#educational research

[demi-raven]

As an educator, I adore Duolingo, but I also see its limitations and corruptions. For example:

"Well done completing this level! Here's a reward of 5 'gems'!" No, my reward was the dopamine I got from learning something new. You're trying to stimulate my outer motivation instead of my inner motivation, and I don't like it.

"You ran out of hearts! Are you sure you want to exit this lesson? All the progress of the lesson will be lost." Hahaha no, you can't remove the knowledge I already put in my brain. I will gladly take a break and redo this lesson later for better retention.

"Why not upgrade to Super Duolingo? Users who upgrade are 4.2 times more likely to finish their course!" That statistic may be accurate for the wrong reasons. Learners who decide to pay may be more motivated than the average user to commit in the first place. They may also be less likely to drop out because of sunk cost. There's no actual evidence that paying will give me better tools to learn besides removing ads and wait times. You would need blind studies with a control group to prove it.

[educationalpsychjunkie]

Class starts next week and I am getting ready to Ace it!

[oops-allsquids]

Experiencing a special kind of pain right now.

Knowing too much about a topic to watch documentaries about it (since they generally repeat the basic knowledge on topics to appeal to a wider audience) but really wanting to learn more about the topic without spending money on books or official educational materials.

Anyway if anyone knows any good resources on black holes (or any topic really) feel free to link them in the reblogs, legal or not.

[reality-detective]

1963 Refrigerator 🤔

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[thisisgraeme]

Celebrating Educator Experiences: The Role of Anecdata and Case Studies in Understanding Teaching

What the heck is “anecdata”? Last week, while tuning into a podcast featuring Dr. Andrew Huberman, a renowned neuroscientist with a vast online following, and Tim Ferriss, famous for his self-experimentation and books like “The Four Hour Workweek,” I stumbled upon an intriguing term: “anecdata“. This blend of ‘anecdote’ and ‘data’ was used repeatedly to describe the evidence underpinning their…

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[inkskinned]

the thing is there's like, a point of oversaturation for everything, and it's why so many things get dropped after a few minutes. and we act like millennials or gen z kids "have short attention spans" but... that's not quite it. it's more like - we did like it. you just ruined it.

capitalism sees product A having moderate success, and then everything has to come out with their "own version" of product A (which is often exactly the same). and they dump extreme amounts of money and environmental waste into each horrible simulacrum they trot out each season.

now it's not just tiktokkers making videos; it's that instagram and even fucking tumblr both think you want live feeds and video-first programming. and it helps them, because videos are easier to sneak native ads into. the books coming out all have to have 78 buzzwords in them for SEO, or otherwise they don't get published. they are making a live-action remake of moana. i haven't googled it, but there's probably another marvel or starwars something coming out, no matter when you're reading this post.

and we are like "hi, this clone of project A completely misses the point of the original. it is soulless and colorless and miserable." and the company nods and says "yes totally. here is a different clone, but special." and we look at clone 2 and we say "nope, this one is still flat and bad, y'all" and they're like "no, totally, we hear you," and then they make another clone but this time it's, like, a joyless prequel. and by the time they've successfully rolled out "clone 89", the market is incredibly oversaturated, and the consumer is blamed because the company isn't turning a profit.

and like - take even something digital like the tumblr "live streaming" function i just mentioned. that has to take up server space and some amount of carbon footprint; just so this brokenass blue hellsite can roll out a feature that literally none of its userbase actually wants. the thing that's the kicker here: even something that doesn't have a physical production plant still impacts the environment.

and it all just feels like it's rolling out of control because like, you watch companies pour hundreds of thousands of dollars into a remake of a remake of something nobody wants anymore and you're like, not able to afford eggs anymore. and you tell the company that really what you want is a good story about survival and they say "okay so you mean a YA white protagonist has some kind of 'spicy' love triangle" and you're like - hey man i think you're misunderstanding the point of storytelling but they've already printed 76 versions of "city of blood and magic" and "queen of diamond rule" and spent literally millions of dollars on the movie "Candy Crush Killer: Coming to Eat You".

it's like being stuck in a room with a clown that keeps telling the same joke over and over but it's worse every time. and that would be fine but he keeps fucking charging you 6.99. and you keep being like "no, i know it made me laugh the first time, but that's because it was different and new" and the clown is just aggressively sitting there saying "well! plenty of people like my jokes! the reason you're bored of this is because maybe there's something wrong with you!"

[spadesurvey]

Importance and Method Of Educational Research

What is Educational Research?

The scientific field of study in which education, as well as learning processes, are being examined and the human interactions, attributes, institutions as well as organizations that shape educational outcomes.

Educational research also refers to the systematic analysis and collection of knowledge related to the educational sector generally with a view to an improving its efficiency. Educational Research may involve a range of methods and many aspects of education such as student learning, teacher training, teaching methods, and classroom dynamics.

Educational research is the key point in the overall development of training and strategy formulation.

Characteristics of Education Research

Judgment

You need to have a capability of judgement while you are working in the world of research. Educational researchers must resolve the problem of asking for help when they meet obstacles in terms of gaining the best results. The researchers could get the result in mistakes, wastage of time or worthless resources if they failed to do perfect research. The validity of decisions and documentation must redirect to the judgement that will stand peer analysis as they have doing in depth studies and challenge theories. Educational researchers who own this characteristic will have capable for good judgment.

Experiential Nature

Educational Research requires step by step proving mechanism, confirmation, and evidence. These steps are mostly useful in scientific research but it is also the basic required characteristic in any research. All types of research apply this process but only a real proven work is considered as a successful research.

Understanding the reason and consequence of a Problem

The whole research process is to know the actual problem. So it’s expected to have a need to find out the cause and effect of it. The root is the only cause of the solution to any problem. So, in simple words, we can say that cause and effect are the ways to the solution of the problem.

Communication

Communication is very helpful for researchers when it comes to creating and maintaining operative teams to get the best educational research productivity. An educational researcher works with complex theories and detailed information so they must make sure communication accuracy and efficiency while working in the research field.

Educational researchers need frequently translate complex information to audiences with equal to less technical backgrounds, so a short and simplified style is a suitable option. Solid written skills will help educational researchers inform, convince and teach stakeholders. Researchers should also be with modern approaches with social media awareness and marketing concepts to promote their work and projects.

Method of Data Collection

Another essential factor for educational research is Data Collection. Data collection is the best way to solve the problem of your solution. Only accurate data can provide you with the results of the problem. Data collection can consist of two ways – Primary and Secondary sources. Most researchers trust primary data and come up with great ideas, but secondary data is the source to support those ideas and decisions.

Importance of Educational Research

The key purpose of educational research is to expand existing knowledge by resolving solutions to different problems in the education field with better improvements in learning and teaching methods. Educational researchers also search for answers to questions troubling learner inspiration, progress, and teaching space management

Basically, research generates innovative ideas, builds authority, and develops understanding and analytical skills so that the researcher could apply his or her efforts to justify the work and build a superior foundation for admirers in the career field so they could take the correct decision in the accurate time without any obstacles.

Educational Research Methods

Interviews

Interviews can take several forms in educational research from structured or semi-structured to formless or informal, and can offer specific strengths and challenges based on the research purpose. Interviews can yield detailed information and can be mainly useful if you want to examine experiences, opinions, or approaches, but the process of planning and conducting them needs time and attention, and researchers can be faced a number of different choices during the research process.

Focus groups

Focus groups are used to get many of the advantages of a one-to-one interview, but with the important difference that they provide a collective rather than a distinct view.

Participants interact with each other instead of with the interviewer in a focus group, and it is from the group interactions that the data occur.

Observation

Observation is required in educational research when you have to understand how or why something happens, and this can be a mainly real data collection method when information gathered from people is possible to be different from actual information.

Observation methods can take place in many forms across a wide spectrum mainly ranging from complete or free to highly selective or highly structured. All includes advantages and disadvantages as well as particular ethical and practical concerns. There is also a different level of participation that a researcher can undertake and this can have an important behavior on the data collection method and the type that the analysis will take.

Concept maps

Concept mapping is an educational practice to help students see clearly how new concepts can be related to earlier learned concepts

Surveys

Surveys generally search for data from large numbers of people. Some surveys gather information from entire populations of people. For instance, a school could survey all its learners, or all their paternities, to get their opinion about school some concerns relating to school policy.

In such circumstances, a high-profit rate or at least ensures that everyone qualified to respond has equal opportunity, may be enough for the findings to be of import.

Conclusion

Educational Research is important when you are running an organization where you are making a future for the next generation with your school or institute. Educational Research provides you a complete insight into your teaching and learning methods for the learners and teachers.

Spade Survey is a Market Research Firm and Data Collection Company that can conduct Educational Research for various organizations. The purpose of Spade Survey’s educational research is to cultivate new knowledge about the teaching-learning situation to progress educational practices.

[criminaljusticemark]

Integrating Constructivist Teaching Strategies for First-Year Criminal Justice Students

Constructivist learning theory is a learning concept that students build knowledge based upon their prior knowledge and learning from the world around them (Hrynchak & Batty, 2012; Yoders, 2014). Lev Vygotsky, John Dewey, and Jean Piaget are the main theorists in the development of constructivist learning (Hrynchak & Batty, 2012; Yoders, 2014). Constructivist learning is a good match for…

[constantly-deactivated]

Epic answer by Morgan Freeman 🤔

[jstor]

Searching best practices on JSTOR

Hi Tumblr researchers,

As promised, we're going to dive into some best practices for searching on JSTOR. This'll be a long one!

The first thing to note is that JSTOR is not Google, so searches should not be conducted in the same way.

More on that in this video:

Basic Search on JSTOR

To search for exact phrases, enclose the words within quotation marks, like "to be or not to be".

To construct a more effective search, utilize Boolean operators, such as "tea trade" AND china.

Advanced Searching on JSTOR

Utilize the drop-down menus to refine your search parameters, limiting them to the title, author, abstract, or caption text.

Combine search terms using Boolean operators like AND/OR/NOT and NEAR 5/10/25. The NEAR operator finds keyword combinations within 5, 10, or 25 words of each other. It applies only when searching for single keyword combinations, such as "cat NEAR 5 dog," but not for phrases like "domesticated cat" NEAR 5 dog.

Utilize the "Narrow by" options to search for articles exclusively, include/exclude book reviews, narrow your search to a specific time frame or language.

To focus your article search on specific disciplines and titles, select the appropriate checkboxes. Please note that discipline searching is currently limited to journal content, excluding ebooks from the search.

Finding Content You Have Access To

To discover downloadable articles, chapters, and pamphlets for reading, you have the option to narrow down your search to accessible content. Simply navigate to the Advanced Search page and locate the "Select an access type" feature, which offers the following choices:

All Content will show you all of the relevant search results on JSTOR, regardless of whether or not you can access it.

Content I can access will show you content you can download or read online. This will include Early Journal Content and journals/books publishers have made freely available.

Once you've refined your search, simply select an option that aligns with your needs and discover the most relevant items. Additionally, you have the option to further narrow down your search results after conducting an initial search. Look for this option located below the "access type" checkbox, situated at the bottom left-hand side of the page.

Additional resources

For more search recommendations, feel free to explore this page on JSTOR searching. There, you will find information on truncation, wildcards, and proximity, using fields, and metadata hyperlinks.

[educationalpsychjunkie]

New course, new notes

[undertheredhood]

AU where jason todd goes back to school and gets a phd because while he was describing his multi-step plan to take over gotham and use bruce to kill the joker to talia she just said “oh, so you want to become a useless dropout just like your brother and father? talk about setting a bad example for damian.” which offended jason so much that he immediately re-enrolled to finish high school.

[reality-detective]

Old Lighters 🤔

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