Exam 1: Learning, teaching, and Educational Psychology

If a teacher wanted to collaborate with a researcher to better understand why one student was having difficulty adding two fractions,would you recommend they use an experimental design or conduct a microgenetic investigation?

A correlation is a statistical description indicating the

If a statistically significant difference is found between the math scores of two groups,we can conclude the difference was due to a chance occurrence.

Which of the following statements are TRUE of longitudinal studies?

A correlation coefficient of 0.90 indicates that

Weight of clothing and outside temperature are ____________ correlated.

Which one of the following correlation coefficients indicates the strongest relationship?

Discuss the purposes and procedures of the discipline of educational psychology today.What are the interests of educational psychology with regard to theory vs.application and learning vs.teaching?

A researcher reports that students who have the highest achievement in school tend to be more involved in extracurricular activities compared to students with lower achievement.What specific type of research was most likely conducted to inform this finding?

At Greendale Public School,four teachers each set out to conduct a research study in his or her classroom.Which study would be LEAST likely to involve the use of a correlational analysis?

Considering the recent statistics on Canadian student diversity presented in the Woofolk et al.text,which of the following statements is TRUE?

Findings considered statistically unlikely to have occurred by chance are described as ________.

A case study is an investigation of

A researcher participates in a class over a two-month period and analyzes the strategies the teacher employs to maintain discipline.This research is an example of what specific type of research study?

Research by Ogden,Brophy,and Evertson (1977)on selecting primary-grade students to read aloud suggests that the best method is to

Microgenetic studies:

The local secondary school board is interested in finding a way to reduce the number of times students arrive late for class.At the last committee meeting,someone came up with an idea that at the end of the month,the school could give a movie pass to each student who arrived late no more than once during the month.To explore the effectiveness of giving movie passes to reduce lateness,explain which type of research would be most appropriate,and outline one advantage and one disadvantage of this type of research.

When a result from a research project involving an experimental design is reported in the literature as significant,this result

Each person is given an equal opportunity to be in a treatment or control group by means of ________ sampling.

An explanation of how we remember things that we have learned is called a