Deck 12: Research Report

Question 1

Which of the following best defines a research report?​

A) ​It is a condensed form of an original text that presents the thesis and key points.
B) ​It is an account of a memorable experience covering a designated span of time.
C) ​It is an explanation of a series of steps that bring about a result.
D) ​It is a carefully planned form of informational writing that cites outside sources.

Answer 1

D

Question 2

The purpose of a research report is to​

A) ​inform.
B) ​persuade.
C) ​entertain.
D) ​both a and b

Answer 2

A

Question 3

If a research report is written in the third person (he, she, it, and they), the writer most likely used​

A) ​a persuasive approach that aims to convince the reader to agree with the writer's stance.
B) ​a subjective approach that includes personal thoughts and feelings.
C) ​an objective approach that is factual.
D) ​none of the above

Answer 3

C

Question 4

Which of the following is the best version of a thesis statement about charter schools?​

A) ​A charter school is a tax-supported school established by a charter between a school board and an outside group of teachers or parents.
B) ​A charter school operates without most local and state educational regulations.
C) ​Charter schools are often established in large cities.
D) ​Charter schools are nontraditional schools supported by poorer neighborhoods for a variety of reasons.

Question 5

Directions: Read the following excerpt adapted from the sociology textbook Sociology in a Changing World by William Kornblum. and apply the knowledge you have gained about research reports from Chapter 12 to select the best answer for the following questions. (Assume that the missing paragraphs are part of the research report.)
School Choice
?¹ One of the most controversial issues confronting education institutions today is that of school choice. Among conservative school reformers, school choice often means plans to allow students to choose private schools as well as public ones by giving parents vouchers to pay for tuition and leaving them free to decide where and how they will use the vouchers. These "free-market" school choice plans have been popular among conservatives since the 1950s, when economist Milton Friedman first suggested this approach. In fact, parents and citizens should understand that "school choice" involves several types of choices, and all taxpayers should be familiar with their outcomes (Kornblum, 2012).
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² At this writing, a great deal of research is being conducted to evaluate one or another of the school choice initiatives. Note, however, that the range of choice is so wide that no single study can demonstrate the overall effect of school choice on all the desirable outcomes of education (for example, knowledge, mobility, equality, morality, citizenship). And there are so many actual school choice behaviors-including moving to better school districts, homeschooling children, vouchers or education grants, and the choice among parochial, private, and public schools-that researchers are hard-pressed to respond to the challenges presented by these changes in educational institutions (Fuller &Ellmore, 1996). But most liberal critics of school choice plans are afraid that although greater choice is attractive to parents in poor school districts as well as to those in more affluent ones, the overall consequence of increasing choices among different types of schools will be to increase the segregation of students by class and race. And as such segregation increases, so will rate of failure in schools that have been abandoned by better students and more aware parents (Torres & Mitchell, 1998). Indeed, from this critical perspective, increasing racial segregation in public and private education can already be viewed as an outcome of school choice.
³Early results of social-scientific evaluations of student achievement provide little support for school choice and cash vouchers as superior to public schools. In a three-year study of Washington, D.C. primary schools, 1,300 students from low-income families were chosen by lot from about 20,000 applicants for cash payments that enabled them to choose a religious or secular private school and to attend that school for at least four years, beginning in the fourth grade. After three years at these schools, the students who received vouchers performed no better on standardized test than a control group of students who remained in the public schools (Wolf, Howell, & Peterson, 2000).
Which sentence reveals the thesis of this report??

A) ?One of the most controversial issues confronting education institutions today is that of school choice.
B) ?Among conservative school reformers, school choice often means plans to allow students to choose private schools as well as public ones by giving parents vouchers to pay for tuition and leaving them free to decide where and how they will use the vouchers.
C) ?These "free-market" school choice plans have been popular among conservatives since the 1950s, when economist Milton Friedman first suggested this approach.
D) ?In fact, parents and citizens should understand that "school choice" involves several types of choices, and all taxpayers should be familiar with their outcomes.

Question 6

Which of the following steps should happen first when planning and writing a research report?​

A) ​Create an outline identifying the main ideas and details in the order they are to be presented in the report.
B) ​Make note cards that begin with a question, include key information, and contain the source and page number.
C) ​Organize your note cards into groups that deal with each main supporting point, and then identify the categories and the most logical order.
D) ​Revise your draft by adding, deleting, rearranging, and reworking parts of your report.

Question 7

Directions: Read the following excerpt adapted from the sociology textbook Sociology in a Changing World by William Kornblum. and apply the knowledge you have gained about research reports from Chapter 12 to select the best answer for the following questions. (Assume that the missing paragraphs are part of the research report.)
School Choice
?¹ One of the most controversial issues confronting education institutions today is that of school choice. Among conservative school reformers, school choice often means plans to allow students to choose private schools as well as public ones by giving parents vouchers to pay for tuition and leaving them free to decide where and how they will use the vouchers. These "free-market" school choice plans have been popular among conservatives since the 1950s, when economist Milton Friedman first suggested this approach. In fact, parents and citizens should understand that "school choice" involves several types of choices, and all taxpayers should be familiar with their outcomes (Kornblum, 2012).
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² At this writing, a great deal of research is being conducted to evaluate one or another of the school choice initiatives. Note, however, that the range of choice is so wide that no single study can demonstrate the overall effect of school choice on all the desirable outcomes of education (for example, knowledge, mobility, equality, morality, citizenship). And there are so many actual school choice behaviors-including moving to better school districts, homeschooling children, vouchers or education grants, and the choice among parochial, private, and public schools-that researchers are hard-pressed to respond to the challenges presented by these changes in educational institutions (Fuller &Ellmore, 1996). But most liberal critics of school choice plans are afraid that although greater choice is attractive to parents in poor school districts as well as to those in more affluent ones, the overall consequence of increasing choices among different types of schools will be to increase the segregation of students by class and race. And as such segregation increases, so will rate of failure in schools that have been abandoned by better students and more aware parents (Torres & Mitchell, 1998). Indeed, from this critical perspective, increasing racial segregation in public and private education can already be viewed as an outcome of school choice.
³Early results of social-scientific evaluations of student achievement provide little support for school choice and cash vouchers as superior to public schools. In a three-year study of Washington, D.C. primary schools, 1,300 students from low-income families were chosen by lot from about 20,000 applicants for cash payments that enabled them to choose a religious or secular private school and to attend that school for at least four years, beginning in the fourth grade. After three years at these schools, the students who received vouchers performed no better on standardized test than a control group of students who remained in the public schools (Wolf, Howell, & Peterson, 2000).
What information is enclosed in parentheses in the following sentence? "After three years at these schools, the students who received vouchers performed no better on standardized test than a control group of students who remained in the public schools (Wolf, Howell, & Peterson, 2000)."

A) ?the identity of the writers who authored the source of this information, and the publishing date
B) ?the name of the study that determined this information
C) ?the name of the author of "School Choice."
D) ?none of the above

Question 8

Effective research requires the ability to​

A) ​select a topic that is neither too general nor too specific.
B) ​form a series of questions the research will need to answer.
C) ​narrow the sources by recognizing which are the most credible.
D) ​all of the above.

Question 9

Application of Skills
Directions: Apply the knowledge you have gained from Chapter 12 to select the best answer for the following questions.
​Which of the following is the best choice of topics for a five-page research report?

A) ​War in modern society
B) ​World War II
C) ​Warring behavior between neighboring gangs
D) ​The Vietnam War

Question 10

Directions: Read the following excerpt adapted from the sociology textbook Sociology in a Changing World by William Kornblum. and apply the knowledge you have gained about research reports from Chapter 12 to select the best answer for the following questions. (Assume that the missing paragraphs are part of the research report.)
School Choice
?¹ One of the most controversial issues confronting education institutions today is that of school choice. Among conservative school reformers, school choice often means plans to allow students to choose private schools as well as public ones by giving parents vouchers to pay for tuition and leaving them free to decide where and how they will use the vouchers. These "free-market" school choice plans have been popular among conservatives since the 1950s, when economist Milton Friedman first suggested this approach. In fact, parents and citizens should understand that "school choice" involves several types of choices, and all taxpayers should be familiar with their outcomes (Kornblum, 2012).
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² At this writing, a great deal of research is being conducted to evaluate one or another of the school choice initiatives. Note, however, that the range of choice is so wide that no single study can demonstrate the overall effect of school choice on all the desirable outcomes of education (for example, knowledge, mobility, equality, morality, citizenship). And there are so many actual school choice behaviors-including moving to better school districts, homeschooling children, vouchers or education grants, and the choice among parochial, private, and public schools-that researchers are hard-pressed to respond to the challenges presented by these changes in educational institutions (Fuller &Ellmore, 1996). But most liberal critics of school choice plans are afraid that although greater choice is attractive to parents in poor school districts as well as to those in more affluent ones, the overall consequence of increasing choices among different types of schools will be to increase the segregation of students by class and race. And as such segregation increases, so will rate of failure in schools that have been abandoned by better students and more aware parents (Torres & Mitchell, 1998). Indeed, from this critical perspective, increasing racial segregation in public and private education can already be viewed as an outcome of school choice.
³Early results of social-scientific evaluations of student achievement provide little support for school choice and cash vouchers as superior to public schools. In a three-year study of Washington, D.C. primary schools, 1,300 students from low-income families were chosen by lot from about 20,000 applicants for cash payments that enabled them to choose a religious or secular private school and to attend that school for at least four years, beginning in the fourth grade. After three years at these schools, the students who received vouchers performed no better on standardized test than a control group of students who remained in the public schools (Wolf, Howell, & Peterson, 2000).
?What information would the reader expect to see in the missing paragraphs?

A) ?Each paragraph will describe a different type of school choice.
B) ?Each paragraph will describe laws affecting school choice.
C) ?Each paragraph will describe the demographics of population for various schools.
D) ?Each paragraph will describe the federal laws and regulations governing schools.

Question 11

Directions: Read the following excerpt adapted from the sociology textbook Sociology in a Changing World by William Kornblum. and apply the knowledge you have gained about research reports from Chapter 12 to select the best answer for the following questions. (Assume that the missing paragraphs are part of the research report.)
School Choice
?¹ One of the most controversial issues confronting education institutions today is that of school choice. Among conservative school reformers, school choice often means plans to allow students to choose private schools as well as public ones by giving parents vouchers to pay for tuition and leaving them free to decide where and how they will use the vouchers. These "free-market" school choice plans have been popular among conservatives since the 1950s, when economist Milton Friedman first suggested this approach. In fact, parents and citizens should understand that "school choice" involves several types of choices, and all taxpayers should be familiar with their outcomes (Kornblum, 2012).
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² At this writing, a great deal of research is being conducted to evaluate one or another of the school choice initiatives. Note, however, that the range of choice is so wide that no single study can demonstrate the overall effect of school choice on all the desirable outcomes of education (for example, knowledge, mobility, equality, morality, citizenship). And there are so many actual school choice behaviors-including moving to better school districts, homeschooling children, vouchers or education grants, and the choice among parochial, private, and public schools-that researchers are hard-pressed to respond to the challenges presented by these changes in educational institutions (Fuller &Ellmore, 1996). But most liberal critics of school choice plans are afraid that although greater choice is attractive to parents in poor school districts as well as to those in more affluent ones, the overall consequence of increasing choices among different types of schools will be to increase the segregation of students by class and race. And as such segregation increases, so will rate of failure in schools that have been abandoned by better students and more aware parents (Torres & Mitchell, 1998). Indeed, from this critical perspective, increasing racial segregation in public and private education can already be viewed as an outcome of school choice.
³Early results of social-scientific evaluations of student achievement provide little support for school choice and cash vouchers as superior to public schools. In a three-year study of Washington, D.C. primary schools, 1,300 students from low-income families were chosen by lot from about 20,000 applicants for cash payments that enabled them to choose a religious or secular private school and to attend that school for at least four years, beginning in the fourth grade. After three years at these schools, the students who received vouchers performed no better on standardized test than a control group of students who remained in the public schools (Wolf, Howell, & Peterson, 2000).
The writer concludes from research that school choice and cash vouchers are a better option for students than attending their designated public school.?

Question 12

Directions: Read the following excerpt adapted from the sociology textbook Sociology in a Changing World by William Kornblum. and apply the knowledge you have gained about research reports from Chapter 12 to select the best answer for the following questions. (Assume that the missing paragraphs are part of the research report.)
School Choice
?¹ One of the most controversial issues confronting education institutions today is that of school choice. Among conservative school reformers, school choice often means plans to allow students to choose private schools as well as public ones by giving parents vouchers to pay for tuition and leaving them free to decide where and how they will use the vouchers. These "free-market" school choice plans have been popular among conservatives since the 1950s, when economist Milton Friedman first suggested this approach. In fact, parents and citizens should understand that "school choice" involves several types of choices, and all taxpayers should be familiar with their outcomes (Kornblum, 2012).
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² At this writing, a great deal of research is being conducted to evaluate one or another of the school choice initiatives. Note, however, that the range of choice is so wide that no single study can demonstrate the overall effect of school choice on all the desirable outcomes of education (for example, knowledge, mobility, equality, morality, citizenship). And there are so many actual school choice behaviors-including moving to better school districts, homeschooling children, vouchers or education grants, and the choice among parochial, private, and public schools-that researchers are hard-pressed to respond to the challenges presented by these changes in educational institutions (Fuller &Ellmore, 1996). But most liberal critics of school choice plans are afraid that although greater choice is attractive to parents in poor school districts as well as to those in more affluent ones, the overall consequence of increasing choices among different types of schools will be to increase the segregation of students by class and race. And as such segregation increases, so will rate of failure in schools that have been abandoned by better students and more aware parents (Torres & Mitchell, 1998). Indeed, from this critical perspective, increasing racial segregation in public and private education can already be viewed as an outcome of school choice.
³Early results of social-scientific evaluations of student achievement provide little support for school choice and cash vouchers as superior to public schools. In a three-year study of Washington, D.C. primary schools, 1,300 students from low-income families were chosen by lot from about 20,000 applicants for cash payments that enabled them to choose a religious or secular private school and to attend that school for at least four years, beginning in the fourth grade. After three years at these schools, the students who received vouchers performed no better on standardized test than a control group of students who remained in the public schools (Wolf, Howell, & Peterson, 2000).
The main purpose of this report is to persuade.?

Question 13

Which of the following might not appear in a preliminary bibliography as a source for the topic of charter schools ?​

A) ​Web sites for charter schools
B) ​a documentary about the rise of public education in the US
C) ​articles about charter schools in journals, magazines, and newspapers
D) ​books about charter schools

Question 14

Which of the following is the most useful in preparing to write a research report?​

A) ​bar chart
B) ​table diagram
C) ​organized list
D) ​T-chart

Question 15

Directions: Read the following excerpt adapted from the sociology textbook Sociology in a Changing World by William Kornblum. and apply the knowledge you have gained about research reports from Chapter 12 to select the best answer for the following questions. (Assume that the missing paragraphs are part of the research report.)
School Choice
?¹ One of the most controversial issues confronting education institutions today is that of school choice. Among conservative school reformers, school choice often means plans to allow students to choose private schools as well as public ones by giving parents vouchers to pay for tuition and leaving them free to decide where and how they will use the vouchers. These "free-market" school choice plans have been popular among conservatives since the 1950s, when economist Milton Friedman first suggested this approach. In fact, parents and citizens should understand that "school choice" involves several types of choices, and all taxpayers should be familiar with their outcomes (Kornblum, 2012).
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² At this writing, a great deal of research is being conducted to evaluate one or another of the school choice initiatives. Note, however, that the range of choice is so wide that no single study can demonstrate the overall effect of school choice on all the desirable outcomes of education (for example, knowledge, mobility, equality, morality, citizenship). And there are so many actual school choice behaviors-including moving to better school districts, homeschooling children, vouchers or education grants, and the choice among parochial, private, and public schools-that researchers are hard-pressed to respond to the challenges presented by these changes in educational institutions (Fuller &Ellmore, 1996). But most liberal critics of school choice plans are afraid that although greater choice is attractive to parents in poor school districts as well as to those in more affluent ones, the overall consequence of increasing choices among different types of schools will be to increase the segregation of students by class and race. And as such segregation increases, so will rate of failure in schools that have been abandoned by better students and more aware parents (Torres & Mitchell, 1998). Indeed, from this critical perspective, increasing racial segregation in public and private education can already be viewed as an outcome of school choice.
³Early results of social-scientific evaluations of student achievement provide little support for school choice and cash vouchers as superior to public schools. In a three-year study of Washington, D.C. primary schools, 1,300 students from low-income families were chosen by lot from about 20,000 applicants for cash payments that enabled them to choose a religious or secular private school and to attend that school for at least four years, beginning in the fourth grade. After three years at these schools, the students who received vouchers performed no better on standardized test than a control group of students who remained in the public schools (Wolf, Howell, & Peterson, 2000).
In an outline, what information would be included as part of the main point for paragraph 7??

A) ?the different types of school choice
B) ?the identities of researchers who study school choices
C) ?the history of segregation in schools
D) ?segregation as an outcome of school choice

Question 16

Which of the following questions will help the reader gain a thorough understanding of a research report?​

A) ​When was the report written?
B) ​What are the main ideas and key supporting points?
C) ​How many quotations does the author use?
D) ​What are the credentials of the author?

Question 17

If the topic for your research paper is charter schools , all of the following are good questions to ask except

A) What is a charter school, and why would students want to go there?
B) How can public schools become better at educating students?
C) ​Where are charter schools in my area?
D) How successful are the students who attend charter schools?

Question 18

The difference between a research report and a research paper is that​

A) ​a research report includes more personal experience than a research paper.
B) ​a research paper shares information while a research report defends a point of view.
C) ​a research report shares information while a research paper defends a point of view.
D) ​all of the above

Question 19

When considering a choice of topics for a research report, you should be sure that​

A) ​the topic is well suited to your interests and is neither too broad not too specific.
B) ​you can find enough information about the topic.
C) ​you have enough time to research and write about this topic.
D) ​all of the above

Question 20

One effective strategy to establish a starting point for your research is by​

A) ​identifying what you already know about the topic and what you need to learn.
B) ​deciding what information should be in the conclusion of your research report.
C) ​reading opinions by other experts in the field about the significance of your topic.
D) ​listing the types of supporting details that would best develop your topic of choice.