Journal of Educational Sciences > Volume 5, No. 2, 1993

An Evaluative Study of Research Papers Published in Continuing Education / Abdulmohsen S. Al-Otaiby

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the research papers published in the periodical entitled Continuing Education in terms of their compliance with the academic criteria required and recognized by refereed periodicals. To achieve this purpose .the study was conducted on 13 articles as a sample randomly selected from work published in the abovementioned periodical. This sample represented 30% of all the papers published between 1980 and 1987.
In the light of these results, the writer was able to arrive at several recommendations that would ensure the improvement of the academic standard of research published in the concerned periodical.