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05.23.05: |
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What makes a "good" research question? Why it is important to
explore relationships in educational research?
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| 05.24.05: |
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What constitutes ethical research in education? 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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| 05.25.05:
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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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| 05.26.05: |
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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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| 05.31.05:
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What are threats to internal validity and why it is important to control for them?
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06.01.05: |
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What are the three types of descriptive statistics? What is a z-score and why is it a good thing?
Midterm review
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06.02.05: |
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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? What are
the techniques of inferential statistics?
What do they tell us?
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06.07.05: |
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How does experimental research differ 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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06.08.05: |
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What are the techniques
of qualitative data collection? How do we
ensure that our data is valid? 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? What is "action research?" Is it a valid form of research?
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06.09.05: |
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Final Exam
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