Abstract
Random samples of 50 articles each were selected from the education and health sciences literatures to compare their use of quantitative evidence. While proportionally fewer articles from the educational literature cited quantitative evidence in support of research questions and conclusions, the study designs and approaches to analysis represented by these samples were similar. Our results do not provide convincing evidence to support the idea that educational research is somehow less “rigorous” than that of the health sciences.
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