TRANSPARENCY OF RESEARCH PUBLISHED IN THE LEADING POLISH EDUCATIONAL JOURNALS

The article focused on a part of methodological review of research, which was published in the main Polish Journal of Education. The query encompass above the 1200 papers published in the eight journals from 2008 to the end of 2012. An used sheet was based on Hutchinson's and Loevell's research (2004). One of the properties that have been observed are: research strategy, research question and hypothesis, type of sampling, size of sample, method of data collection and data analysis. Based on those elements the transparency was assessed. Generally, transparency was not too high. Analysis pointed out also diversity of transparency due to affiliation of authors.