An educator uses research findings to adopt a more effective classroom strategy. This demonstrates research’s contribution to:
Research can directly improve educational practice.
Research can directly improve educational practice.
Uncontrolled simultaneous changes threaten experimental control.
Critical examination of evidence reflects analytical rigor.
Conclusions based on evidence reflect objectivity and lack of bias.
Permission is part of respecting the research site.
Research should minimize disruption to the setting.
Studying an unstudied population fills a knowledge gap.
Research is fundamentally systematic inquiry.
Contradictory evidence can lead to theory revision.
Research begins with a question, collects data, and provides an answer.
Expectancy theory includes valence, or personal value of the outcome.
Drive-reduction theory explains behavior as restoring physiological equilibrium.
Fluid intelligence tends to decline with age while crystallized intelligence may increase.
Mental age compares intellectual performance to age norms.
IQ scores can be affected by environmental and contextual factors.
Intrinsic motivation comes from internal satisfaction.
Interpersonal intelligence involves understanding others.
Intrapersonal intelligence involves understanding oneself.
Fluid intelligence is reasoning and solving novel problems.
Crystallized intelligence is accumulated knowledge and skills.
Inductive reasoning derives general rules from examples.
Musical intelligence involves sensitivity to rhythm, pitch, and melody.
Gestalt psychology influenced insight learning through sudden reorganization.