Ways of Knowing
- -Sensory Experience
- -Agreement with others
- -Expert Opinion
- -Logic
- -Scientific Method (we're using this one)
The Scientific Process (replicable)
- Identify a problem
- Clarify the problem
- Determine what data would help solve the problem
- Organize the data
- Interpret the results
Overview of the Major Types of Educational Research
Other Researchers Sometimes Have a Category Called
Group Comparisons
- Ex Post Facto (Causal-Comparative)
(GROUPS ALREADY FORMED)
- Experiment (RANDOM ASSIGNMENT OF
INDIVIDUALS)
- Quasi-Experiment (RANDOM ASSIGNMENT
OF GROUPS)
General Research Types
- Descriptive -- survey, historical, content analysis,
qualitative
- Associational -- correlational, causal-comparative
- Intervention -- experimental
General Format of a Research Publication
- Background of the Problem (ending with a problem statement)
-- Why is this important to study?
- Review of Literature -- What do we already know about this
problem?
- Methodology (subjects, instruments, procedures) -- How was
the study conducted?
- Analysis -- What did the data indicate?
- Results -- What are the implications of this study?
Del Siegle, PhD
dsiegle@uconn.edu