How to gather data for educational research

The topic I am persuing for the research paper is "Fathers' involvement and their children's academic success". The research problem is to "examine the link between increased paternal (fatherly) involvement and a child's academic achievement in school". The main research hypothesis would be "increased fathers' involvement causes better academic achievement for children". Gathering the data is part of the problem I have - I am much more likely to get responses from involved fathers than non involved fathers. Teachers may not be the best judge of involvement of the fathers. What about single parent families? What should I use to judge academic success? As an outsider I would need speci... click for more

Education Research

Answer the followings with examples: 1. How can you use data from surveys, interviews, or questionnaires in a research project? 2. How can you use immediate student evaluation data (course test scores, etc.) in a research project? 3. How can you use student evaluation data from standardized tests in a research project? 4. Describe your process for developing a survey. How do you go about it? 5. How can a Likert scale be useful in collecting responses on questionnaires or surveys? 6. What concerns should you have about reliability and validity of instruments? 7. What is inter-rater reliability, and how might it concern your research process?

Developing Instruction

Describe the advantages and disadvantages of at least four types of delivery materials, such as text, videoconferencing, audio-conferencing, etc. Provide examples of each type of delivery material. Delivery Material #1. - Advantages - Disadvantages - Example A Example B Example C Delivery Material #2. - Advantages - Disadvantages - Example A Example B Example C Delivery Material #3.- Advantages - Disadvantages - Example A Example B Example C Delivery Material #4. - Advantages - Disadvantages - Example A Example B Example C Then prepare a brief report on a summary explanation of: 1. The ways, in which media and materials selection in the de... click for more

Questions for research

I am a manager of a corporate training department for a large multi-national corporation. My department has been conducting an analysis of learning outcomes based on the application of web based learning tools in concert with traditional face-to-face instruction. During the past year, my department conducted four sessions of an Interpersonal Skills course as part of this research project. The course was designed as an overview of interpersonal communication. The course goal was to improve the interpersonal communication in the workplace. Two sessions of the course (the control group) were taught using traditional instructional tools and were not supported by a web based instructional pla... click for more

This posting focuses on human subject research.

This posting answers the following questions: 1. What is the general purpose of a human subjects review? 2. What kinds of people within a school would you ask to be on the review panel? Explain the reasons for choosing each person. 3. Give examples of projects within the school that may require careful review before they are approved and of those that may be exempt from human studies review requirements.