Lesson 10 will consist of the following topics
For lesson 10, read pages 277-310 in Educational Research: Competencies for Analysis and Application, Seventh Edition by L. R. Gay and Peter Airasian (2003, Merrill/Prentice Hall, ISBN 0-13-099463-4)
or read pages 158-174 in Educational Research: Competencies for Analysis and Application, Eighth Edition by Lorrie Gay, Geoffrey Mills, and Peter Airasian (2006, Prentice-Hall, ISBN 0-13-118534-9)
or read
pages 387-420 in Educational Research: Planning, Conducting, and Evaluating
Quantitative and Qualitative Research, 3rd Edition by
John W. Creswell (2008, Merrill/Prentice Hall, ISBN-13: 978-0-13-613550-0)
Descriptive research involves the collection of data in order to test hypotheses or to answer questions concerning the current status of the subjects of the study.
The process of conducting a descriptive research study would include the following:
Some of the common types of self-report research are:
The teacher or other educator conducting descriptive research will frequently need to develop a questionnaire to gather the data for the descriptive research study.
Jon Enderle and Susan Severson, the authors of the Enderle-Severson Transition Rating Scale(ESTR), wished to gather information directly from students in regard to their perceptions of their transition planning for the next stage in their development. They also wished to gather this information around the same areas measured by the ESTR Scale (Jobs and Job Training, Recreation and Leisure, Home Living, Community Participation, and Post Secondary Training and Learning Opportunities). They developed a series of open-ended questions and check boxes for each of the areas of the ESTR scale.
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You are an educational researcher who is interested in the relationship between classroom size and teacher characteristics such as gender and height. To get some preliminary data that might shed some light on this question you decide to do a descriptive study in regard to some of the variables that might be of importance to you. You decide that you need to get information from teachers about themselves, about their classroom, and about how they were assigned to their particular classroom.
You need to specify the following information for your descriptive study (as you need to do to complete Assignment 10) for Ed 603.
What is the height, room size, and gender for elemenary classroom teachers in a Midwest urban school district?
The subjects for the study will be all of the classroom teachers in five elementary schools, randomly selected from among all of the elementary schools in an urban midwest school district.
ELEMENTARY TEACHER SURVEY
The Education Department of Local U is conducting a survey of the elementary teachers in your school district. Please complete the following questionnaire. Your responses to this questionnaire will be kept confidential.
Please mail the completed questionnaire to Robert Researcher in the enclosed stamped addressed envelope.
Thank you for completing this questionnaire.
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