One Small Droplet
News Media Coverage of Peer-Reviewed and University-Based Education Research and Academic Expertise
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9733362 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Holly Yettick (Education Week Research Center, Editorial Projects in Education, Bethesda, MD, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 44 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 173-184 |
| Publication date | 2015-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Educational Researcher (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0013-189X • E-ISSN: 1935-102X |
| Publisher | American Educational Research Association (AERA) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.3102/0013189x15574903 |
| OpenAlex | W2017631017 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 30 |
Most members of the American public will never read this article. Instead, they will obtain much of their information about education from the news media. Yet little academic research has examined the type or quality of education research and expertise they will find there. Through the lens of gatekeeping theory, this mixed-methods study aims to address that gap by examining the prevalence of news media citations of evidence that has undergone the quality-control measure of peer review and expertise associated with academics generally required to have expertise in their fields. Results suggest that, unlike science or medical journalists, education writers virtually never cite peer-reviewed research. Nor do they use the American Educational Research Association as a resource. Academic experts are also underrepresented in news media coverage, especially when compared to government officials. Barriers between the news media and academia include structural differences between research on education and the medical or life sciences as well as journalists’ lack of knowledge of the definition and value of peer review and tendency to apply and misapply news values to social science research and expertise
Educational research · Gatekeeping · Government (linguistics · Journalism · Media studies · News media · News values · Political science · Public relations · Quality (philosophy · Social science · Sociology · Value (mathematics · Academic Freedom and Politics · Computer Science · Nonprofit Sector and Volunteering · Political Influence and Corporate Strategies · Psychology
An Elusive Science
Think Tanks, Public Policy, and the Politics of Expertise
Gatekeeping Theory
The Efficiency of Constructed Week Sampling for Content Analysis of Online News
The Effectiveness of Random, Consecutive Day and Constructed Week Sampling in Newspaper Content Analysis
Sampling Error and Selecting Intercoder Reliability Samples for Nominal Content Categories
Political Correlates of Television Viewing
Scientists are talking, but mostly to each other
Resolving social conflicts and field theory in social science
Political Correlates of Television Viewing
Gatewatching
From “Public Journalism” to the “Public's Journalism”? Rhetoric and reality in the discourse on weblogs
In the Face of Critique
Reporting Social Science in the National Media
False Equivalency
Journalists at Work. Specialist Correspondents
Gatekeeping, Indexing, and Live-Event News
The “Gate Keeper
Gatekeeping Similar for Online, Print Journalists
The American Journalist in the 21st Century
Re-Examining “Gatekeeping
Stepping Back from the Gate
The Mass Media and American Politics
Journalists at Work-Specialist Correspondents
Social Control in the Newsroom
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,71 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2025 (7) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |