Plenary Session:
Guide for the Perplexed: Journal Articles—What to Report and Why (2144)

Friday, Aug. 7, 11:00–11:50 a.m., Room 717A

There are many guidelines specifying the information to be reported for different kinds of studies (e.g., CONSORT, TREND, etc.). Such guidelines have contributed to a set of Journal Article Reporting Standards (JARS) for reporting new primary data collection in APA journals. These include standards for presenting information regardless of research design as well as more specific standards for reporting studies with experimental manipulations or intervention evaluations using research designs with random or nonrandom assignment. Standards are also given for meta-analysis (Meta-Analysis Reporting Standards, or MARS). In addition to presenting the JARS, this session will briefly examine developments in the social, behavioral, and medical sciences that provide impetus for researchers to make more detail available when reporting their studies.

Participant: Harris M. Cooper, PhD, Duke University

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