Educational research has several purposes. Name and describe these four purposes.
What will be an ideal response?
a. A good answer should cover each purpose:
• Descriptive research: provides important information about “what is” and thus provides opportunities to understand and critique existing practices in the education system
• Predictive research: designed to help practitioner-scholars anticipate what “could be” given particular changes in outcomes, such as student achievement, teacher behavior, or parent relationships
• Explanatory research: enables researchers to generate theoretical understandings of current practices, programs, processes, and policies to explain “why”
• Improvement-oriented research: seeks to address practice, as it uses knowledge derived through research to identify what could be if particular actions or reforms were adopted; underlies each of the three previous purposes
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What will be an ideal response?
A term used to describe how primary caregivers can influence the development of emotional and behavioral self-regulation in the developing child is:
A. Inter-regulation B. Mutual regulation C. Co-regulation D. Syncho-regulation
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competence. Indicate whether the statement is true or false
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a. True b. False