Category: Writing

1. What purposes might searching the Social Science Citation
Index serve? In addition to information about an article’s citation record,
what conclusions might the SSCI help you draw about an author or about a
journal?

What research methodology do you believe would be the most appropriate for investigating each of the following research questions?
How do parents conduct home schooling?
Does collaborative learning promote achievement in the college classroom?
What is the relationship between vocabulary and reading achievement in the primary grades?
Do parents support character education in the middle school curriculum?
What is the relationship between teachers’ undergraduate background (education versus liberal arts) and certain measures of competence in the classroom?
How did educational reforms of the junior high school lead to development of the middle school?
What is the influence of family composition on children’s conformity to the student role?
What kind of education do students receive in a church-sponsored Christian high school?
What is the extent of drug use among students in a suburban high school?

1. Explain the organization and the purpose of the Mental
Measurements Yearbook.
2. What conclusion could be drawn regarding a work,
published in 1966, that was cited in 20 articles listed in the 2009 Source
Index of SSCI?

Give an example of applied research completed in your fi eld
of interest. List other areas in which additional research needs to be done in
your fi eld. What variables might be investigated in such studies?

Conduct a search on the same general topic in both ERIC and
Education Index. Compare the usefulness of ERIC and Education Index in fi nding
related research on your topic. Compare and contrast two of the following: the
quality of abstracts, the journals covered, and the subject terms or
descriptors used by the index. Which index do you predict would be the most
useful in fi nding research on your topic?

1. Give an example of how basic research in the biological
sciences has improved the practice of medicine.
2. Give an example of how basic research in learning has
improved the practice of teaching

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