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Old Dominion University ODU Digital Commons STEMPS Faculty Publications STEM Education & Professional Studies 2001 Council on Technology Teacher Education Monograph #17: The Technology Education Graduate Research Database: 1892-2000 Philip A. Reed (Editor) Old Dominion University Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/stemps_fac_pubs Part of the Educational Technology Commons, and the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine Commons Original Publication Citation Reed, P. A. (2001). Council on Technology Teacher Education monograph #17: The technology education graduate research database: 1892-2000. http://ctete.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/ Mono17GradResearchDatabase.pdf This Report is brought to you for free and open access by the STEM Education & Professional Studies at ODU Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in STEMPS Faculty Publications by an authorized administrator of ODU Digital Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. COUNCIL ON TECHNOLOGY TEACHER EDUCATION • An affiliate Council of the International Technology Education Association CTTE Monograph #17 The Technology Education Graduate Research Database 1892-2000 Dr. Philip A. Reed, Editor Office of Applied Technology Brevard Public Schools Viera, Florida © 2001, Council on Technology Teacher Education An affiliate Council of the International Technology Education Association 1914 Association Drive Reston, VA 22091 Purpose terms were derived from Jelden (1981), McCrory The Technology Education Graduate Research (1987), and Foster (1992) and yielded the corresponding number of citations: Database (TEGRD) was designed in two parts. The first part, contained herin, is a print document · Industrial Arts (N = 992). containing theses and dissertations from 1892-2000. · Industrial Education (N = 470). The second part, contained on the Council of · Technology Education (N = 264). Technology Teacher Education (CTTE) website · Industrial Technology (N = 184). (http://teched.vt.edu/CTTE), was designed as an · Trade & Industrial Education (N = 95). online, searchable database that contains graduate research completed within technology education from · Manual training (N = 38) · Industrial Vocational Education (N = 7). 1892 to the present. The primary goals of the project were: Considerable manual editing was performed · To highlight the history of research within before the Dissertation Abstracts Online references technology education. were imported into the main Microsoft Word document. Due to copyright law, the abstract and · To provide a springboard for researchers. other protected data needed to be removed from each · To help scholars build upon past research entry. A modified American Psychological and create diverse new research. Association (APA) format was developed containing The database was compiled by the editor and five fields that highlight the following information: built upon the work of previous scholars, specifically, · Whenever possible, the first field uses the David L. Jelden (1981) and W. Tad Foster (1992). complete name instead of initials (including Sr., Jr., III, et cetera). Methods · The date field. The December 1981 index from Jelden’s · The title field (including a notation for Abstracts (1981) was scanned using Caere OmniPage multi-volume works). Pro 9.0 optical character recognition (OCR) software · The type of document (thesis or dissertation) and converted into a Microsoft Word document. The and the degree granting institution. work of Jelden (1981) was considered a crucial · The final field contains either the starting point for several reasons. First, Jelden spent Dissertation Abstracts Online Accession several years soliciting studies and searching Number, Dissertation Abstracts International mainframe databases to compile 3,873 references. reference, or highlights that the document is The American Council on Industrial Arts Teacher not available from University Microfilms Education (ACIATE, now the CTTE) and the International (UMI). National Association of Industrial and Technical Teacher Education (NAITTE) supported his work. The final step in building the TEGRD involved Many institutions subscribed to Jelden’s Abstracts converting the Microsoft Word document into a because he provided yearly updates and corrections. Microsoft Access database and placing it on the The second reason for using Jelden’s index was CTTE website using FileMaker Pro. because it provided a single list of authors and dates spanning from 1910 to 1981. Findings The second step was to import Foster’s (1992) Figure 1 on the next page illustrates the number bibliography (N=563) into the main Microsoft Word of entries by year. Other findings include: document. This process was quick since Foster placed his work online as a supplement to the Journal · 5,259 entries between 1892-2000. (Note that of Technology Education (JTE). One major this figure is smaller than the sum of advantage of Foster’s bibliography (1992) over citations from Jeldon (1981), Foster (1992), Jelden’s Abstracts was the inclusion of master’s and the editor because of redundancy). theses. A second advantage is the inclusion of a · A mean of 59 studies per year. reference to Dissertation Abstracts International · 4,781 Doctoral Dissertations. within most citations. · 298 Masters Theses. The third step was to utilize Dissertation · 4 Specialist Theses. Abstracts Online to fill-in the citations from Jelden’s · Degree is unknown for 176 entries. Abstracts and to search for entries before 1910 and between 1992-2000. The seven following search 3 Project Limitations Recommendations There are several inherent limitations to a To make this project a success, technology database such as the TEGRD. First, since this educators need to: database does not contain abstracts, the user must rely on a descriptive title from the author. · Promote the database to colleagues and A second issue is the lack of master’s theses, graduate students. specialist theses, and international studies. A serious · Check for omissions and submit corrections effort needs to be made by advisors and graduate to the CTTE. students to help add these missing components. · Encourage graduate students to conduct Missing data such as the type of document, research and to submit their studies to the institution, & UMI information make up the third database. The declining number of studies in limitation. Many of these incomplete entries are older the 1990’s is a disturbing trend that needs studies that are not available from UMI. This considerable attention. limitation, along with the second, is the reason why · Use the TEGRD to evaluate and build the the online version was designed to allow users to research-base of technology education. submit new entries and corrections. Figure 1: Entries By Year 300 250 200 150 100 Number of Documents 50 0 1890 1895 1900 1905 1910 1915 1920 1925 1930 1935 1940 1945 1950 1955 1960 1965 1970 1975 1980 1985 1990 1995 2000 Year References Foster, W. T. (Editor). (1992). Electronic supplement #1 to the Journal of Technology Education: A partial bibliography of recent graduate research in technology education and related fields. [Online]. Available: http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/JTE/. Jelden, D. L. (Editor). (1981). Summaries of studies in industrial arts, trade and industrial, and technical education. Greeley, CO: University of Northern Colorado. McCrory, D. L. (1987). Technology education: Industrial arts in transition. A review and synthesis of the research. Fourth edition. Columbus, OH: ERIC Clearinghouse on Adult, Career, and Vocational Education (ERIC Document Reproduction Service No. ED290935). 4 The Technology Education Graduate Research Database: 1892-2000 Aabdollah, Morteza. (1981). Technical institute in developing countries with focus on Iran, utilizing computer simulation. Unpublished Doctoral Dissertation, Fairleigh Dickinson University. Dissertation Abstracts Online Accession No: AAT 8112766 Aagaard, Alan Arthur. (1975). A study for the recruitment of women in industrial arts. Unpublished Doctoral Dissertation, University Of Northern Colorado. Dissertation Abstracts Online Accession No: AAG7600177 Abdel-Latif, Mahmoud Ahmed. (1985). Modern desert settlements: Requisites, resources, and high technology--a model process of strategic planning. Unpublished Doctoral Dissertation, Texas A&M University. Dissertation Abstracts Online Accession No: AAG8514228 Abdullabi, Bakri. (1971). Abiedu, Julius Peka. (1989). Science and technology education in Cameroon: A study of the attitudes of preservice primary school teachers. Unpublished Doctoral Dissertation, University Of California, Los Angeles. Dissertation Abstracts Online Accession No: AAG9003156 Abitia, Freddie. (1971). The development and field testing of a self-instructional system in industrial design methodology. Unpublished Doctoral Dissertation, Washington State University. Dissertation Abstracts Online Accession No: AAT 7207628 Aboh, Timothy Yakubu. (1984). Relationship of selected demographic variables and perceptions of industrial arts interface with technology at low, intermediate and high levels. Unpublished Doctoral Dissertation, University Of Missouri - Columbia. Dissertation Abstracts Online Accession No: AAG8425605 Abraham, Ansley Allyn, Sr. (1956). An investigation of the interaction of freshmen with their curriculum in the school of education at Florida A & M University. Unpublished Doctoral Dissertation, Indiana University. Dissertation Abstracts Online