midterm Flashcards
self-regulated learning: what is it and how
ability to understand and control learning environment
- goal-setting, self-monitoring, self-regulatioin
cognition
critical thinking
- identifying sources, reflecting on consistency with prior knowledge
metacognition
declarative knowledge
- knowledge about yourself as a learner, factors influencing performance
motivation
self-efficacy, beliefs about origin/nature of knowledge
inference vs. assumption
inference: intellectual act, concludes something is true in light of something else seeming to be true
assumption: taken for granted, something we learn and do not question
elements of scientific thought
purpose/goal, question, info (data, facts, observations), interpretations/inferences, concepts (theories, laws, principles), assumptions, implications, consequences, POV
POV in science
what pov are you using, should you look from another
Deductive reasoning
Starts w/ statement/hypothesis, examines possibilities to reach specific conclusion
Inductive reasoning
starts w/ observations, forms generalizations
p-value
probability of making a type 1 error (rejecting null when it’s actually true)
- null: things are the same
parametric vs. non-parametric
non-parametric used when
- definite outliers
- not normally distributed
- ranked data
- unequal variance
linear regression
used when in/dependent variables are known
correlation test
used when there’s a known, unspecified relationship
unpaired test
data in groups are independent of each other
paired test
data in groups are related somehow
