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16 Cards in this Set
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Metacognition |
“thinking about thinking” - Five Distinct Skills: Assess the Task Evaluate Strength and Weakness Plan an Approach Apply Strategies and Monitor your Performance Reflect and Adjust (if needed) |
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Research Literature |
the set of published research studies on a particular topic |
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Understanding |
attempting to learn about and generate ideas about specific and unique phenomena |
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Description |
an attempt to describe the characteristics of a phenomenon. |
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Descriptive Research |
provide an accurate description or picture of the status or characteristics of a situation or phenomenon. |
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Explanatory Research |
testing hypotheses and theories that explain the functions of a phenomenon in detail. |
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Influence |
attempting to apply research to make certain outcomes occur. |
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Integration |
consolidating insights from multiple investigators, theories/perspectives, sets of data, methods in order to understand a given entity of study. |
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Emic Perspective |
Insiders Perspective Meanings and views of people being studied Get inside the heads of the group members
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Etic Perspective |
External, social perspective Perspective of objective researcher Use social scientific concepts, terms, and procedures to describe and explain behavior Brings research questions from outside |
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Types of Research |
Basic Evaluation Action Orientational Applied
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Basic research |
generating fundamental knowledge |
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Applied Research |
answering real-world, practical questions in order to provide relatively immediate solutions. |
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Evaluation Research |
Determine how well social or educational programs work in real-world settings, as well as any improvement possibilities. (formative, Summative) |
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Action Research |
addressing and solving specific problems which local practitioners confront in their schools and communities, conducting research directly within the classroom or work environment. |
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Orientational Research |
collecting information to aid in advancing a specific ideological, political position or orientation which a researcher believes will improve society. |
