why it is flawed. Tearing it apart will be no problem but finding the study is proving to be very difficult. Most of the sources I have weed out bad studies.

I am at wits end and hoping that some Chazzer can point me in a new direction or give some advice beside Seppuku. Thanks in advance for any help you might have.

 

[AGonzalez]

How about immigration statistics used in a journal or census statistics? Maybe try looking here?

Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health

or here?

DHS | Archives

 

[Amstaffer]

How about immigration statistics used in a journal or census statistics? Maybe try looking here?

Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health

or here?

DHS | Archives

Thanks for the tip, I'll check them out.

 

[CaliTerp07]

Marriage statistics. People are still claiming the 50% divorce statistics, because they take a time period (like the year 2000) and claim that since 100k people got married and 50k people (DIFFERENT PEOPLE) got divorced during that time frame, the divorce rate is 50%. Which is ridiculous, because it doesn't take into account the people who stayed married during that time period...

 

[Amstaffer]

Marriage statistics. People are still claiming the 50% divorce statistics, because they take a time period (like the year 2000) and claim that since 100k people got married and 50k people (DIFFERENT PEOPLE) got divorced during that time frame, the divorce rate is 50%. Which is ridiculous, because it doesn't take into account the people who stayed married during that time period...

Interesting but it has to be education related. I think I found one on happiness and student success.

 

[AGonzalez]

Cool, I misread your original, I just thought it had to be in an educational journal, as in you'd learn something from it, not a journal on education.

How about where they debunked that vaccinations give children autism, that has to do with the education system in a round about way - just a second idea in case your original one doesn't work for ya!