EDCI 301 Test questions with
correct answers
Descriptive studies - Answer Purpose is to describe events in a
particular class or several classes.
Longitudinal studies - Answer Researchers would study the
development by observing their subjects over many years as
changes occur.
*can happen over several months or years
Experimental studies - Answer Allows educational psychologists
to go beyond predictions and actually study cause and effect.
Instead of just observing and describing an existing situation, the
investigators introduce changes and note the results.
Qualitative research - Answer This type of research uses words,
dialogue, events, themes, and images as data.
*case studies and ethnographies are examples of qualitative
research
Quantitative research - Answer This type of research uses
numbers, measurement, and statistics to asses levels or sizes of
relationships among variables or differences between groups.
, *correlational and experimental types of research are generally
quantitative
Ethnographic methods/research - Answer -Involve studying
naturally occurring events
-Might study how students in different cultural groups are viewed
by their peers or how teachers' beliefs about students' abilities
affect classroom interactions
Action - Answer By focusing on a specific problem and making
careful observations, teachers can learn a great deal about both
their teaching and their students.
Microgenetic studies - Answer Intensely study cognitive
processes in the midst of change -- while the change is actually
occurring.
*for example, researchers might analyze how children learn a
particular strategy for adding two-digit numbers over the course
of several weeks.
Empirical - Answer Means "based on data"
John Dewey - Answer -considered the father of the progressive
education movement
-G. Stanley Hall's student
correct answers
Descriptive studies - Answer Purpose is to describe events in a
particular class or several classes.
Longitudinal studies - Answer Researchers would study the
development by observing their subjects over many years as
changes occur.
*can happen over several months or years
Experimental studies - Answer Allows educational psychologists
to go beyond predictions and actually study cause and effect.
Instead of just observing and describing an existing situation, the
investigators introduce changes and note the results.
Qualitative research - Answer This type of research uses words,
dialogue, events, themes, and images as data.
*case studies and ethnographies are examples of qualitative
research
Quantitative research - Answer This type of research uses
numbers, measurement, and statistics to asses levels or sizes of
relationships among variables or differences between groups.
, *correlational and experimental types of research are generally
quantitative
Ethnographic methods/research - Answer -Involve studying
naturally occurring events
-Might study how students in different cultural groups are viewed
by their peers or how teachers' beliefs about students' abilities
affect classroom interactions
Action - Answer By focusing on a specific problem and making
careful observations, teachers can learn a great deal about both
their teaching and their students.
Microgenetic studies - Answer Intensely study cognitive
processes in the midst of change -- while the change is actually
occurring.
*for example, researchers might analyze how children learn a
particular strategy for adding two-digit numbers over the course
of several weeks.
Empirical - Answer Means "based on data"
John Dewey - Answer -considered the father of the progressive
education movement
-G. Stanley Hall's student
