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Charles, C. M. – 1998
This book is designed to provide knowledge about educational research and to help graduate students in education organize and conduct their own research. No prior familiarity with the principles, procedures, or terminology of educational research is required. Chapters are: (1) "Educational Research: Its Nature and Rules of Operation"; (2) "Types…
Descriptors: Action Research, Correlation, Data Analysis, Data Collection
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Rozin, Paul; Jonides, John – Teaching of Psychology, 1977
Described is an in-class demonstration of mass reaction time which measures the speed of nerve impulses and the duration of various cognitive processes. A simpler version of the experiment for at-home use is described. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Behavioral Science Research, Class Activities, Cognitive Processes, Data Analysis
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Kempa, R. F.; Ward, J. E. – International Journal of Science Education, 1988
Reported are observational limits of detectability for several single stimulus and multi-stimuli observation tasks in secondary level chemistry. Provided are tables of actual results obtained including type of observation, chemical system used, method of determining stimulus magnitude, and observational thresholds. (Author/YP)
Descriptors: Chemistry, Data Interpretation, Experiments, Laboratory Experiments
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Edwards, Thomas G. – Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School, 1995
Describes an inquiry activity in which students explore the variables that influence the amount of time it takes a ball to roll down an inclined plane. Relates features of the activity to recommendations in the NCTM Standards. (MKR)
Descriptors: Data Collection, Experiments, Junior High Schools, Learning Activities
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Baro, John A.; And Others – Journal of Optometric Education, 1991
InSight, a series of 10 HyperCard stacks, provides optometry students with first-hand experience with a number of visual phenomena and a variety of experimental data acquisition and analysis techniques. Each stack contains background information on the experiment topic, instructions, references to the literature, and questions to be answered.…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software, Curriculum Design, Data Collection
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Wheatley, Charlotte L. – Arithmetic Teacher, 1979
A description of the use of experiments used as a teaching strategy in mathematics is given. (MK)
Descriptors: Activities, Data Collection, Elementary School Mathematics, Elementary Secondary Education