C224 Objective Assessment || Graded A+.
What is the importance of educational research? correct answers It provides vital information for
stakeholders (students, teachers, administrators) for the academic problems they face.
What are the major divisions of the AERA? correct answers Division A: Administration,
Organization, and Leadership
Division B: Curriculum Studies
Division C: Learning and Instruction
Division D: Measurement and Research Methodology
Division E: Counseling and Human Development
Division F: History and Historiograph
Division G: Social Context of Education
Division H: Research, Evaluation, and Assessment in Schools
Division I: Education in the Professions
Division J: Postsecondary Education
Division K: Teaching and Teacher Education
, Division L: Educational Policy and Politics
What are the 3 primary objectives of educational research? correct answers To understand, to
explain, and to predict human behavior
Descriptive Research correct answers seeks to provide an accurate description or picture of the
status or characteristics of a situation or phenomenon; not necessarily cause and effect
Explanatory/Experimental Research correct answers interested in testing hypotheses and theories
that explain the functions of a phenomenon in detail; evidence for cause-and-effect relationships
Predictive Research correct answers predict the future status of one or more dependent (or
criterion) variables on the basis of one or more independent (or predictor) variables.
What is the emic perspective? correct answers Insider perspective; touchy-feely
What is the etic perspective? correct answers external (objective researcher); objective
What are the 5 types of research? correct answers Basic, evaluation, action, orientational, applied
What is basic research? correct answers focused on generating fundamental knowledge
What is evaluation research? correct answers focused on deciding worth/quality of intervention
programs
What is action research? correct answers focused on solving local problems practitioners face
What is orientational research? correct answers collecting info. to aid in advancing a specific
ideology, political position, or orientation to improve society
What is the importance of educational research? correct answers It provides vital information for
stakeholders (students, teachers, administrators) for the academic problems they face.
What are the major divisions of the AERA? correct answers Division A: Administration,
Organization, and Leadership
Division B: Curriculum Studies
Division C: Learning and Instruction
Division D: Measurement and Research Methodology
Division E: Counseling and Human Development
Division F: History and Historiograph
Division G: Social Context of Education
Division H: Research, Evaluation, and Assessment in Schools
Division I: Education in the Professions
Division J: Postsecondary Education
Division K: Teaching and Teacher Education
, Division L: Educational Policy and Politics
What are the 3 primary objectives of educational research? correct answers To understand, to
explain, and to predict human behavior
Descriptive Research correct answers seeks to provide an accurate description or picture of the
status or characteristics of a situation or phenomenon; not necessarily cause and effect
Explanatory/Experimental Research correct answers interested in testing hypotheses and theories
that explain the functions of a phenomenon in detail; evidence for cause-and-effect relationships
Predictive Research correct answers predict the future status of one or more dependent (or
criterion) variables on the basis of one or more independent (or predictor) variables.
What is the emic perspective? correct answers Insider perspective; touchy-feely
What is the etic perspective? correct answers external (objective researcher); objective
What are the 5 types of research? correct answers Basic, evaluation, action, orientational, applied
What is basic research? correct answers focused on generating fundamental knowledge
What is evaluation research? correct answers focused on deciding worth/quality of intervention
programs
What is action research? correct answers focused on solving local problems practitioners face
What is orientational research? correct answers collecting info. to aid in advancing a specific
ideology, political position, or orientation to improve society
