Flashcards
Why Study Educational Research?
Flashcards do conjunto (8)
- 1Critical Thinking Questions to evaluate research1. Is it experimental or non experimental?
2. Were control groups included?
3. Were participants randomly assigned?
4. Were attempts made to control extraneous variables?
5. How were participants selected?
6. Were techniques used to reduce effects of bias? - 2What are the primary objectives of educational research?1. Descriptive
2. Explanatory
3. Predictive
4. Integration - 3Descriptive Researchattempt to find certain characteristics of a specific phenomenon
- 4Explanatory Researchattempts to find how and why a phenomenon operates as it does
- 5Predictive Researchforecast a phenomenon when cause and affect have been determined
- 6Integrationconsolidating insights from multiple investigators, theories/perspectives, sets of data, methods in order to understand a given entity of study
e.g., emic perspective, etic perspective - 7Emic perspective- getting inside the heads of of people being studied
- insider's perspective - 8Etic perspective-external, social scientific perspective
- outside looking in
Informações
- Descrição
- Module 1 of WGU C224
- Criado por
- Regina Muna · abr 2017
- Atualizado
- 7 abr 2017
- Visualizações
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