Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Descriptive Research in Educational Psychology


In previous post, we are that clear, on Experimental and Correlational Research. Let us move into another example of research in Educational Psychology: Descriptive Research.

Effective high school teachers: A mixed investigation
By Don P. Schulte a, John R. Slate b,*, Anthony J. Onwuegbuzie b

This descriptive research speaks about effective high school teachers and had been conducted in the United States. National Research Council in 2005 found out that, academic motivation decreases steadily from the early grades of elementary school into the high school. Indeed, the differences of the content knowledge used in both schools have caused the grades decrease. In addition, the researchers had covered themes such caring communication, creative, disciplinarian, fairness, flexible, friendly, fun, knowledgeable and so on. All themes are quantified and statistically analyzed to examine whether the differences were present as a function of gender, ethnicity, student status, and generational status. The analysis was also done to determine the characteristics that students perceive as indication of an effective classroom teacher at the high school level.
Survey had been used in this research. The students randomly selected for college of Education, college of Business and the college of Arts and Sciences. As a result, the importance in this research is to emphasize the significance of knowledge related to the changes in the education and also the subject matter.

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