Quantifying Research Problems

Choose one of these scenarios. You will create a fictional context around the data relevant to your own interests and use that context to guide the development of your mini-project throughout the rest of the course.... Please use the scenario which you are most comfortable writing/finding information one. Scenario #2: Teachers in a suburban school district have completed a validated survey called the DET Needs instrument to determine and assess their needs concerning design, engineering, and technology (DET) education (Yasar et al., 2006). Scenario #3: Archival data of 2 years of standardized test scores in core subjects for students in Grades 7-12 in an urban school district are available. Develop an original response to the following questions: Based on the source articles for scenarios #2, or based on hypothetical standardized test scores in scenario #3, what are the data trying to measure? Attitudes, knowledge, beliefs, or something else? Which scales of measurement are being used in the scenario you chose (nominal, ordinal, interval, ratio)? Why does this scenario interest you, and how does it relate (even tangentially) to your professional context and potential dissertation or research project direction?