Use consensus processes, editorial strategies, and institutional policies to make theory integration impactful¶

Strategy · All strategies
Evidence · 1 claim (1 against) · 1 study (1 theoretical), q1 · 0 of 1 report an effect size · 1 claim rests on one study

Description¶

The article recommends concerted community efforts to overcome fragmentation, modeled on consensus conferences in medicine such as the DSM process, to reach agreement on construct definitions and terms. It further recommends that editors solicit and reserve space for integration publications and that institutions weight integration work in hiring, tenure, and promotion decisions, as already done for open science practices.

Design Implications¶

Context¶

Requirements¶

• Successful change requires empirical evidence plus consensus in the scientific community; financial infrastructure and committee work support the consensus process

Constraints¶

• Earlier calls to integrate theories in psychology met with little success; silo forces include opinion power of leading theorists, editor and reviewer preferences, and university traditions

Target Learners¶

• students in educational settings

Target Learning Goals¶

• academic motivation

Claims¶

• Generating integrative frameworks can paradoxically increase rather than reduce the number of theoretical models [-W]

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Examples¶

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Key Sources¶

• Reinhard Pekrun. (2024). Overcoming Fragmentation in Motivation Science: Why, When, and How Should We Integrate Theories? Educational Psychology Review. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10648-024-09846-5