The purpose of qualitative research in all of its various forms is to
a. provide rich descriptive accounts of events or experiences from the active participants.
b. understand different perspectives or points of views from the participants.
c. offer detailed explanations about a past historical event.
d. focus on a single group of individuals in order to gain an in-depth account of real life experiences.
e. All of these answers.
E
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Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
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A) metacognition B) enlightenment? C) assimilation? D) edutainment
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a. learning by doing b. learning from examples c. both require the same mental effort d. neither requires any mental effort
The author of your text states that, "For many students, spending time thoroughly discussing a few higher-level questions may be instructionally more valuable than answering numerous quick and easy questions." Which of these is not a reason why this is so?
A. This gives the teacher opportunity to model strategies. B. The teacher can prompt the student to use strategies he or she is in the process of learning. C. This provides an opportunity to prevent concept-driven processing. D. This provides opportunity for the teacher to explore a student's understandings and confusions about higher-level comprehension tasks—and to assist with unraveling the confusions.