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| The study of learners, learning and teaching or the accumulated knowledge, wisdom and seat of the pants theory that every teacher should possess to solve the daily problems of teaching. |
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| The study of teaching and learning with applications to the instructional process. |
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| Doing things for a purpose; teachers who use intentionality plan their actions based on outcomes they want to achieve. |
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| The degree to which teachers feel that their own efforts determine the success of their students |
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| Evaluation of conclusions through logical and systematic examination of the problem, the evidence and the solution. |
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| Explanation of the relationship between factor, such as the effects of alternative grading systems on student motivation. |
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| A set of principles that explains and relates certain phenomena. |
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| A special program that is the subject of an experiment. |
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| Something that can have more than one value. |
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| Procedure used to test the effect of a treatment. |
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| Selection by chance into different treatment groups; intended to ensure equivalence of the groups. |
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| Experiment in which conditions are highly controlled. |
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| The degree to which an experiment's results can be attributed to the treatment in question, not to other factors. |
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| Randomized Field Experiment |
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| Experiment conducted under realistic conditions in which individuals are assigned by chance to receive different practical treatments or programs. |
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| Group that receives treatment during an experiment. |
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| Group that receives no special treatment during an experiment. |
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| Degree to which results of an experiment can be applied to real-life situations. |
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| Experiment that studies a treatment's effect on one person or one group by contrasting behavior before, during and after application of the treatment. |
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| Research into the relationships between variables as they naturally occur. |
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| Relationship in which high levels of one variable correspond to high levels of another. |
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| Relationship in which high levels on one variable correspond to low levels of another. |
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| Variables for which there is no relationship between high/low levels on one and high/low levels of the other. |
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| Research study aimed at identifying and gathering detailed information about something of interest. |
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| Research carried out by educators in their own classrooms or school.s |
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