EDUC 40- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 83 pages long!)
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Educational research and ways in which research is applied to education. Why use research in education: learning, we want to understand how people learn, what learning looks like at different ages and different stages, motivation, teachers want to know what motivates students to learn, assessment. Mean, standard deviation, etc: these are quantitative ways of thinking about variables, seeks generalizability (extending beyond specific population) If i can understand something about how a group of children in irvine learn about numbers, i want to apply that to children in new york: to generalize results to different populations (e. g. ) Combined research studies: draws on the strengths of both quantitative and qualitative research to understand specific variables and broad phenomena, uses both numbers and words, data report includes both qualitative and quantitative data (e. g. ) Types of quantitative studies: descriptive research, provides information about a population or situation (e. g. )
