Ballantine
and Spade,
Schools
and
Society
5th
Edition
Instructor
Resource
1. What are the advantages and limitations to using qualitative
methodologies to study educational processes?
2. What are the advantages and limitations to using quantitative
methodologies to study educational processes?
3. You have been asked to study the relationship between parents and
the school district in your community. Would you select a quantitative
or qualitative research design to conduct this study? Explain why you
chose this particular design giving 2 specific advantages.
4. Does reducing class size increase student achievement? Support your
answer giving the 3 three features of research design which legitimate
your conclusion
5. Can a study conducted with both quantitative and qualitative methods
draw different conclusions when each method is employed? Why or why
not? Explain.
6. It is often said that you can prove anything with statistics. Do you
agree? If so, why? If not, why not?
7. Being able to generalize your findings to a larger group of schools
or individuals is an advantage of:
8. Researchers who use quantitative methods must be particularly
careful to assure
9. Something that quantitative research designs must consider that
qualitative researcher designs do not typically address is issues
surrounding
10. A study examining why African American children succeed in school
by interviewing children and their teachers is an example of
___________ research
11. Following children for four years, from entering high school until
graduation is an example of:
12. One advantage of field experiments according to Biddle and Berliner
is that researchers can:
13. Research on class size finds:
14. According to the Tennessee STAR Project, standard classes are those
with:
15. If a researcher collects observational data in natural settings
16. According to Biddle and Berliner, a major difference between
previous research on class size and more reliable research was the use
of:
17. Which of the following is true?
18. According to Bracey, which of the following statistics are most
effective in understanding how well children are performing in schools:
19. In their study, Allan and Madden explained quantitative methods
employed to study behaviors may fail to produce valid results because:
20. Inductive analysis is used when:
21. Which of the following does Bracey suggest is a basic principle of
data interpretation using statistics:
22. If you can generalize your findings beyond those you collect data
from, your research is valid.
23. Many large data sets relating to schools and education are
collected by the U. S. government.
24. Qualitative data are typically more valid than quantitative data
because researchers are not imposing their own meaning on the data as
it is collected.
25. Participants in a quantitative study can also be used as
participants in in qualitative research.
26. Causal statements are those that attempt to explain what caused
something such as student achievement.
27. Quantitative data summarizes the research using numbers whereas
qualitative data does not.
28. The study by Allan and Madden on chilly classroom climates is an
example of a qualitative research design.
29. According to Allan and Madden, students in chilly classrooms are
subjected to scare tactics and harsh punishments from their
instructors.
30. According to Bracey, only one statistic is needed to understand a
simple phenomenon.
31. According to Bracey, the most dangerous statistic is known as a
mutant statistic.