Variables
What are the names of the the two types of variables in experimental research?
Independent and Dependent
What is the tool that quantitative researchers use to gain their numerical data?
Criterion measure
What is the "lowest hanging fruit" type of validity--the one that implies that it looks right?
Face validity
What drives the type of research approach (e.g., quant, qual, mixed methods)?
The research question(s)
Which research approach is often used to answer questions about whether one thing predicts another?
In experimental research, what is the name of the variable that gets measured at the end of the experiment?
Dependent variable
Name the four types of numerical data
Nominal, Ordinal, Interval, Ratio
True or False: An instrument can be reliable but not valid.
True
What is the name of the research approach used by teachers to investigate a question they have about their own classroom/practice?
Action Research
You want to know about the lineage of instrumental method books. Which approach might be appropriate for your study?
Historical
In experimental research, what is the name of the variable associated with the experimental (or treatment) group?
Independent variable
What does Standard Deviation mean?
How far the data are from the mean
Which type of validity asks, "Does it cover ALL the important parts?"
What types of research questions are necessary to facilitate a mixed methods study?
A quantitative question, a qualitative question, and a question about how they interact.
You are interested in how being a first generation college student might impact lived experiences as a music education major. Which approach would be most appropriate?
Qualitative
In the MLT study that you read for today, how many criterion measures did the researchers use?
Two (AMMA and the SEL instrument)
Which type of statistical test is used to compare more than two groups?
ANOVA
Which type of validity asks, "Does it agree with something we already trust?"
Criterion Validity
What is a primary goal of a literature review?
To read the reader logically to the research question and method.
Here are three research questions from an actual music education research study. Which approach did the researchers use?
(1) Is there a difference in levels of intercultural sensitivity after 4th–8th grade students participate in a twelve–lesson music curriculum intervention based on the traditional music of the Fon people in southern Benin?
(2) What insights emerge from comparing quantitative results and qualitative findings?
Mixed Methods
What is the most common type of experimental research in music education?
quasi-experimental
Regression
You are creating a new survey instrument to explore brass mouthpiece selection, but the majority of the questions on the survey deal with musicianship. This survey lacks which type of Validity?
Construct Validity
The earliest music education studies followed which research approach?
Quantitative
Name the type of inquiry that does not require empirical data collection and seeks to explore deep, underlying constructs in music education.
Philosophical