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What is the question? What research and instructional designs? What data collection methods? How to analyze and interpret data? Are findings valid and generalizable? What are the next questions? WHO?
An Example
Many studies have established a direct relationship between student height in elementary school and reading level
Correlation?
Causal effect?
look for factors not included in the correlation
Research Methods
Assessment Gradient
low Potential for Assessment of Learning high
Theoretical Framework Ausubel 1968; meaningful learning Novak 1998; visual representations King and Kitchner 1994; reflective judgment National Research Council 1999; theoretical frameworks for assessment
Few faculty members have any awareness of the expanding knowledge about learning from psychology and cognitive science. Almost no one in the academy has mastered or used this knowledge base. One of my colleagues observed that if doctors used science the way college teachers do, they would still be trying to heal with leeches."
J.J. Duderstadt (2001), president emeritus of the University of Michigan, in "A University for the 21st Century."
Exercise
Individually, for each of the research questions in the handout, determine:
if the question meets the 8 guidelines discussed earlier suggestions for improving the question
Share your results with a neighbor Be prepared to report to the full group