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Download full textSirotnik, Kenneth A.; Hruby, Mary L. – 1971
This paper suggests ways of structuring the content of feedback experimentally to test hypotheses of interest. Use of the feedback process in this manner suggests a variety of research and intervention tactics, many of them unexplored and some of them implying ethically questionable conduct. Consideration of this question also helps illuminate the…
Descriptors: Feedback, Goal Orientation, Hypothesis Testing, Information Utilization
Trumbull, Deborah – 1983
Two issues of concern in education are addressed: (1) how should educational research be carried out and (2) why do practitioners so often fail to heed the findings from educational research? The author uses the conceptualization of Stephen Pepper which distinguished four different hypotheses about the nature of the world (formism, mechanism,…
Descriptors: Diffusion (Communication), Educational Research, Global Approach, Hypothesis Testing
Briggs, Leslie J. – Educational Technology, 1984
Presents 17 research paradigms students might employ for doctoral dissertations on instructional design, makes suggestions for students evaluating the literature and developing a conceptual framework for research, and summarizes dissertations developed by University of Florida doctoral students, classifying them into three research paradigms which…
Descriptors: Classification, Doctoral Dissertations, Higher Education, Hypothesis Testing
Roberts, Karlene H. – 1969
In order to make policy decisions, educators must evaluate educational research proposals and projects. Findings immediately related to practice are often inadequate, omitting the theoretical establishment of principles by which we can explain and predict the phenomena of our world. These theoretical linkages to the practical world of…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Control Groups, Data Analysis, Decision Making Skills
