Research design provides the glue that holds the research project together. A design is used to structure the research, to show how all of the major parts of the research project -- the samples or groups, measures, treatments or programs, and methods of assignment -- work together to try to address the central research questions.
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Welcome! This website is for people involved in applied social research and evaluation. You'll find lots of resources and links to other locations on the Web that deal in applied social research methods.
In most social research the data analysis involves three major steps, done in roughly this order:
Cleaning and organizing the data for analysis (Data Preparation)
Describing the data (Descriptive Statistics)
Testing Hypotheses and Models (Inferential Statistics)
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CONTEXT In education, tests are primarily used for
assessment, thus permitting teachers to assess the
efficacy of their curriculum and to assign grades.
However, research in cognitive psychology has shown
that tests can also directly affect learning by
promoting better retention of information, a
phenomenon known as the testing effect.
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