9/3 Learning Log Ed Research Ch. 1....

This week in class we discussed research in educational psychology.

What? (Why is it important?) Understanding different ways of research including descriptive, correlational, experimental, and action can help us teach our students by offering us knowledge on past experiments/research so that we can better our teaching techniques.

So what? Dividing into groups and using different examples in our classroom really helped me to understand the different research methods. Just reading about it in the book was not enough but putting examples together helped to bring it together. Also, showing the pros/cons and different ways of assessment for each method helped me to understand how it could benefit me as a teacher.

Now what? (How it can be applied) Knowing about the different methods of research will help me as a teacher to understand studies/experiments and even to conduct some of my own. I learned that you can eliminate a lot ethical bias if the research is done over a longer period of time.