Answer to Question #184080 in Management for Helvi

Question

Study the research description below and answer the questions that follow

An educational research is interested in studying the relationship between learners’ participation in two after school programs and academic achievement. Learners were grouped into two groups. One group of learners participated in an after school program that emphasized critical thinking while the other group participated in an after school program that emphasized rote memorization.

1.1 State the appropriate research design for this study. Justify your choice.

1.2 The academic achievement level of the learners before participating in the two programs was not established. What limitations could this have on the study and its validity? (2)

1.3 If the researcher could have tested learners’ academic achievement level before and after their participation in the two after school program, what will the researcher call these tests before and after students’ participation in the programs? (2)

Answer 1

State the appropriate research design for this study. Justify your choice? Critical thinking is, at heart, questioning what you are told instead of taking it at face value. It is evaluating information in a rational framework where facts and reason line up to support or fail to support assertions. Critical thinking skills are highly sought, and have a number of benefits in life. However, with the upsides comes certain downsides.

1.2 academic achievement level of the learners before participating in the two programs was not established. What limitations could this have on the study and its validity? (2) DISADVANTAGES Of memorization

The drawbacks of learning by memorization include:

• Can be repetitive
• Easy to lose focus
• Doesn’t allow for a deeper understanding of a subject
• Doesn’t encourage the use of social skills
• No connection between new and previous knowledge
• May result in wrong impression or understanding a concept

Limitations of critical thinking

• The downside of critical thinking skills is that they can lead you into new and frightening territory. You might find yourself questioning the values, even the religion, by which you were raised. There is a certain existential comfort in someone else telling you how the world works, then blindly clinging to those tenets. The price of this simple comfort is forgoing a deeper understanding of how the world works, and all the opportunities this deeper thinking provides. While you can use your thinking skills to find new tenets that make sense, a modified version of those original tenets, or a new understanding of those original.
• the researcher could have tested learners’ academic achievement level before and after their participation in the two after school program, what will the researcher call these tests before.

• 1.3 If the researcher could have tested learners’ academic achievement level before and after their participation in the two after school program, what will the researcher call these tests before and after students’ participation in the programs? (2)the performance for the critical thinking Group will be better than the performance for the memorization group.... Memorization I performance may deteriorate and forget the content.Critical thinking Group may actually perform better than before.