Kunal will be serving as a student teacher in a local school district next term. You are meeting with him this afternoon and want to make certain

Kunal will be serving as a student teacher in a local school district next term. You are meeting with him this afternoon and want to make certain he recognizes that there are three general learning styles that students exhibit. Name and describe those three types of learners.

A visual learner is one who retains more information by reading and seeing diagrams and flow charts.

An auditory learner is one who learns by listening to others such as in lectures, conversations and videos.

A kinesthetic learner is one who has a preference for doing things and learning from trial and error.

133. Discuss the kinds of questions researchers utilize on surveys.

Researchers use both open- and close-ended questions. Close-ended questions are those that have a series of responses supplied by the researcher. The study participant chooses the response that most closely matches his position.

Open-ended questions have no responses offered, leaving it up to the survey participant to supply responses.

134. Differentiate between a control group and a treatment group.

In a study employing an experimental design, the control group is the group that does not receive any experimental manipulation, while a treatment group is the group that does receive the experimental manipulation. A comparison between the two groups indicates the impact the treatment had in the study.

135. What is a meta-analysis?

A meta-analysis is a technique used by researchers to summarize what other researchers have found on a given topic. The analysis is based on taking observed correlations from multiple studies, weighing them by the number of observations in each study, and finding out if the overall effect holds or not.

136. Differentiate between reliability and validity.

Reliability is the consistency in a measurement.

Validity is the truth of the measurement or whether you are measuring what you intended to measure.

137. Differentiate between a causal and a correlational relationship.

A causal relationship is one in which one variable, event or situation causes a second variable, event or situation to occur. For example, individuals in asbestos-insulated buildings often contract cancer, and asbestos has been shown to be a carcinogen. Thus, asbestos causes cancer.

A correlational relationship is one in which the strength of the relationship between two variables is measured. For example, research indicates that as job satisfaction increases, so does job performance. Job satisfaction does not cause job performance, it simply increases it.

138. Define the concept of triple bottom line.

A triple bottom line is evaluating organizations against three performance criteria including economic, social and environmental viability. Wal-Mart, for example, looked at the impact packaging for its products had on its costs, on the environment and on its customers. Its findings led to the chain’s requirements for all suppliers to make smaller packages.

139. What is a “shamrock organization”?

A shamrock organization is a term coined by Charles Handy in his book, The Age of Paradox. The organization is comprised of one-third regular employees, one-third temporary employees and one-third consultants and contractors. Handy feels that this structure is the direction in which organizations are heading in the future.