Illustrative Coding Guide for Learning Styles Analysis
Basic data
Source
Identify the type of publication for this entry.
Coder
Identify yourself
Coding date
Give the date you entered these data. Use the last two digits of the year, two digits for the month (e.g., February would be "02"), and two digits for the day of the month (e.g., 4 would be "04"). For example, if you coded the study on 5 Jan 2005, you would enter 05, 01, and 05 in the following fields.
Year
Month
Day
Research question
RQ
Enter the research question for the study. State it in the "whether..." form.
RQ Additions
Enter additional comments about this research question.
Source data
Citation
Enter the short form of the citation. Examples:
Smith, 1980
Smith & Jones, 1981
Smith et al., 1982
If you know that there is more than one entry that will take this short form, add identifying letters according to APA rules (e.g., Smith, 1981a; Smith, 1981b). If you think there is a chance that the citation for this study might be confused with the citation for another study, put an asterisk next to the year (e.g., Smith et al., 1982*).
Reference
Enter the complete citation, according to APA style. Do not use italics or other special fonts. If you copy the citation from a word-processing document, make sure you copy it as text so that control characters won't contaminate the database.
Publication year
Enter the year of publication. If the document is a prepublication or the if the year is not given, enter n.d.
Participants
Sampling
Select the type of sample according to the guidelines in the manual.
Population
Random
Convenience
Unclear
Not reported
Number
Enter the total number of participants at the beginning and end of the study.
Start
End
Age data
Answer the accompanying questions.
Were ages given for overall sample?
Yes
No
Were ages given only by groups within the sample?
Yes
No
What was the mean age overall? Please give no more than two decimal places.
What was the standard deviation for age overall? Please give no more than two decimal places.
Did you have to compute means and standard deviations for ages?
Yes
No
Dependent measures
Enter the information for each dependent measure in a separate row;
Measure name
Type of measure
Administer of measure
Reliability reported? Yes No
etc.
Measure name
Type of measure
Administer of measure
Reliability reported? Yes No
etc.
Measure name
Type of measure
Administer of measure
Reliability reported? Yes No
etc.
Research design
Type of design
Identify the type of design according to those described by Campbell & Stanley.
Study Quality
Enter the number of threats to internal validity that C & S show as not eliminated (i.e., have minuses in Table 1).
