Educational Research (509 & 510)

Question 1

Educational Research: Qualitative

Answer 1

• Ethnography: understand behaviors and culture of a group
• Narrative research: tell lived and told stories of individuals
• Historical research: describe past events
• Ground theory research: derive a theory directly from data collected in a natural setting
• Phenomenological research: understand experiences from participants perspective
• Case study research: understand one person or situation in great depth

Question 2

Educational Research: Quantitative

Answer 2

• Observational research: focus on aspect of behavior that can be measured
• Survey research: describe characteristics of a group or population.
• Experimental research: uses the scientific method and one or more theories to establish the cause-effect relationship among a group of variables that make up a study
• Correlational Research: used to establish a relationship between two close entities and to determine how one impacts the other.