The basics of educational research

What is the Purposes of Research?

• improves practice

• increase in selfishness

• adds to our knowledge

• informs policy debates

In a _________the research problem focuses on understanding the inner world of a particular group or exploring some process, event, or phenomenon

• Qualitative Research Study

• Quantitative Research Study

A key characteristic of research questions, which separates them from research problems, is the ________ nature of research questions, subject, and scope.

• broad

• specific

__________ is the primary focus of a research problem designed for qualitative studies.

• Statistically describing an event

• Evaluating control and experimental groups

• Predicting a causal relationship

• Understanding a group or phenomenon

In qualitative studies, the research problem primarily focuses on ________.

• understanding a group or phenomenon

• statistically describing an event

• predicting a causal relationship

• evaluating control and experimental groups

If a research problem contains a hybrid of quantitative and qualitative approaches, this is reflective of _______ research.

• Quantitative

• Qualitative

• Mixed

• Experimental

Action research is related to bring out change. True or False?

• True

• False

When compared with quantitative and qualitative research, action research questions are characterized by being more _______.

• fluid

• concrete

• generalized

What is the purpose of Action Research methodology?

• To understand how and why educational theories and practices are developed.

• To describe, analyze, and interpret the culture of a group over time.

• To interpret and understand social interactions.

• To solve a problem or to obtain information in order to inform local practice.

Action research is most appropriate when teachers....

• learn the participant views rather than imposing their own view of the situation.

• try to correct something that is not working.

• control for possible rival hypothesis for extraneous variables

• learn how things were done in the past and apply them to current or future events.