Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Research in Education
Building and Enhancing
New Literacies Across
the Curriculum
1. It is a process of systematic, reflective inquiry to
improve educational practices or resolve problems
in any operating unit (i.e. school, classroom, office).
a. basic research
b. descriptive research
c. action research
d. qualitative research
1. It is a process of systematic, reflective inquiry to
improve educational practices or resolve problems
in any operating unit (i.e. school, classroom, office).
a. basic research
b. descriptive research
c. action research
d. qualitative research
• understanding basic • rely on numerical
properties and or measurable
processes data
• type of research that • rely on personal
attempts to find accounts or
practical solutions to documents that
existing problems illustrate in detail
• aims to accurately and • explores research how people think
systematically describe a questions that have not or respond within
population, situation or previously been studied in society
phenomenon depth
• measures two variables • tries to identify the causes
and understands and and effects of whatever
assesses the statistical phenomenon is being
relationship between them studied
2. Some Grade 11 researchers bumped into Shiela,
a Gr 9 student. They then asked her to answer their
questions. This is
a. Availability Sampling
b. Cluster Sampling
c. Voluntary Sampling
d. Snowball Sampling
2. Some Grade 11 researchers bumped into Shiela,
a Gr 9 student. They then asked her to answer their
questions. This is
a. Availability Sampling
b. Cluster Sampling
c. Voluntary Sampling
d. Snowball Sampling
randomly selecting a opportunity or
dividing a population subset of participants availability sampling;
into clusters, such as from a population using who is readily selecting participants
districts or schools, available because they have
and then randomly characteristics that
select some of these you need in your
clusters as your sample
sample
selecting
members of new units are
the population random non-random recruited by
at a regular selection selection other units to
interval form part of
the sample
c. ordinal variable
d. nominal variable
categories without order ordered categories