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Harris M. Cooper

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Hugo L. Blomquist Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Psychology and Neuroscience
Psychology & Neuroscience
cooperh@duke.edu
Duke Box 90086, Durham, NC 27708-0086
417 Chapel Drive, 108 Reuben-Cooke Building, Durham, NC 27708-0086
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Selected Publications

Opening editorial 2022.

Journal Article The American psychologist · January 2022 In this editorial, the author gives voice to three principles that he hopes will influence the articles that appear in American Psychologist: The scholarship should be rigorous, it should attend to both basic and applied considerations, and authors ... Full text Cite

A meta-analysis on the impact of grades and comments on academic motivation and achievement: a case for written feedback

Journal Article Educational Psychology · January 1, 2021 This research synthesis examined the impact of grades, comments, and no performance feedback on academic motivation and achievement in elementary and secondary school. Four meta-analyses were conducted, with two each exploring the impact of (a) grades vers ... Full text Cite

Intent of reporting standards: Reply to Rossiter (2018).

Journal Article The American psychologist · October 2018 In this reply to Rossiter (2018), we note that the goal of developing Journal Article Reporting Standards has been to specify the kinds of information that should be provided to the readers of scientific articles in order to allow maximal understanding of ... Full text Cite

"Journal article reporting standards for quantitative research in psychology: The APA Publications and Communications Board Task Force Report": Correction to Appelbaum et al. (2018).

Journal Article The American psychologist · October 2018 Reports an error in "Journal article reporting standards for quantitative research in psychology: The APA Publications and Communications Board task force report" by Mark Appelbaum, Harris Cooper, Rex B. Kline, Evan Mayo-Wilson, Arthur M. Nezu and Stephen ... Full text Cite

Journal article reporting standards for quantitative research in psychology: The APA Publications and Communications Board task force report.

Journal Article The American psychologist · January 2018 Following a review of extant reporting standards for scientific publication, and reviewing 10 years of experience since publication of the first set of reporting standards by the American Psychological Association (APA; APA Publications and Communications ... Full text Cite

Self-grading and peer-grading for formative and summative assessments in 3rd through 12th grade classrooms: A meta-analysis

Journal Article Journal of Educational Psychology · November 1, 2017 The "assessment for learning" movement in education has increased attention to self-grading and peer-grading practices in primary and secondary schools. This research synthesis examined several questions pertaining to the use of self-grading and peer-gradi ... Full text Cite

Research Synthesis and Meta-Analysis: A Step-by-Step Approach, 5th Edition

Book · 2017 The Fifth Edition of Harris Cooper's bestselling Research Synthesis and Meta-Analysis: A Step-by-Step Approach offers practical advice on how to conduct a synthesis of research in the social, behavioral, and health sciences. The book is written in plain la ... Link to item Cite

Ethical Choices in Research: Managing Data, Writing Reports, and Publishing Results in the Social Sciences

Book · January 25, 2016 In this informative and straightforward guide, author Harris Cooper goes beyond the proper treatment of human research subjects to examine frequently neglected ethical issues that arise after the subjects have left. He teaches students and researchers how ... Link to item Cite

Reporting standards for literature searches and report inclusion criteria: making research syntheses more transparent and easy to replicate.

Journal Article Research synthesis methods · March 2015 A complete description of the literature search, including the criteria used for the inclusion of reports after they have been located, used in a research synthesis or meta-analysis is critical if subsequent researchers are to accurately evaluate and repro ... Full text Open Access Cite

A meta-analysis of the effectiveness of intelligent tutoring systems on K-12 students' mathematical learning

Journal Article Journal of Educational Psychology · November 1, 2013 In this study, we meta-analyzed empirical research of the effectiveness of intelligent tutoring systems (ITS) on K-12 students' mathematical learning. A total of 26 reports containing 34 independent samples met study inclusion criteria. The reports appeare ... Full text Cite

The overview of reviews: unique challenges and opportunities when research syntheses are the principal elements of new integrative scholarship.

Journal Article The American psychologist · September 2012 In the past two decades, a new form of scholarship has appeared in which researchers present an overview of previously conducted research syntheses on the same topic. In these efforts, research syntheses are the principal units of evidence. Overviews of re ... Full text Cite

APA Handbook of Research Methods in Psychology

Book · March 15, 2012 The three-volume APA Handbook of Research Methods in Psychology features descriptions of many techniques that psychologists and others have developed to help them pursue a shared understanding of why humans think, feel, and behave the way they do. At the ... Link to item Cite

Ethical Issues in the Conduct and Reporting of Meta-Analysis

Chapter · January 2011 A research synthesis focuses on empirical studies and attempts to summarize past research by drawing overall conclusions from separate studies that address the same or related hypotheses. The research synthesist’s goal is “to present the state of knowledge ... Open Access Link to item Cite

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Reporting Research in Psychology: How to Meet Journal Article Reporting Standards

Book · December 1, 2010 Reporting Research in Psychology provides practical guidance on understanding and implementing journal article reporting standards (JARS) and meta-analyses reporting standards (MARS). Described for the first time in the sixth edition of the Publication Man ... Link to item Cite

The Effectiveness and Relative Importance of Choice in the Classroom

Journal Article Journal of Educational Psychology · November 1, 2010 This investigation examined the effects of providing choices among homework assignments on motivation and subsequent academic performance. Students were randomly assigned within classrooms either to receive a choice of homework options or to be assigned an ... Full text Cite

Aerobic exercise and neurocognitive performance: a meta-analytic review of randomized controlled trials.

Journal Article Psychosom Med · April 2010 OBJECTIVES: To assess the effects of aerobic exercise training on neurocognitive performance. Although the effects of exercise on neurocognition have been the subject of several previous reviews and meta-analyses, they have been hampered by methodological ... Full text Open Access Link to item Cite