[EDFL 2240] - Midterm Exam Guide - Everything you need to know! (17 pages long)

• School: UCM
• Department: Educational Foundations and Literacy
• Course: EDFL 2240
• Professor: Alexander Pagnani

Document Summary

Two major types of educational research: quantitative research. Discovers relationships and effects and seeks to measure and quantify them. Relies on numbers and statistics to make its case. Excellent for generalizing discoveries to large numbers of people: qualitative research. Discovers causes and explanations, and seeks to record personal experiences. Relies on words and stories to make its case. Ex(cid:272)elle(cid:374)t for exa(cid:373)i(cid:374)i(cid:374)g a si(cid:374)gle perso(cid:374)"s life or a s(cid:373)all group"s experie(cid:374)(cid:272)e: both are valuable. Correlation: an important warning: correlation does not equal causation!!! Confounding variables: (cid:862)third varia(cid:271)les(cid:863) that cause each of the first two variables, making it look as if they cause each other. Why psychologists began to study behavior: freudian psychology. I"ll gua(cid:396)a(cid:374)tee to take a(cid:374)(cid:455) o(cid:374)e at (cid:396)a(cid:374)do(cid:373) a(cid:374)d t(cid:396)ai(cid:374) hi(cid:373) to (cid:271)e(cid:272)o(cid:373)e a(cid:374)(cid:455) t(cid:455)pe of spe(cid:272)ialist i might select doctor, lawyer, artist, merchant, and yes, even beggar or thief regardless of his tale(cid:374)ts, te(cid:374)de(cid:374)(cid:272)ies, o(cid:396) a(cid:271)ilities. (cid:863)