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Video Clips

• Study: Facts Are More Important Than Novelty: Replication in the Education Sciences

The speaker discusses the scientific process and replication in educational research. In the current education research process, the focus is more on what’s new, the novelty, and not the process. Replication, the cornerstone of research, is missing from modern educational research.
Relevant Learning Objective: LO 2-2; Describe the scientific method and how it can be applied to education research topics

• Conversations with Vanessa Siddle Walker

In this video, Professor at Emory University, Siddle Walker discusses the importance of educational research.
Relevant Learning Objective: LO 2-8; Describe the importance of results, conclusions, and recommendations in a research study

• The Research Process

In this education research video, the research process is discussed from the beginning, identifying the research problem, to the end, reporting on the research.
Relevant Learning Objective: LO 2-1; Summarize various activities that must be conducted during each step of the educational research process

• Practical Issues of Social Research

This video looks at the reality of undertaking research compared with the normative model found in textbooks. It also discusses negotiating access into the field and maintaining good relations there.
Relevant Learning Objective: LO 2-1; Summarize various activities that must be conducted during each step of the educational research process