1.

Which of the following designs is characterized by (1) an attempt to provide a solution to an educator's problem in his/her own school and
(2) the fact that the educator is the researcher?
a. Ethnography b. Action Research c. Applied Research d. Basic Research
2. Quantitative research is to explanation as qualitative research is to
a. exploration b. evaluation c. experimental design d. scientific and disciplined inquiry
3. Which of the following purposes is most aligned with a quantitative approach?
a. Comparing test results across groups to understand the effects of a particular instructional approach.
b. Developing a theory grounded in the beliefs of the group being studied.
c. Understanding the shared beliefs and practices of teachers in a school.
d. Understanding historical perspective for an educational topic.
4. Which of the following statements is most aligned with a researcher using qualitative methods?
a. Communicating the results in a formal, highly structured report using technical language.
b. Using a structured, fixed design in which a few variables are manipulated or controlled.
c. Collecting data through interviews and observations.
d. Investigating a formal research hypothesis.
5. Which of the following is most aligned with a researcher using quantitative methods?
a. Studying many variables in the context in which they naturally occur.
b. Studying a large number of subjects as a detached, objective observer.
c. Using a research design that changes as narrative data is collected and analyzed.
d. Communicating the results of the study in a loosely structured report that uses informal language.
6. Which of the following problems is most appropriate to a qualitative approach?
a. Describing the relationship between students' math attitudes and their math achievement.
b. Describing the effect on students' achievement of creating a student-centered assessment environment.
c. Identifying the characteristics that differentiate students who drop out of high school from students who do not drop out.
d. Understanding what it is like to work in a school that is changing the decision-making process
7. Which of the following BEST characterizes the difference between quantitative and qualitative studies?
a. Quantitative researchers structure and control the context while qualitative researchers do not interfere with the natural context.
b. Quantitative studies involve many, many variables while qualitative studies involve only one or two variables.
c. Quantitative problems are stated as questions while qualitative problems are stated as hypotheses.
d. Quantitative problems are researchable while qualitative ones are not.
8. The process that a researcher uses to verify that the contents of a document are accurate is known as
a. internal criticism b. external criticism c. internal validity d. external validity
9. Which of the following is most likely to be a secondary source?
a. a frontier family photograph c. a book about educational theory in the early 1900s
b. a soldier's letter home during the Korean War d. minutes from a university faculty meeting held in 1892
10. Which of the following is most likely to be a primary source?
a. a poem expressing a miner's feelings c. a film about battlefield maneuvers in the Civil War
b. a miner's letter home during the Gold Rush d. a book about educational theory in the early 1990s
11. Which of the following is not a characteristics of historical research?
a. It facilitates prediction of the effects of policy. c. It relies on naturalistic observation for valid data collection.
b. It focuses primarily on past materials and events. d. It can be used to test hypotheses about relationships or trends.

12. In APA style, a long quotation which is more than 40 words long needs
a. to be enclosed in double quotation marks
b. to be single-spaced and indented half an inch
c. to be double-spaced, indented half an inch, and not enclosed in quotation marks
d. to be single-spaced, indented half an inch, and enclosed in single quotation marks

13. The following example of an APA in-text citation is incorrectly formatted, because _______.
(Giugovaz 2008 p. 2)
a. the citation is missing commas to separate the elements c. the citation is missing the title of the work
b. the citation is missing the author’s first name d. None of the above.
 B. Identify the terms being asked.

___________________36. This classification of research is concerned with the improvement of a product or process
___________________37. This classification of research according to the level of investigation studies the effects of the variables on each other
___________________38. It is used to determine the authenticity of a historical document
___________________39. Systematic process of searching the facts and using the information to synthesize, analyze and interpret the data
___________________40.It used to determine the true meaning and value of statements contained in a document

I. TRUE OR FALSE. Write TRUE if the statement is correct and FALSE if the statement is incorrect. Write your answer in the space provided.
Erasures are not allowed

1. Qualitative researchers generally formulate a hypothesis beforehand and then seek to test it.
2. An important check on the validity and reliability of the researcher's interpretations in qualitative research is to compare one
informant's description of something with another informant's description of the same thing.
3. In formulating the title, all the variables must be identified and included.
4. Significance of the study includes the beneficiaries and the benefits that they can derive from the results of the study.
5. References should be listed in alphabetical order by author's last name.
6. References must be given for sources used in the paper only when the sources are quoted, not when they are
paraphrased.
7. If an entry in a Reference list is longer than one line, second and all subsequent lines need to be indented half an inch.
8. In APA style, the first name of the author in a Reference list is not spelled out.
9.

Identification
1. A type of validity that looks into the visual appeal of the instrument. face, face validity
2. A type of reliability test that measures the stability of test over time. test-retest
3. The boundaries of the research study.
4. The weaknesses of the study.
5. The focus of the study.

-GCA