Educational Research: Competencies for Analysis & Application :

1. Educational Research: Competencies for Analysis & Application: By mutindi ndunda, Ph.D EDFS 635

2. Personal Introductions • Name • Program • Where you teach • The importance of this course to you • Your expectations • Syllabus

3. Introduction to Educational Research Objectives (see page 3). After reading chapter 1, you should able to: 1. List and briefly describe the major steps involved in conducting a research study. 2.Given a published article, identify and state: (a) the problem, (b) the procedures, (c) the method of analysis, and (d) the major conclusion.

4. Introduction-Objectives 3.Briefly define and state the major characteristics of the following six types of research: historical, qualitative, descriptive, correlational, casual-comparative, and experimental. 4.For each of these six types of research, briefly describe these possible research studies. Example: Experimental--A study to determine the effect of peer tutoring on the computational skill of third graders.

5. Multiple Choice Questions 1.Basic research centers on: (a) developing statistics (b) developing theory (c) application of theory (d) classroom interaction

6. 2. Which of the following types of research would require the most ethical considerations? • Descriptive research • Correlational research • Historical research • Experimental research

7. 3. Basically, the scientific method involves: • recognition of the problem. • formulation of the hypothesis. • collecting and analyzing data. • all of the above.

8. 4. Research used by industry to research products is called: • action research. • research and development. • product initiation research. • basic research.

9. 5.Which research approach primarily involves the analysis of contextual data? • Qualitative • Quantitative • Numerical • Statistical

10. 6. Qualitative research is often referred to in education as: • meaningful research. • ethnographic research. • fast research. • numerical research.

11. 7. A study that seeks to compare the effect of the whole language reading approach on high and low readingachievers is called: • historical. • correlational. • experimental. • causal-comparative.

12. 8. Studies that seek to determine if a relationship exists between two variables are called: • descriptive. • quantitative. • causal-comparative. • correlational.

13. 9. A study of women in higher education is called: • historical. • correlational. • qualitative. • descriptive.

14. 10. The major difference between educational research and other research is: • the use of statistics. • that more people are studied. • the nature of the phenomena studied. • the theory used.

15. 11. Qualitative research tends to: • use statistical analysis. • be based on the null hypothesis. • have an hypothesis emerge as study progresses. • none of the above

16. 12. A qualitative approach that attempts to answer in detail the characteristics of a particular entity, phenomenon, or person is: • ethnography. • grounded theory. • phenomenology. • a case study.

17. 13. Survey research is usually referred to as: • experimental research. • descriptive research. • causal-comparative research. • qualitative research.

18. 14. Most educational research is: • applied. • theory based. • qualitative. • statistical.

19. 15. The treatment or “causal” factor is referred to as the: • dependent variable. • ethnographic effect. • independent variable. • relationship coefficient.