Evaluation Of The Participant Recruitment Stage

At the start of the study, at total of 150 students were identified as potential participants

A) Mr. Gualtieri cannot draw a conclusion about a cause-and-effect relationship from the evidence he has because he would be too quick to determine the factors that are affecting the students’ learning, development, and behavior (Ormrod, 2014, p.11). Instead of worrying about the cause-and- effect relationship from the evidence, Mr. Gualtieri should scrutinize the research report carefully; therefore, he must answer two questions. First, he must determine if he separated and controlled variables that might have an influence on the outcome. Second, he must ask if he has ruled out other possible explanations for his results? (Ormrod, 2014, p.11). If Mr. Gualtieri’s answers to both these questions are yes, then he should be able to draw a conclusion about the cause-and-effect relationship. Unfortunately, “yes” is not the answer to the two questions. This software program may not lead itself to experimental manipulation and tight control of other potentially influential variables because it is considered as a quasi-experimental study (Ormrod, 2014, p.10). Some of these influential variables that cannot be

Method: The type of article would be an empirical study. The purpose of the study was to examine

The sample is not a representative of the population. The number of different groups of nurses was not equal. Registered nurses had the biggest number and this made the research biased towards them (Kalisch & Lee, 2011, p. 86). To represent the entire population, the different

Instructions: This is a group activity that you will start in class and complete at home. For each of the following, note, whether the research design used is an experiment, a quasi-experiment, or a correlational approach and why. If a study is an experiment, identify the independent variable and the dependent variable. Please type your answers in complete sentences.

They used with an experimental control group and they compared it for over a period of 5 years. The observation they studied was to compare the effects on the experiment and compared the group of students using: “(a) descriptive statistics including means and standard deviations of direct observation data; (b) visual inspection of means for DIBELS subtests across first, second, and third grades; (c) ANOVA test for the slopes for NWF (first grade) and ORF (first-third grades); and (d) ANOVA tests for the WRMT.” (Wills, H.,

EX: Using 3 students to see if the new “finger pointer” is effective to increase reading fluency.

Chapter four will explain the design of the research, the description of sample, description of the sample, data matrix, and the method of data analysis. The design is a survey method that was conducted through an online program called survey monkey. Description of sample was that the survey was given out to females and males that were teachers or parents of young children. The data matrix that is going to be referred to table 4.1 will include three questions and the results from both the teacher and parent survey. Lastly, the method of data analysis is simple statistical analysis will be used for the surveys along with textual analysis of comments.

3.     What are the advantages and disadvantages of an experimental design in an educational study?

Researcher will adopt a three-pronged approach in order to address every possible facet and in order to construct as rich an experiment as possible. For this reason, a qualitative rather than quantitative approach will be taken. Firstly,

This is an observational study because it does involve the study of the variables as they are without any sort of manipulation.

Was the sample approach adequate for the research design that was selected and explain why.

These episodes are also summarized versions of research articles which means that important information can excluded. This omission of information can then be misleading to the general public. In regards to the research article the type of study conducted comes with its own weaknesses. Since the study is longitudinal there is a risk of attrition or loss of participants. Participants who may have had low academic achievement and were the oldest child may have dropped out of the study which could lead to the results the researchers

It is important to mention at this stage that a research study presented by a researcher may not give complete information about the selected topic. There can be certain limitations of methodology and the new researchers may criticise it for being incomplete. As research is a circular process in which ideas can be added and extracted by researchers anytime, the application of the presented ideas by one researcher are tested and verified.

A study design is the procedure that guides a researcher on how to collect, analyze and interpret observations. It is a logical model that guides the investigator while he navigates through the various stages of the research. Study types can be classified severally depending on the research strategy employed. A study type can be non-interventional that is ‘observational’ where a researcher just observes and analyses researchable objects or situations without intervening. Non-interventional study designs can be exploratory, descriptive or comparative. A study can also be