Category: Writing

Based on the titles, classify each of the following studies
according to the research
methodology most likely used:
a. Gender-Based Differential Item
Performance in Mathematics
b. Improving Math Skills of High School
Students
c. College Students’ Views and Ratings of
an Ideal Professor
d. Effect of Early Absence of Father on
Scholastic Aptitude
e. An Alternative High School: An In-Depth
Study
f. An Analysis of Social Studies Textbooks
Used in Russian Middle Schools to
Determine How America Is Portrayed

1. A principal wants to know if it is benefi – cial to keep
class sizes small in kindergarten to grade 2. Write an appropriate research
question designed to answer this question.
2. Classify the following studies as most likely
being quantitative or qualitative:
a. Life of an Adolescent with HIV Infection
b. High School Principals’ Perspectives on
Student Expulsion
c. The Effect of Ability Grouping on
Academic Outcomes for Gifted Students
d. Racial Stereotypes in Middle School
Literature Textbooks
e. Teaching in an Alternative High School

State the most likely independent and
dependent variables in the following studies:
a. Peer interactions in children with autism
b. The effect of participation in school
sports on the social skills of mentally
challenged adolescents
c. The effect of an early intervention program on the
academic achievement of
children from low-income families
d. The infl uence of an antismoking program on the attitudes
of middle school
students toward smoking

Evaluate the following research
problems:
a. Should learning-disabled students be
mainstreamed in middle school English
classes?
b. Has No Child Left Behind legislation
been good for U.S. education?
c. Would it be wise to have a dress code for
the city’s high schools?
d. What is the relationship between verbal
aptitude scores and reading test scores?

The following examples are inadequate
statements of research problems. Restate
each so that it becomes a specifi c question
suitable for research.
a. A later morning start for the high school
b. Parental involvement and elementary
school achievement
c. Self-concept of children with learning
disabilities
d. Home-schooled adolescents
e. Gender differences and logical thinking
skills of talented preadolescents
f. Teaching students with attention defi cit/
hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
g. Predicting achievement in a graduate
education program

Select a broad area in which you might be interested in
doing research and then identify a research problem in that area. State this
problem in an acceptable form for research. What was the source of this
problem?

Find a qualitative research report published in a journal
and identify the
a. Problem
b. Methodology
c. Findings
d. Conclusions