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Assignment:

Determine which of the following types of quantitative research is represented: descriptive observation, descriptive correlational, descriptive developmental, descriptive survey, experimental, quasi-experimental, or ex post facto.

1. A national telephone inquiry seeking to ascertain people's attitudes about various candidates for political office. (Leedy and Ormrod, 2013)
2. Two researchers want to see if a particular training program is effective in teaching horses to enter a horse trailer without misbehaving in the process - that is, without rearing, trying to turn around, or in some other way resisting entry into the trailer. Five horses go through the training, with each horse beginning training on a different day. For each horse, an observer counts the number of misbehaviors every day prior to and during the training, with data being collected for a time span of at least 45 days (Ferguson & Rosales - Ruiz, 2001).
3. A gerontologist might consider how retired people in their 70s, 80s and 90s tend to spend their leisure time (Leedy and Ormrod, 2013)
4. What roles do preschool teachers adopt during children's free- play period? The study took place during free-play sessions in Head Start classrooms, where 40 preschool teachers wore cordless microphones that transmitted what they said to a remote audiotape recorder. Each teacher was videotaped for 15 minutes on each of two different days. Following data collection, the tapes were transcribed and broken into 1 minute segments. Each segment was coded in terms of the primary role the teacher assumed during that time, with five possible roles being identified. Research assistants were trained (Kontos 1999)
5. A psycholinguist might examine how children's spoken language changes between 6 months and 5 years of age. (Leedy and Ormrod, 2013)
6. Two researchers wonder whether an eyewitness's memory of an event is affected by questions that he or she is asked subsequent to the event. To find out each, the researchers show adults a film that depicts a car accident. Each adult is then asked one of five questions (randomly selected) about the accident. The researchers compute the average speed given in response to each of the five questions to determine whether the questions have influenced participants' "memory" for the accident (Loftus & Palmer, 1974).
7. An investigation study investigating the impact of age on reading ability. Imagine that a researcher has a sample of 50 children and knows two things about these children: their age and their scores on a reading achievement test (the test scores indicate the approximate "grade level" at which the children are reading) (Leedy and Ormrod, 2013)
8. A researcher is desirous of determining the attitudes of grade school teachers towards the inclusion of Spanish speaking students in the general education classroom
9. A researcher wants to study the effects of illustrations in teaching science concepts to a class/group of sixth graders. Students studied 20 concepts (10 without illustrations and 10 with illustrations). The teacher then sought to determine if students did better on qui items for illustrated concepts than on items for non illustrated ones (Leedy and Ormrod, 2013)

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