When you want to establish possible cause and effect between your independent and dependent variables.
What is When do you use an Experiment?
100
A systematic, qualitative procedure used to generate a theory that explains, at a broad conceptual level, a process, an action, or an interaction about a substantive topic.
What is a grounded theory design?
100
Systematic procedures done by teachers (or other individuals in educational settings) to gather information about, and subsequently improve, the ways their particular educational setting operates, their teaching, and their student learning.
What is Action Research?
100
When researchers describe the lives of individuals, collect and tell stories about people's lives.
What is Narrative Research?
100
A procedure for collecting, analyzing, and "mixing" both quantitative and qualitative methods in a single study or a series of studies to understand a research problem.
What is Mixed Methods Research?
200
Random assignment; Control over extraneous variables; Manipulation of the treatment conditions; Outcome measures; Group comparisons; Threats to validity.
What are key characteristics of Experiments?
200
When you need a broad theory or explanation of a process.
What is When do you use Grounded Theory?
200
When you have a specific educational problem to solve.
What is When do you use Action Research?
200
When you have individuals willing to tell their stories and you want to report on their stories.
What is When do you use Narrative Research?
200
When both quantitative and qualitative data together provide a better understanding of your research problem than either by itself.
What is When do you conduct a Mixed Methods study?
300
Specific reasons for why we can be wrong when we make an inference in an experiment because of covariance, causation constructs, or whether the causal relationship holds over variations in persons, setting, treatments, and outcomes.
What are Threats to Validity?
300
Systematic Design; Emerging Design; and Constructivist Design.
What are Types of Grounded Theory Designs?
300
Encourages change in the schools; Fosters a democratic approach to education; Empowers individuals through collaboration on projects; Positions teachers and other educators as learners who seek to narrow the gap between practice and their vision of education; Encourages educators to reflect on their practices; Promotes a process of testing new ideas.
What are Reasons cited today for the importance of action research?
300
Autobiographies, biographies, life writing, personal accounts, personal documents, and oral histories.
What are some examples of types of Narrative Research Forms?
300
To simultaneously collect both quantitative and qualitative data, merge the data, and use the results to understand a research problem.
What is the purpose of a convergent (or parallel or concurrent) methods design?
400
Problems in drawing correct inferences about whether the covariation between the presumed treatment variable and the outcome reflects a causal relationship.
What are Threats to internal validity?
400
Process approach; Theoretical sampling; Constant comparative data analysis; A core category; Theory generation; and Memos.
What are the key characteristics of Grounded Theory Research?
400
Practical and Participatory.
What are the types of Action Research Designs?
400
Experiences of an individual, chronology of experiences, life stories, restorying, themes or categories, context or place, collaboration.
What are some of the major characteristics of Narrative Research?
400
Collecting quantitative data and then collecting qualitative data to help explain or elaborate on the quantitative results.
What is what an explanatory sequential mixed methods design consists of?
500
Decide if an Experiment addresses your research problem.
What is the first step in conducting Experimental Research?
500
Notes the researcher writes throughout the research process to elaborate on ideas about the data and the coded categories.
What are Memos?
500
Implement the plan and reflect.
What is the 8th step in conducting an Action Research Study?
500
Identify a phenomenon to explore that addresses an educational problem.
What is the first step in conducting Narrative Research?
500
To collect quantitative and qualitative data simultaneously or sequentially, but to have one form of data play a supportive role to the other form of data.