Multiple Choice

This activity contains 10 questions.

Research can directly address all of the following EXCEPT:



improving educational practice.

informing educational policy.

enhancing educational knowledge.

improving educational funding.











Which of the following could NOT reasonably be answered
by educational research?


the impact of principals' hiring practices on staff morale

achievement differences between ego-focused and task-focused
classrooms

the validity of a merit-based pay system in public schools

comparing science achievement scores of urban, suburban, and
rural elementary schools











For school psychologists, superintendents, and teachers, the
biggest benefit of educational research to their professional
lives is that:


research can improve practice.

developing databases is important for accreditation.

gaining degrees beyond a bachelor's degree is required for
continuous improvement, and research is the backbone of further
professional schooling.

student assessment is heavily emphasized.











One frustration with research is its lack of definitiveness,
which the text links to the fact that:



there are too few participants in research studies, thus reducing
statistical power.

research evidence accumulates slowly.

educational research questions are too value-laden to make sense
until many years after that generation of research has retired.

There are too few participants, AND research evidence accumulates
slowly.

Research evidence accumulates slowly, AND educational research
questions are too value-laden.










The important component to identifying a research problem
is:


disseminating your findings to practitioners.

locating subjects to participate.

specifying the issue to be examined.

all of these.











Conducting research in an ethical manner involves:



allowing participants to know about the purpose of the experiment
before their participation.

randomly assigning subjects to treatment and control groups.

informing research supervisors of research activities.

using deception of research involving college undergraduates.











Policy makers and legislators use research for



positions on educational issues.

weighing different perspectives.

concise data on educational matters.


all of these.










The order in which research takes place, according to the
text, is:


asking questions, gathering data, reporting results.

gathering data, reporting results, testing hypotheses.

gathering data, asking questions, reporting results.

testing hypotheses, reporting results, gathering data.











What does the book mean when it says that research
involves a series of interrelated steps?


Research involves going back and forth between reading other
people's research as well as writing your own.

The cycle of research starts with the literature review.

The steps in the research process of identifying a problem, making
predictions, and gathering and analyzing data are interrelated.

Identifying the problem that needs to be addressed often generates
other questions, which cycles a researcher back to the beginning of
the project.











Which of the following is a skill that is NOT required to do
research?


A knowledge of advanced statistics

The ability to concentrate on a project for an extended period of
time

Using the library

The ability to write well