Students Mastery Activities to Accompany: How to Design and Evaluate Research in Education/
Jack R. Fraenkel, Norman E. Wallen
- 6th ed
- BOSTON: McGrawHill, c2006.
- xiii, 192 p.: ill.; 26cm.
CONTENT
CHAPTER 1: The Nature of Educational Research Activity 1.1 Empirical vs. Non-empirical Research Activity 1.2 Basic vs. Applied Research Activity 1.3 Types of Research Activity 1.4 Assumptions Activity 1.5 General Research Types
CHAPTER 2: The Research Problem Activity 2.1 Research Questions and Related Designs Activity 2.2 Changing General Topics Into Research Questions Activity 2.3 Operational Definitions Activity 2.4 Justifications Activity 2.5 Evaluating Research Questions
CHAPTER 3: Variables and Hypotheses Activity 3.1 Directional vs. Non-Directional Activity 3.2 Testing Hypotheses Activity 3.3 Categorical vs. Quantitative Variables Etc.
CHAPTER 4: Ethics and Research Activity 4.1 Ethical or Not? Activity 4.2 Some Ethical Dilemmas Activity 4.3 Violations of Ethical Practice Etc.
CHAPTER 5: Reviewing The Literature Activity 5.1 Library Worksheet Activity 5.2 Where Would You Look? Activity 5.3 Do a Computer Search of the Literature
CHAPTER 6: Sampling Activity 6.1 Identifying Types of Sampling Activity 6.2 Drawing a Random Sample Activity 6.3 Where is it Appropriate to Generalize? Activity 6.4 True or False? Activity 6.5 Designing a Sampling Plan
CHAPTER 7: Instrumentation Activity 7.1 Major Categories of Instruments and their Uses Activity 7.2 Which Type of Instrument is Most Appropriate? Activity 7.3 Types of Scales Activity 7.4 Non-Referenced vs. Criterion-Referenced Instruments Activity 7.5 Developing a Rating Scale Etc.
CHAPTER 8: Validity and Reliability Activity 8.1 Instrument Validity Activity 8.2 Instrument Reliability (1) Activity 8.3 Instrument Reliability (2) Etc.
CHAPTER 9: Internal Validity Activity 9.1 Threats to Internal Validity Activity 9.2 What Type of Threat? Activity 9.3 Controlling Treats to Internal Validity
CHAPTER 10: Descriptive Statistics Activity 10.1 Construct a Frequency Polygon Activity 10.2 Comparing Frequency Polygons Activity 10.3 Calculating Averages Activity 10.4 Calculating the Standard Deviation Activity 10.5 Calculating a Correlation Coefficient Etc.
CHAPTER 11: Inferential Statistics Activity 11.1 Probability Activity 11.2 Learning to Read a t-Table Activity 11.3 Calculate a t-Test Activity 11.4 Perform a Chi-Square Test Activity 11.5 Conduct a Test Etc.
CHAPTER 12: Statistics in Perspective Activity 12.1 Statistical vs. Practical Significance Activity 12.2 Appropriate Techniques Activity 12.3 Interpret the Data Activity 12.4 Collect Some Data
CHAPTER 13: Experimental Research Activity 13.1 Group Experimental Research Questions Activity 13.2 Designing an Experiment Activity 13.3 Characteristics of Experimental Research Activity 13.4 Random Selection vs. Random Assignment
CHAPTER 14: Single-Subject Research Activity 14.1 Single-Subject Research Questions Activity 14.2 Characteristics of Single-Subject Research Activity 14.3 Analyze Some Single-Subject Data
CHAPTER 15: Correlational Research Activity 15.1 Correlational Research Questions Activity 15.2 What Kind of Correlation? Activity 15.3 Think Up an Example Activity 15.4 Match the Correlation Coefficient to its Scatterplot Activity 15.5 Calculate a Correlation Coefficient Etc.
CHAPTER 16: Causal-Comparative Research Activity 16.1 Causal-Comparative Research Questions Activity 16.2 Experiments or Causal-Comparative Study? Activity 16.3 Causal-Comparative vs. Experimental Hypotheses Activity 16.4 Analyze Some Causal-Comparative Data
CHAPTER 17: Survey Research Activity 17.1 Survey Research Questions Activity 17.2 Types of Surveys Activity 17.3 Open vs. Close-Ended Questions Activity 17.4 Conduct a Survey
CHAPTER 18: The Nature of Qualitative Research Activity 18.1 Qualitative Research Questions Activity 18.2 Qualitative vs. Quantitative Research Activity 18.3 Approaches to Qualitative Research
CHAPTER 19: Observation and Interviewing Activity 19.1 Observer Rules Activity 19.2 Types of Interviews Activity 19.3 Types of Interview Questions Activity 19.4 Do Some Observational Research
CHAPTER 20: Content Analysis Activity 20.1 Content Analysis Research Questions Activity 20.2 Content Analysis Categories Activity 20.3 Advantages vs. Disadvantages of Content Analysis Activity 20.4 Do a Content Analysis
CHAPTER 21: Ethnographic Research Activity 21.1 Ethnographic Research Questions Activity 21.2 True or False? Activity 21.3 Do some Ethnographic Research
CHAPTER 22: Historical Research Activity 22.1 Historical Research Questions Activity 22.2 Primary or Secondary Source? Activity 22.3 What Kind of Historical Source? Activity 22.4 True or False?
CHAPTER 23: Action Research Activity 23.1 Action Research Questions Activity 23.2 True or False?
CHAPTER 24: Writing Research Proposals and Reports Activity 24.1 Put them in Order