Chapter 1 Learning, Teaching, & Educational Psychology Flashcards

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A descriptive approach to research that focuses on life within a group and tries to understand the meaning of events to people involved

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Ethnography

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Detailed observation and analysis of changes in a cognitive process as the process unfolds over several day or several week period of time

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Microgenetics Studies

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Studies that fit the most of the criteria for true experiments except that participants are not assigned randomly

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Quasi-experimental Studies

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Research method in which variables are manipulated and the effects recorded

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Experimentation

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Studies that collect detailed data about specific situations, often using observations, surveys, interviews or a combination

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Descriptive Studies

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Integrated statement of principles that attempts to explain a phenomenon and make predictions

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Theory

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Based on systematically collected data

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Empirical

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Established relationship between factors

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Principle

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A prediction of what will happen in a research study based on theory and previous research

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Hypothesis

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Research that studies many participants in a more formal and controlled way using objective measures such as experimentation, statistical analyses, test, and structured observations

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Quantitative Research

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Systematic observations or tests of methods conducted by teachers or schools to improve teaching and learning for their students

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Action Research

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Exploratory research that attempts to understand the meaning of events to the participants involved using such methods as case studies, interviews, and other approaches that focus on a few people in depth

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Qualitative Research

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Practitioners identify research questions based on problems of practice, then researchers gather and analyze the data to address those problems

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Design Based Research

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A method for conducting descriptive research in which the researcher becomes a participant in the situation in order to better understand life in that group

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Participant Observation

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Intensive study of one person or one situation

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Case Study

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A relationship between two variables in which a high value on one is associated with a low value on the other

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Negative Correlation

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A relationship between two variables in which the two increase and decrease together

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Positive Correlation

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A teacher’s belief that he or she can teach even the most difficult students and help them learn

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Sense of Efficacy

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The discipline concerned with teaching and learning processes; applies the methods and theories of psychology and has its own as well

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Educational Psychology

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Statistical descriptions of how closely two variables are related

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Correlations