Exam 1 for EDPY

A teacher is interested in knowing the connection between the number of hours students do homework each week and their college entrance exam scores. What type of research design will she use?

• experimental

• correlational

• descriptive

• longitudinal

Which type of research is most likely to yield information that determines cause and effect?

• descriptive

• experimental

• correlational

• peer reviewed

In which instance would a researcher be most likely to use a quasi-experimental design?

• Mr. Shijo wants to do an in-depth case A study to describe which factors are

  present for a student with reading problems.

• Ms. Morris wants to infer whether being from an abusive home causes students to have poorer reading scores.

• Mr. Cox wants to know what

  percentage of students in the senior C honors program belongs to minority

  groups.

• Ms. Ramirez decides to adopt a new math curriculum for half his students selected at random, wanting to know whether it causes those students to have better applied problem-solving skills.

Community, mass media, and parental employment are part of what system in the Bronfenbrenner model?

• exosystem

• microsystem

• macrosystem

• mesosystem

In Bronfenbrenner's bioecological theory, economic patterns and cultural values interact to affect children's development. This interaction falls into which of the following?

• macrosystem

• mesosystem

• exosystem

• chronosystem