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Title: Professor Wise, a faculty member in an educational psychology department at a major university, is ...
Post by: the reader on Mar 13, 2018
Professor Wise, a faculty member in an educational psychology department at a major university, is telling a colleague from the physics department why research on education is difficult to do. Which of the following arguments is he most likely to make?
 
  a. Many factors affect educational processes and outcomes.
  b. Conducting educational research is prohibitively expensive.
  c. Education is an art that cannot be studied scientifically.
  d. There is no consensus on the meaning of education.

Ques. 2

Given the observations of David Berliner, how should you respond to someone who maintains that educational research is relatively easy to do?
 
  a. state that educational issues are among the most difficult to research because of the complexity of educational processes and outcomes.
  b. agree with the statement.
  c. state that educational research is difficult to conduct because it is not valued by educators or policy makers.
  d. state that educational research is difficult to conduct because researchers are frequently denied access to classrooms.

Ques. 3

A characteristic of scientific research in educational psychology is that it
 
  a. has a fairly broad scope because most studies simultaneously manipulate many variables.
  b. has a fairly narrow scope because most studies manipulate one or a few variables at a time.
  c. is largely conducted in laboratory rather than classroom settings.
  d. has little relevance to the typical classroom teacher.

Ques. 4

Research in educational psychology usually focuses on
 
  a. as many educational problems as possible within each study.
  b. every conceivable aspect of the question at hand.
  c. anywhere from one to a few aspects of a given problem.
  d. broad sweeping issues.


Title: Professor Wise, a faculty member in an educational psychology department at a major university, is ...
Post by: trissy15 on Mar 13, 2018
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Title: Professor Wise, a faculty member in an educational psychology department at a major university, is ...
Post by: the reader on Mar 13, 2018
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Title: Professor Wise, a faculty member in an educational psychology department at a major university, is ...
Post by: trissy15 on Mar 13, 2018
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