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Students Mastery Activities to Accompany: How to Design and Evaluate Research in Education/ Jack R. Fraenkel, Norman E. Wallen

By: Contributor(s): Publication details: BOSTON: McGrawHill, c2006.Edition: 6th edDescription: xiii, 192 p.: ill.; 26cmISBN:
  • 0072981849
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 23 371.007 FRA
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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



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