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Contrast the scientific method from other ways of knowing? What are “competing truth claims” in education? Are all ways of knowing or acquiring knowledge of equal value?
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Tuesday
05.21.02:
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What makes a “good” research question? Why it is important to explore relationships in educational research? What constitutes ethical research in education?
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Wednesday
05.22.02:
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What constitutes a "review of the literature" and why it is of value to researchers? What types of literature do we review in a review of the literature? Describe a strategy for a reviewing the literature.
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Thursday
05.23.02:
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What’s the difference between a sample and a population? What is the difference between a random and a nonrandom sample? How do you obtain a truly random sample? What is the difference between systematic, convenience, and purposive sampling?
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Tuesday
05.28.02:
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What is the difference between validity and reliability? What is the difference between reliability and validity with instrumentation and with evidence? What does a correlation coefficient represent and how are validity and reliability coefficients examples?
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What are threats to internal validity and why it is important to control for them?
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Thursday
05.30.02:
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What is the difference between descriptive and inferential statistics? What is sampling error? What is a confidence interval? Why are data graphs often helpful in interpreting data?
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Friday
05.31.02:
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What is the difference between statistical significance and practical significance? What is an effect size? Why can a result not be practically significant if it is not statistically significant?
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Monday
06.03.02:
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How does experimental research differs from other types of research? What is the difference between random selection and random assignment? What it means to "manipulate" a variable? Why is it sometimes impractical and sometimes unethical?
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Tuesday
06.04.02:
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Why is it difficult to generalize from qualitative studies? Is that their purpose? Do most readers want to generalize to a wider audience? How does the researcher impact the data collection in observational studies? Other types of research?
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