Educational Research
Research Process
Research Design
100
1. Identifying a research problem 2. Reviewing the literature 3. Specifying a purpose for research 4. Collecting data 5. Analyzing and interpreting the data 6. Reporting and evaluating research
What is the process of research?
100
An educational issue, controversy, or concern that guides the need for conducting a study.
What is a research problem?
100
Types of experimental designs
What is between groups and within groups designs?
200
- Describing a research problem through a description of trends or a need for an explanation of the relationship among variables. - Providing a major role for the literature through suggesting the research questions to be asked and justifying the research problem and creating a need for the direction of the study. - Creating purpose statements, research questions, and hypotheses that are specific, narrow, measurable, and observable. - Collecting numeric data from a large number of people using instruments with preset questions and responses. - Analyzing trends, comparing groups, or relating variables using statistical analysis, and interpreting results by comparing them with prior predictions and past research. - Writing the research report using standard, fixed structures and evaluation criteria and taking an objective, unbiased approach.
What is the characteristics of quantitative research?
200
Educational topic, the research problem, a justification for the problem based on past research and practice, deficiencies or shortcomings of past research or practice, and the importance of addressing the problem for diverse audiences.
What is the five elements of a "statement of the problem"?
200
Ethical Issues of Correlational Design in data collection
What is adequate sample size, lack of control, and inclusion of as many predictors as possible?
300
A concept or process explored in qualitative research.
What is the central phenomenon in qualitative research?
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