Research in Education Test
1 Study Guide – Key
Questions & Concepts
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The Institute of Education Sciences and the What Evidence-based practice
Works Clearinghouse exemplify education's basic
movement in the direction of...
Assuming that policy agendas for education Seek to develop a greater understanding of research concepts and
become more evidence-based, educators will procedures
most likely...
Educational research emphasizes... Collection of empirical data, control for biases, and sample selection
such that findings can be generalized
The role of theory in educational research is Explain phenomena in terms of constructs and principals
primarily to...
Postmodernists argue that... Educational research is not superior to other forms of inquiry about
problems of practice
Triangulation is a method by which researchers... Obtain data from different sources in order to check for errors and
biases within their own work
Positivist researchers... Subscribe to the belief that there is an objective reality that exists
independently of the observer
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