The document provides guidance for an educational research assignment involving quantitative data collection. It discusses selecting a sample of university students in Quito to study why students give up their careers. Permissions, instruments, and the types of quantitative data that would be collected are outlined. The document also reviews sections of a journal article such as the abstract, introduction, method, results, and references. An example journal article on teaching English is described addressing its purpose, justification, and use of a mixed quantitative and qualitative methodology.

1. Educational research I
assignment
Activity 1
Work strategies:
 Study the contents of chapter 5 “Collecting Quantitative Data” in your book.
 Write a paragraph (no more than 150 words) about the process of quantitative data
collection for a study of your choice.
 Specify the population and sample, the permissions you will need, the types of
quantitative information you will collect, and the instrument(s) you will use to collect
information.
Why do the university students give up their career?
I select a sample of the University students (sample)from the population of all university students
who are study in one of the first levels in any university in Quito (the population).
The permissions which may be required are: an informed consent, a permission from Ministry of
Education and the license from the campus on which we’ll conduct the research, and also
permission from our university or college institutional review board (Creswell W, 2012). An
Informed Consent is important, because it has all the information about the research and
confidentially of the people who participate in the study.
The instruments which will be use are tests, questionnaire, log and inventory, or assessment
instrument. And also instruments to measure achievement, assess individual ability, develop a
psychological profile of an individual, or attitudinal measures. For example, Iowa Test of Basic
Skills, Cognitive ability: Binet–Simon and General ability: Stanford–Binet IQ Scale for adults.
In fact, the results thrown by the instruments are Quantitative

2. Activity 2
Work strategies:
 Study the contents of chapter 9 “Reporting and evaluating research” in your book.
 Search the Internet for an example of a journal article related to teaching English.
 Once you find the journal article, answer the following questions:
1. What are the sections of the journal article (e.g. Abstract, introduction, literature
review, etc.)?
In fact, I prepare a journal article for readers of scholarly publications as well as
for the editor and individuals who review the study. A journal article is a polished,
shorter research report that you send to an editor of a journal. (Creswell W, 2012).
According to Creswell W. John and the American Psychologic Association, the parts of
the journal article are: title, name of author(s) and institutional affiliation, abstract,
introduction, method, results, discussion and references. (Association, 2010) (Creswell
W, 2012)
 A title is a simple summary of the main idea of the paper. It should identify the
main topic, the variables or theoretical issues of the investigation and the
relationship between them.
 Name of Author(s) and Institutional Affiliation: this section tell us which
institution(s) or organization(s) that the author(s) belong to and where the
research was conducted. It is common to have multiple authors who have
collaborated on the research and the writing of the paper.
 Abstract: is a brief, non-evaluative, comprehensive summary of the contents of
the article.
 Introduction: It describes the problem and how importance it is, and also has a
review of the relevant literature and the hypotheses and objectives of the study
(how is the design influenced by the hypotheses, what are the theoretical and
practical implications of the study)
 Method: It describes in detail how the study was conducted. the method usually
includes the following subsections: participants, materials and procedure.
 Results: Are the summarizes the date collected and the statistical treatment of
the data. It includes statements of the main result and conclusions. It’s really
common find tables and figures in this section.
 Discussion: It evaluates and interprets the implication of the results, includes a
clear statement of the support or non-support of the original hypotheses.
 References:Is a lists works cited in at the end of the article, in which get a credit
to the work of the previous researches and documents statements made about
literature.

3. Example of journal article related to teaching English.
The following example has been taken and adapted from (Holden).
2. What is the purpose of the study?
The purpose of the study from (Holden) is broader approach might best serve our
presumed audience of secondary English teachers, so it focuses on an inquiry approach
to constructing discussions in the classroom.
3. What is the justification to conduct the study?
Holden sawthe necessity of improve the learning strategies for structuring inquiry- based
classroom. In fact, the study starts with that necessity, according to Holden:
“We have seen inquiry learning strategies employed in such models as the open school
popularized in the 1960s, in problem-based learning, in research based learning, in
project-based learning, and in process writing approaches.” (Holden)
4. Does the study use a quantitative, qualitative, or mixed approach?
The present study had been used a mixed approach, becausetheir methodology involves
collecting, analyzing and integrating quantitative (experiments and surveys) and
qualitative (focus groups, interviews) research.

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