Kinds of Research
This research is done by collecting participants' responses to written questions.
What is survey research?
This research report has strongly influenced literacy instruction since its release in 2000.
What is the National Reading Panel Report (or Teaching Children to Read)?
These data fit into groups, such as male-female or 9th grade-10th grade.
What are categorical data
An analysis of a group of studies on the same topic.
What is a meta-analysis?
Another name for the average of a set of numerical data.
What is mean?
This research is done by collecting a range of information about one or two situations.
What is case study research?
This researcher thinks deeply about the experiences of African American males in his work.
Who is David Kirkland?
It is important to think about this characteristic of data in order to understand whether the data are all clustered around the mean or if they are at greater distances from the mean.
What is the spread or the standard deviation?
The style manual most often used in writing about social studies research, including that done in education.
What is the APA Manual of Style?
It is considered an acceptable level of significance in the social studies.
What is .05?
This research is conducted by comparing a control group and a treatment group, to which participants are randomly assigned.
What is experimental research?
This study investigating early reading instruction made a name for people at the Center for the Study of Reading in the mid-1980s.
What is Becoming a Nation of Readers?
These data provide information about who is in a study, such as gender, grade level, years' teaching experience, score on previous tests, etc.
What are descriptive data?
The symbol for this statistic is sigma (ơ).
What is the standard deviation?
This statistic indicates the size of impact a treatment had on an experimental group when compared to a control group.
What is effect size?
Researchers engaged in this kind of research try to understand a situation deeply through the eyes of their research subjects.
What is ethnography?
Bond & Dykstra coordinated this research project that looked at the effectiveness of several approaches to first grade reading instruction in the 1960s.
What are the First Grade Studies?
Data for this research method might include interviews, observations, transcripts, lesson plans, student work, and policy manuals, usually collected from one site.
What is case study research?
This process is used by some qualitative researchers to apply a word or phrase to describe a unit of meaning in data.
What is coding?
This term applies to the condition in an experiment that changes based upon the treatment effects.
What is the dependent variable.
This kind of research involves a control group and a treatment group without random assignment of participants.
What is quasi-experimental research?
Known among other things for his eye movement studies and for linking emotion and reading, he is often considered the father of reading research.
What is Edmund Burke Huey?
DAILY DOUBLE!
These data identify two or more conditions that co-occur but do not demonstrate that one causes the other.
The characteristic of a research study that indicates it is well done and credible.
What is trustworthiness?
If I want to predict which of several variables will have the greatest effect on a population, I would use this statistical process.
What is multiple linear regression?