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What is educational psychology? |
Educational psychology is the discipline that looks at teaching and learning processes
Also, it is the aquisition of knowledge and APPLICATION of that knowledge |
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How is the research of Education different from science in terms of research? |
Science is deductive. General to specific. educational is inductive because there are no universal laws in education. specific cases can be generalized |
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How is the research of Education different from science in terms of measurement? |
Science is precise. Education uses tests and surveys. |
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How is the research of Education different from science in terms of methodology? |
Science is done in labs. Education is done in classrooms and deals with people's emotions, feelings, and time. |
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How is the research of Education different from science in terms of samples? |
Science is clinically controlled while education is not, nor can it be. |
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What are the two main types of Education research? |
qualitative and quantitative research are the two types of education research. |
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What are the quantitative research techniques? |
Descriptive, correlational, correlational coefficient, casual comparative, and experimental research |
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What are the qualitative research techniques? |
Descriptive research, phenomenology, and ethnography are qualitative research techniques |
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Code Maroon came from what kind of study at Virginia tech? |
Code maroon came from a phenomenology study at virginia tech. |
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What is descriptive research? |
descriptive research is normally time sensitive and to collect detailed information about a specific situaltion
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give an example of descriptive research |
an example of descriptive research is:
on a scale of 1 to 10, how much did you like or dislike... |
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What is correlational research? |
correlational research deals with a range of values that usually has a minimum or maximum.
It is to find out if 2 variables have a relationship. |
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what is an example of correlational research? |
an example of correlational research is SATs, GPA, and IQ |
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what are Correlational coefficients? |
correlational coefficients are descriptors with a range, from -1 to 1. The higher the number, the closer they are. |
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What does positive correlation mean? |
positive correlation means that as one goes up, os does the other.
More studying, higher grades |
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What does negative correlation mean? |
negative correlation means as one goes up, the other goes down.
More beer, lower grades |
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What is casual comparative research? |
in casual comparative research, we see a correlation and decide to look for a cause.
You cant ask a mother to smoke, but you can take results from a smoking mother. |
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What are the independent and dependent variables in casual comparative research? |
independent variables in casual comparative research are uncontrolable. dependent variables are what happens or what the outcome is. |
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What is Ex Post Facto an example of? |
Ex Post Facto is an example of causal comparative research. In EPF, you can't find out what happened if you didnt know you had to record data until after the outcome. |
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What is experimental research? |
experimental research is randomization. it doesn't happen often, but its the closest you get to scientific research. |
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What are the different scales of measurement? |
Nominal Ordinal Interval Ratio |
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what is a nominal scale of measurement? |
yes or no questions are nominal scales of measurement.
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what are ordinal scales of measurement? |
ordinal scales of measurement are ranks. These ranks cannot be equal. You can never put "0" at the bottom of an ordinal scale. |
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what are interval scales of measurement? |
interval scales of measurement are EQUAL intervals and do not have a true zero point |
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What are ratio scales of measurement? |
ratio scales of measurement are speed, and time. these measurements DO have an absolute zero point |
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what is descriptive research? |
descriptive research can be both quantitative and qualitative. An example of descriptive research is 21 jump street |
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what is ethnography? |
ethnography is an increase understanding of setting and how that contributes to the outcomes
Example: color of classrooms and their effect on learning. |
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what is phenomenology? |
phenomenology is a qualitative research that looks at individuals who all witnessed the same thing then record it |
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What is the Acronym for good educational research? |
the acronym for good educational research is APPLE |
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What does the good educational research, APPLE, stand for? |
Action oriented Principle finding Participant sensitive Learning Based Externally generalizable |
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What are the stage theories? |
cognitive, psychosexual development, and psychosocial theory |
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who founds the cognitive (stage) theory? |
jean piaget founds the cognitive theory |
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who founds the psychosexual development stage theory? |
the psychosexual development stage theory is founded by sigmunt freud. |
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who founds the psychosocial stage theory? |
the psychosocial theory is founded by erik erikson. |
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What are the different learning and motivation theories? |
behaviorism, information processing, social cognition |
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who founded behaviourism? |
behaviorism is founded by B F Skinner |
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who founded social cognition? |
Albert Bandura founded social cognition. |
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What are the two context theories? |
the two context theories are proximal development and bioecological model. |
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Who founded the proximal development theory? |
lev vygotsky founded the proximal development theory. |
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who founded the bioecological model? |
Urie Brofenbrenner founded the bioecological model |
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What are the distinctions of Assessment? |
the distinctions of assessment are ATM, assessment, testing, and measurement |
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what is formative assessment/ |
formative assessment is like a detailed pre-test used to make a decision |
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what is an example of formative assesment? |
examples of formative assessment are a list of pros and cons, or the STAR test so they can move to the next grade |
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what is summative assessment? |
"straight to the point" |
