1. The Doctoral Dissertation Literature Review: An Exploration of the Boote & Beile Literature Review Scoring Rubric Dept. of Instructional Technology & Learning Sciences Utah State University M. Harrison Fitt, B.S., M.S.

2. Welcome

4. To improve education research, future scholars need to be taught the habits of the mind, heart, and hand (Shulman, 2005) unique to their discipline.

5. Lit. review skills embody a scholar’s ability to contribute to the field in an interactive, reflective, and generative manner

6. Poor lit. reviews frequently lead to poorly constructed research; good reviews reduce methodological errors & duplication of former research

8. There is a small but growing body of research examining the dissertation literature review

9. As part of that body of research, the Literature Review Scoring Rubric (Boote & Beile 2005) is an assessment tool for dissertation literature reviews

10. The rubric is being used as a pedagogical tool & has been included in education research textbooks

12. Who is using it?

13. How is it being used?

15. Article II: Validity & Refinement

18. It is being used widely in a variety of fields for a variety of purposes

19. However, in their initial study, the rubric was only applied to the literature review chapter of quantitative dissertations

20. We don’t know if the rubric works well for specific fields of study or for other types of dissertations

22. In addition to Chapter 2, examines the dissertation as a whole

23. Examines dissertations that incorporate a range of methodologies

25. Little difference exists between the scores for chapter 2 and the overall dissertation when examined as a whole

28. It is gaining widespread use across disciplines and research methods

29. However, only one study reports reliability and no studies examine validity evidence

31. Insights and recommendations will be applied to a revised version of the Literature Review Scoring Rubric

32. May provide valuable information to aid others in the decision to use the rubric

34. Content validity index for performance levels will be lower

35. These expectations are reasonable as faculty seem to disagree on the important of a dissertation literature review (Lovitts, 2006; Zaporozhetz, 1987)

36. Findings will be applied to a revised form of the rubric

39. Understanding how those skills are being currently taught is an important part of improving quality

40. Nearly all doctoral students in the US have to take a research methods course in which they are exposed to literature review skills in their textbooks

42. To provide an understanding of what literature review skills students are being exposed to in their education research textbooks

43. Will be the first time textbooks are empirically investigated using specific performance criteria of dissertation literature reviews

45. Search techniques will be covered