EDUC 10 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Confounding, Categorical Variable, Dependent And Independent Variables
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Education 10 chapter 2 9/29/16: research problems and questions. The research problem is one or more sentences that indicate the goals, purpose and direction of the study: research problems contain: context, signi cance and purpose. Taking a theory that has implications for educational practice. Theories from other related areas that can extend to education. Variables are made of attributes or levels that are categories: conceptional de nition-uses words or concepts to describe the variable, operational de nition-de nes a concept by how it is measured or manipulated. Independent variable- precedes, in uences, or predicts the dependent variable: dependent variable- affected or predicted by the independent variable. Extraneous variable-source of error affecting the results: confounding variable- varies systematically with the independent variable, continuous variable- measured variable that has in nite values within a range, categorical variable- groups de ned by speci c characteristics. The problem should be researchable- answered by collecting and analyzing data.
