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Applying What You Know

Applying What You Know

This activity contains 6 questions.

The following are general educational research issues: (1) instructional leadership, (2) instructional strategies, (3) technology in the classroom, and (4) high stakes testing. Choose one of these issues and narrow it to a reasonable research topic and then a specific hypothesis. Defend the problem as researchable and evaluate the quality of your hypothesis.

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The superintendent of a local district wants to know if high school students should take physical education and health classes in their junior and senior years. Is this a researchable question as stated? Why or why not? If not, how might you modify it to become one?

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Read the three reviews of middle school education found at the following web site: http://ed.uno.edu/faculty/joescher/edfr6700/litrvw.ex.htm. Evaluate each review in terms of the analysis, organization, and reporting of information. Which review is good, which is bad, and which is ugly?

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Using a topic of your choice, conduct a search of the literature to identify 10-15 references related to the topic. You must include only journal articles. Describe the search process you used (e.g., key terms, combinations of key terms, number of hits, etc.) and provide complete bibliographic information for each reference as well as a short explanation of its relevance to the topic.

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Explain the difference between a primary source and a secondary source, and discuss the use of each in a review of the literature.

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Describe the difference between the nature and use of a hypothesis in a quantitative and qualitative study.

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