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What S Research Quiz 1 (25 MCQs)

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1. Which of the following steps of the scientific method is exemplified by the researcher reviewing the literature and focusing on a specific problem that has yet to be resolved?
2. Which of the following designs is characterized by the researchers' inability to actually manipulate an independent variable even though they are often interested in a causal relationship?
3. Which of the following studies most likely uses quantitative methods?
4. Endeavors to explain, predict, and/or control phenomena are the goal of _____
5. Which of the following problems is most appropriate to a qualitative approach?
6. Which of the following designs studies causal relationships?
7. What is a sample in research?
8. Which design would you use to assess the attitudes of parents, teachers, and students toward a new disciplinary policy?
9. The application of the scientific method to the study of educational problems is called _____
10. Which of the following is most aligned with a researcher using quantitative methods?
11. If a researcher (1) identified a topic and a specific educational problem related to it, (2) carefully described the ways by which data was collected and analyzed, and (3) wrote a report reflecting on this work and its contribution to what is known about the topic, her work can BEST be described as _____
12. An article, book, video, website, or other media from which information is obtained
13. After studying reinforcement theory, a teacher hypothesizes that using a tutorial computer program will lead to superior achievement in language arts. She devices a study in which the tutorial is used with two sixth-grade classes, whereas conventional materials are used with two other sixth-grade classes. This example of source of knowledge can be classified as _____
14. What do you call the degree of consistency and precision which produces a stable result of the conducted research?
15. Ms. Turner is thinking about changing her instructional approach to a more mastery-learning orientation. She is interested in knowing more about this topic as well as its effectiveness when working with elementary school students. On which source should she rely for such information?
16. The purpose of research is to
17. This refers to a particular procedure or set of procedures applied in conducting a research or study.
18. Experimental designs can be differentiated most clearly from descriptive, correlational, or causal-comparative designs on which of the following characteristics?
19. The results from which of the following designs examining the relationships between variables SHOULD NOT BE interpreted as causal?
20. Ms. Tina has been coordinating the Independence Day Festival at her school for the last several years. She wants to be sure the students and parents enjoy the festival again this year. On which source is she MOST likely to rely when making decisions about what to do?
21. If a researcher was studying the use of various instructional approaches to the "multiple intelligences" of a class of students, he is likely to be conducting which type of research?
22. Mr. Hamzah has collected a number of stories from his mother who was an elementary school teacher for 30 years. By documenting some of these stories he has recorded experiences that were unique, interesting, and meaningful. Which type of research describes Mr. Hamzah's work?
23. What is a target population?
24. Mr. Rahman's choice of a specific research approach to his research problem should be guided by the extent to which the approach
25. Which of the following problems is most appropriate to a quantitative experimental approach?
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