Quantitative and qualitative research differ along several dimensions. Identify several of these and discuss the differences between quantitative and qualitative perspectives. Find a quantitative and qualitative research article on the internet. Explain why you have classified each as quantitative or qualitative. Briefly describe how applied, basic, and evaluative research are used in education and provide examples of such use.
Educational research is constrained by a number of factors.
Create your own cognitive map of this chapter. She has heard good things from other teachers in the school about their use of drill, but she has only a very little information about the use of manipulatives except that their popularity is very recent. The teacher decides to go by the recommendations of the other teachers and use drill. Describe a different approach that the teacher could have used to make her decision. The following is an abstract from a research article.