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Research Methods in Education explores the foundational principles and practices involved in conducting effective educational research. This course covers a range of qualitative, quantitative, and mixed-methods approaches, equipping students with the skills to design research projects, collect and analyze data, and interpret findings within educational contexts. Emphasis is placed on ethical considerations, literature review strategies, research question formulation, and the critical evaluation of existing studies. By the end of the course, students will be prepared to undertake their own research initiatives and contribute to evidence-based practices in education.
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Chapter 1: Introduction to Educational Research
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Q1) Jackie is conducting a study at the local skate park on youth's use of slang language. She is unsure if she needs to submit her research to the IRB and asks for your opinion. How would you respond?
A) She does not need IRB permission because of anonymity.
B) She needs IRB permission because of personal privacy.
C) She does not need IRB permission because she is observing only.
D) She does not need IRB permission because there is no deception.
Answer: B
Q2) Of the following, informed consent accurately refers to a
A) minor child participant's agreement to participate in a study knowing the true nature of the study.
B) parent's legal permission for their children to participate in a study knowing the true nature of the study.
C) a school's formal agreement to allow researchers to conduct work in their school knowing the true nature of the study.
D) a teacher's formal permission to allow researchers in his or her classroom knowing the true nature of the study.
Answer: B
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Chapter 2: Selecting and Defining a Research Topic
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Q1) Dei read this really interesting study that examined the benefits of a structured program that taught problem-solving to disadvantaged children. Although the population that he works with is not considered disadvantaged, Dei would like to conduct a similar study at his school. Of the following types of studies, which best describes Dei's idea?
A) Extension
B) Generalization
C) Application
D) Replication
Answer: D
Q2) Given the hypothesis statement: Those students enrolled in instrumental music programs experience less transition anxiety as they enter middle school in a large urban district than do those students not enrolled in instrumental music programs. The dependent variable in this study is:
A) Middle school students
B) Urban district
C) Transition anxiety
D) Instrumental music programs
Answer: C
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Chapter 3: Reviewing the Literature
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Q1) According to your text, what is the best way to organize the report of the literature?
A) Present each reference by date with a mini-abstract.
B) Present each major finding in turn
C) Present the studies that have similar findings
D) Provide a meaningful summary of the studies related to main problems
Answer: D
Q2) Chanya needs to start a library search to examine her research topic "A comparison of two types of problem-based learning strategies in postsecondary school biological science classes." Which of the following keywords will Chanya likely select in her initial search?
A) Learners
B) Post-secondary students
C) Instruction
D) Problem-based learning
Answer: D
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Chapter 4: Preparing and Evaluating a Research Plan
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Q1) In which of the following quantitative research plan sections is the description of the research participants generally presented?
A) Introduction
B) Method
C) Data analysis
D) Appendix
Q2) Given Gabriel is sharing his dissertation proposal and Franklin is reporting on his final dissertation, which of the following is an accurate statement of the content of their work?
A) Franklin's report, but not Gabriel's proposal references existing research.
B) Gabriel's proposal but not Franklin's report includes a time line.
C) Franklin's report but not Gabriel's proposal includes a method section.
D) Gabriel's proposal but not Franklin's report includes conclusions.
Q3) In which of the following sections are data management strategies included in a quantitative research proposal?
A) Method
B) Appendix
C) Data Analysis
D) Introduction
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Chapter 5: Selecting a Sample
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Q1) When employing random purposive sampling, the initial sample is selected
A) randomly.
B) by criterion.
C) purposively.
D) systematically.
Q2) Maude is conducting an ethnographic study that concerns the transitions that older Americans face as they move into transitional housing. She is particularly interested in the potential differences in the challenges for men and women. She therefore is careful to include both men and women in her sample. Maude's strategy can best be categorized as
A) systematic sampling.
B) intensity sampling.
C) homogeneous sampling.
D) cluster sampling.
Q3) Which of the following are two general indicators that determine adequacy of a qualitative sample size?
A) Representativeness and redundancy
B) Generalizability and representativeness
C) Redundancy and clarity
D) Responsiveness and generalizability
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Chapter 6: Selecting Measurement Instruments
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Q1) Some individual differences, such as cultural differences for example, may distort information obtained from an assessment. This is referred to as
A) response set.
B) bias.
C) interpretation error.
D) sampling error.
Q2) Given the following research question: "Are there differences in individual student achievement scores in advanced science classes between classes where students sit in the lecture style seating and those where students sit in cluster seating?" What type of variable does achievement scores represent?
A) Independent variable
B) Dependent variable
C) Extraneous variable
D) Affective variable
Q3) Which of the following is the best example of a standardized test?
A) A classroom-based teacher developed test
B) An attitude measure developed by a researcher
C) The national achievement test
D) The outcome measures of amount learned in an experimental study
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Chapter 7: Survey Research
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Q1) Of the following, which is an example of a survey research question?
A) Does the intervention increase reading skills?
B) Is there a relationship between task performance and age?
C) What are the participants' opinions regarding effective instruction?
D) Are there differences by SES on the new aptitude measure?
Q2) The majority of surveys use ____________ as the primary data collection method.
A) mail or e-mail
B) observation
C) interview or personal administration
D) telephone
Q3) Max conducted a survey study and received an initial response rate of approximately 68% with his first mailing. What do you suggest for Max now?
A) His response rate is low. Try to determine if there is a systematic reason why.
B) His response rate is low. Send a second mailing.
C) His response rate is adequate. Send a second mailing.
D) His response rate is too high to send a second mailing. Analyze his data and report his findings.
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Chapter 8: Correlational Research
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Q1) Of the following, which is most likely an example of a correlational study?
A) A study that indicated differences in GPA between ROTC and non ROTC students.
B) A study that examines organizational variables that predict retention of special education teachers.
C) A study that examines characteristics of exchange student host families.
D) A study that examines the effect of overt displays of teacher empathy on student class behavior.
Q2) Jack administered an achievement test with an internal consistency reliability of .65. Jack should interpret this result as
A) high internal consistency reliability.
B) moderate internal consistency reliability.
C) acceptable internal consistency reliability.
D) low internal consistency reliability.
Q3) Shrinkage refers to
A) lowered accuracy in a prediction equation when it is applied to a new sample.
B) combining many variables in order to predict the most amount of variance.
C) effects of unreliable instruments underestimating the correlation.
D) a measure of the error found in a regression equation.
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Chapter 9: Causal-Comparative Research
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Q1) Given the following design, identify the most probable example of the study from the descriptions below. E X<sub>1</sub> O
C X<sub>2</sub> O
A) Susan compares mathematics achievement scores between those students who received after school instruction and those who did not.
B) Susan compares self-esteem levels of children who are in ability grouped versus non-ability grouped classrooms.
C) Susan examines the relationship between school violence incidences and number of children in a typical class.
D) Susan describes how fathers and mothers feel about moral education curriculum legislation.
Q2) One similarity between causal-comparative and experimental research is that both A) employ random assignment.
B) attempt to establish cause-effect relationships.
C) manipulate independent variables.
D) examine relationships after the events have occurred.
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Chapter 10: Experimental Research
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Q1) Audrey examines students' learning of science principles from interactive games. She randomly assigns the fifth grade students in her study to a control condition with no play time, a timed play condition, or an unlimited time play condition. She also groups her students into either high or low ability groups. She measures her students with a knowledge pretest, a post-test, and a delayed post-test. Which of the following is an independent variable in Audrey's study?
A) Ability
B) Fifth grade
C) Post-test exam
D) Science principles
Q2) A researcher's efforts to remove influence of variables other than the independent variable is referred to as
A) control.
B) assignment.
C) sorting.
D) determination.
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Chapter 11: Single-Subject Experimental Research
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Q1) Of the following, which is an example of clinical replication?
A) A researcher develops a package of two interventions, known to work individually, to decrease off-task behaviors while testing to administer to his student Tracey.
B) A researcher implements two interventions, known to work individually, to decrease off-task behaviors while testing, in succession with return to baseline between the interventions to his student Tracey.
C) A researcher implements an intervention known to work for off task behavior for homework completion with Sam his student to test with off-task behavior while testing.
D) Marcus tests an intervention for off-task behaviors for testing with his student Maria. He developed the intervention for use initially with his student Travis.
Q2) All of the following are types of replication in single-subject design EXCEPT?
A) Systematic
B) Direct
C) Clinical
D) Generalized
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Chapter 12: Narrative Research
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Q1) Marty is a narrative researcher interested in teachers who are children of teachers. He identifies participants and collects the stories of the role that their parents as teachers provided to them and the ways in which their parent's occupation shaped their own career path. He analyzes common themes and creates a description that applies across the stories. In so doing, which of the following types of narrative research is Marty best displaying?
A) Narrative analysis
B) Narrative critique
C) Analysis of narrative
D) Interpretive narrative
Q2) According to your text, which of the following is a trend that has influenced the development of narrative research in education?
A) Increased interest in school cultures
B) Increased interest in international education
C) Increased number of students with first language other than English
D) Increased emphasis placed on teacher knowledge
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Chapter 13: Ethnographic Research
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Q1) According to your text, after determining the site and sample selection, an ethnographic researcher will then
A) identify the purpose of the study.
B) describe the researcher's role in the study.
C) secure permissions and negotiate entry.
D) begin data collection, including observation.
Q2) Which of the following types of ethnography is defined as an ethnography written in objective style with common categories for cultural description?
A) Realist ethnography
B) Life history
C) Critical ethnography
D) Ethnographic novel
Q3) Jaytee wants to conduct an ethnography to bring attention to inequality among ESL students in school and advocate for changes. Which of type of ethnographic research generally found in education?
A) Ethnographic case study
B) Critical ethnography
C) Realist ethnography
D) Ethnographic novels
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Chapter 14: Case Study Research
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Q1) Which type of cross-site analysis tool would be the best way to examine the history of events that led to the decision of principals to implement an educational change
A) Multi-dimensional site matrix
B) Site-ordered descriptive matrix
C) Site-ordered predictor matrix
D) Time-ordered meta-matrix
Q2) To state that a case study is heuristic means that
A) it represents a strategy employed by scholars.
B) it relies on participant knowledge.
C) it shares something new about the phenomenon.
D) it supports a priori hypotheses.
Q3) Jamal needs a cross-site analysis tool to assist him in creating master charts. Which of the following would best serve his purpose?
A) Unordered meta-matrix
B) Site-ordered predictor-outcome matrix
C) Multi-dimensional site matrix
D) Site-ordered meta-matrix
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Chapter 15: Mixed Methods Research
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Q1) According to your text, mixed-methods research designs
A) include both relationship questions and difference questions in the same study.
B) include both descriptive and inferential statistics in the analysis.
C) include both quantitative and qualitative data.
D) include a number of quantitative measures of student performance.
Q2) Those studies that use quantitative and qualitative methods equally and concurrently to examine a research question are referred to as which type of mixed methods designs?
A) Convergent parallel
B) Equalization prioritization
C) Exploratory sequential
D) Explanatory sequential
Q3) A study that relies primarily on qualitative data and then uses quantitative data for building findings through administering a survey is referred to as a(n)
_______________ mixed methods design.
A) multistage evaluation
B) exploratory sequential
C) explanatory sequential
D) convergent parallel
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Chapter 16: Action Research
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Q1) Alex, a middle school teacher, questions whether the practice of pulling children out of the regular classroom for enhanced English instruction is contributing to this rejection and decides to do an action research project to address the issue. Alex's issue is appropriate for an action research study because
A) the study will provide insight into the national curriculum for second language learners.
B) the study involves something that is within Alex's area of focus.
C) community members will advocate for the study.
D) isolated instruction in English is common practice in schools.
Q2) The first step in the action research process is to
A) collect data.
B) identify an area of focus.
C) develop an action plan.
D) analyze and interpret data.
Q3) The text discusses all of the following levels of action research EXCEPT
A) individual teacher research.
B) district-wide research.
C) single department research.
D) schoolwide research.
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Chapter 17: Descriptive Statistics
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Q1) In a distribution with a mean of 50 and a standard deviation of 5, a T score of 30 equals a score of
A) 35.
B) 40.
C) 45.
D) 55.
Q2) Given the following set of scores 6,7,5,12,11,9,9,7,6,10,6; The score that represents the mode is:
A) 5.
B) 6.
C) 7.
D) 9.
Q3) In a distribution with a mean of 68 and a standard deviation of 4, approximately 84% of scores fall below
A) 64.
B) 72.
C) 76.
D) 80.
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Chapter 18: Inferential Statistics
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Q1) If an observed F statistic (4.80) with 1 degree of freedom within and 12 degrees of freedom between and a significance level of p =.04 and the table value is 4.75 what can the researcher conclude?
A) He has proven there are differences between groups.
B) There are no differences between groups.
C) Differences between groups are due to chance.
D) Differences between groups are greater than those expected by chance.
Q2) Rose is sure that any significant differences in her reading intervention study will favor those children who were in her treatment condition. She therefore will not consider rejecting the null hypothesis that the groups are different in favor of her control condition. Rose will then
A) use a non-parametric test of significance.
B) apply a two-tailed test of significance.
C) apply a one-tailed test of significance.
D) use descriptive findings only to examine her data.
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Chapter 19: Qualitative Data Collection
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Q1) Melanie is a qualitative researcher studying veteran teachers' perceptions of the State's new teacher certification criteria. Which of the following is NOT likely part of her primary data sources?
A) Interviews with veteran teachers
B) Observations of Teachers' Union meetings where the new criteria are discussed
C) The articles written in the popular press by teachers who are participants in her study
D) The test scores of the district's students who have veteran teachers.
Q2) One strategy that researchers can use to ease into the field is to
A) ask all the specific questions first to establish rapport.
B) come to the first session unannounced to see things 'the way they really are'.
C) try not to answer any questions about themselves or the study so not to influence the responses.
D) be relatively passive and ask nonspecific questions to increase comfort level.
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Chapter 20: Qualitative Data Analysis and Interpretation
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Q1) When a researcher categorizes and codes pieces of her data and groups them into themes, she is said to be
A) memoing the data.
B) classifying the data.
C) describing the data.
D) reading the data.
Q2) Karobi wants to assure he has credible qualitative data for his study on violent and aggressive student behaviors during lunch sessions. Which of the following questions might he ask himself regarding the data?
A) Does my study lend itself to generalization?
B) Do the findings inform policy?
C) What biases might have influenced my observation?
D) What competing hypothesis might I test?
Q3) Of the following, which is a qualitative data interpretation strategy discussed in your text?
A) Connect findings with personal experience.
B) Use a frequency analysis to examine the data.
C) Report a description of all themes.
D) Present the findings that confirm your beliefs.
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Chapter 21: Preparing a Research Report
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Q1) Which of the following example sentences is an appropriate presentation of numbers in a research report?
A) 17 children and their parents participated in the study.
B) 8 children were in the control group while 11 were in the treatment condition.
C) The control group included 6 children from a similar child care setting.
D) The study included 240 children from a large school in the Midwest.
Q2) As part of the hypothesis statement in a research report,
A) the variables are operationally defined.
B) the procedures of the study are clearly conveyed.
C) the instruments used in the study are described.
D) previous findings from related research are documented.
Q3) The acknowledgements page of a thesis or dissertation would most likely be found in which of the following sections of the document?
A) The Appendix
B) The Preliminary pages
C) The References
D) The introduction
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Chapter 22: Evaluating a Research Report
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Q1) Dave is reviewing a manuscript submitted for publication. The paper describes a study that assessed the attitudes of pre-service teachers about their student Teaching experience. Which of the following questions is most important for Dave to Ask himself regarding the study?
A) Was an appropriate experimental design selected?
B) Were control procedures applied to equate groups on extraneous variables?
C) Was the questionnaire pilot-tested?
D) Were efforts made to overcome observer bias and observer effect?
Q2) A guiding hypothesis is likely to be found in which of the following type of research study?
A) Qualitative
B) Causal-comparative
C) Correlational
D) Experimental
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