Practice

Structured Questions
1.Explain the definition or educational research.
2. Describe the characteristics of educational research.
3. Explain the differences between quantitative and qualitative approaches in
educational research.
4. Questionnaires were distributed to pupils in the classroom to find out about their
feelings of the use of mind map in describing about the characters in a short story.
a) What is the type of research and what is the purpose?
b) What is the type of research design used? Provide justification.
c) What are the characteristics of good items in a questionnaire?
5 (a). Explain what a researcher does in the observe phase of Kemmis and
McTaggarts (1988)
Action Research Model.
(b) Give 3 reasons to evaluate the value of the reflection phase in the model.
(c) Many are reluctant to view action research as a legitimate form of inquiry (Stringer,
2007).
Justify his statement with 2 reasons.
6. (i)Explain the differences between validity and reliability in action research.
(ii)Your colleague, Aminah is carrying out an action research to examine the
effectiveness of
Big Book to teach reading comprehension. Suggest to her some strategies to
ensure the
validity of her action research.
(iii) Using the concept of triangulation, suggest how the validity of Aminahs action
research
can be enhanced.
Essay Question
1 stimulus .
Develop an educational research procedure to help you collect data to investigate the
problem.
2. stimulus .
Develop a research proposal based on Kemnis and McTaggarts (1988) Action
Research Model.
3. . Stimulus

Propose and justify in detail suitable data collection methods and instruments for your
research.