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Eksperimento planavimo gerinimas – svarbi edukologinių tyrimų kokybės prielaida
Improvement of experiment planning as an important precondition for the quality of educational research

Author(s): Aušra Rutkienė, Margarita Teresevičienė
Subject(s): Education
Published by: Vytauto Didžiojo Universitetas
Keywords: Doctoral Studies; experiment; validity; reliability; descriptive statistics; random sample; quasi-experimental; action research; pilot experiment.

Summary/Abstract: The article presents the stages of the experiment planning that are necessary to ensure the validity and reliability of it. The research data reveal that doctoral students of Educational Research approach the planning of the experiment as the planning of the whole dissertation research; and the experiment as a research method is often confused with the quasi-experiment, subordination, or action research.

  • Issue Year: 2010
  • Issue No: 07
  • Page Range: 88-107
  • Page Count: 19
  • Language: English
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