1. Use the standards of adequacy presented in this chapter to evaluate the Box and Little article, a study of the effect of a specific type of cooperative learning on students’ selfconcept and achievement.
2. A researcher is interested in the way three different approaches to discipline work with fifth-graders. Student teachers were assigned randomly to one of three groups. Each group received instruction in a different approach to handling discipline problems. Each student teacher was then observed over a three-week period, and the frequency and duration of discipline problems were recorded.
