Corporate performance in Education: The Impact of Experimental Research on Student Lateness

The Impact of Experimental Research on Student Lateness

Introduction

Experimental research is an investigative tool to determine the impacts of independent variable on dependable variable. Fraenken & Wallen (2009) states that experimental research helps researchers to go beyond description and prediction beyond the identification of relationship to at least a particular determination of what causes them. Experimental research develops cause-effect relationship between variables. It is carried out under controlled environment and it is a great tool to develop strong evidence or facts for causal impacts on variable.

One of the major roles of experimental research is to manipulate independent variable. An educational research changes the value of independent variable in a structural manner that will influence the dependable variable.

Causes of Lateness

The study of experimental research investigates the cause of student lateness and it can be considered as independent variable and the dependent variable is the student lack of attention in the classroom and low memory retention. Basically a student that does not have enough sleep at night, we greatly have high tendency to come late to school.

The independent variable is the treatment variable while the dependent variable is the criterion or outcome. Abraham (2006) recognized that internal validity exists when the experimental treatment has a noticeable impact on the dependable variable in the specific experimental instance under the consideration, when it can be shown that the independent variables as manipulated produced a change in the dependent variable as measured.

Furthermore, the school location may be a factor for student coming late to school, probably the student lives very far from school. Lack of time management, student may find it difficult to recognize his or her self to prepare for school.

Characteristic of Experimental Research

Data manipulation is an aspect of experimental research that helps researchers to manipulate independent variables and it is a kind of production process to investigate student lateness. Cook et al (2008) states that only one type of research design allows research consumers to draw conclusions as to whether a teaching practice works, and that is experimental research. Data manipulation helps researchers to manipulate how many number of student, duration of research study and also important for researchers to determine what happens to student coming late to student.

The impacts of extraneous variable and that include other factors that are totally different from factors that cause student coming late to school. Confounding variable is a kind of variable that is dynamic and changes across conditions and it is a form of extraneous variable.

Threat Facing Experimental Research

Problem of data manipulation sometimes is that researchers can find it difficult to manipulate independent variables and that will conversely affect the criterion or outcome. Controlling extraneous variable is another threat facing experimental research. A good researcher must carefully identify variables and apply necessary treatment that will produce meaningful outcome. It consists of the engineering methods, tools or labour the industry employs to create a viable method of manufacturing or development. According to (Siewiorek et al,2004), experimental research has technically helped researchers to  develop process that will be effective to produce an outcome.

Conclusion

This paper has greatly investigated the impact of experimental research on student lateness and the causes of student lateness to school were also discussed. The threat facing experimental research is a complex problem that researcher has to develop necessary instruments to tackle the problem. The study of experimental research has tremendously helped researchers to develop stronger evidence for causal reasons. The result obtained from experimental research is clear and meaningful

 

References

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Cook, L., Cook, B. G., Landrum, T. J., & Tankersley, M. (2008). Examining the role of group experimental research in establishing evidenced-based practices. Intervention in School and Clinic, 44(2), 76-82. Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com/docview/211751980?accountid=34574

 

Fraenkel, J. R., & Wallen, N. E. (2009). How to design and evaluate research in education. New York: McGraw-Hill.

Siewiorek, D. P., Chillarege, R., & Kalbarczyk, Z. T. (2004). Reflections on industry trends and experimental research in dependability. IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, 1(2), 109-127. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TDSC.2004.20