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Questions 1-3 
Choose 
THREE 
letters 
A-E
.
 
Which 
THREE 
of the following statements are true as to the contemporary situation of Couran Cove Island 
Resort in the last paragraph? 
A. 
Couran Cove Island Resort goes for more eco-friendly practices. 
B. 
The accommodation standard only conforms to the Resort Development Spectrum of Phase 3. 
C. 
Couran Cove Island Resort should raise the accommodation standard and build more facilities. 
D. 
The principal group visiting the resort is international tourists. 
E.
Its carrying capacity will restrict the future businesses’ expansion. 

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Welcome to Mr Aslanov’s Lessons 
QUESTION-TYPE BASED TESTS 
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TEST 4 – Quantitative Research in Education 
 
Many education researchers used to work on the assumption that children experience different phases 
of development, and that they cannot execute the most advanced level of cognitive operation until they have 
reached the most advanced forms of cognitive process. For example, one researcher Piaget had a well-
known experiment in which he asked the children to compare the amount of liquid in containers with 
different shapes. Those containers had the same capacity, but even when the young children were 
demonstrated that the same amount of fluid could be poured between the containers, many of them still 
believed one was larger than the other. Piaget concluded that the children were incapable of performing the 
logical task in figuring out that the two containers were the same size even though they had different shapes, 
because their cognitive development had not reached the necessary phase. Critics on his work, such as 
Donaldson, have questioned this interpretation. They point out the possibility that the children were just 
unwilling to play the experimenter’s game, or that they did not quite understand the question asked by the 
experimenter. These criticisms surely do state the facts, but more importantly, it suggests that experiments 
are social situations where interpersonal interactions take place. The implication here is that Piaget’s 
investigation and his attempts to replicate it are not solely about measuring the children’s capabilities of 
logical thinking, but also the degree to which they could understand the directions for them, their willingness 
to comply with these requirements, how well the experimenters did in communicating the requirements and 
in motivating those children, etc. 
The same kinds of criticisms have been targeted to psychological and educational tests. For instance, 
Mehan argues that the subjects might interpret the test questions in a way different from that meant by the 
experimenter. In a language development test, researchers show children a picture of a medieval fortress, 
complete with moat, drawbridge, parapets and three initial consonants in it: D, C, and G. The children are 
required to circle the correct initial consonant for ‘castle’. The answer is C, but many kids choose D. When 
asked what the name of the building was, the children responded ‘Disneyland’. They adopted the reasoning 
line expected by the experimenter but got to the wrong substantive answer. The score sheet with the wrong 
answers does not include in it a child’s lack of reasoning capacity; it only records that the children gave a 
different answer rather than the one the tester expected.
Here we are constantly getting questions about how valid the measures are where the findings of the 
quantitative research are usually based. Some scholars such as Donaldson consider these as technical issues, 
which can be resolved through more rigorous experimentation. In contrast, others like Mehan reckon that the 
problems are not merely with particular experiments or tests, but they might legitimately jeopardise the 
validity of all researches of this type.
Meanwhile, there are also questions regarding the assumption in the logic of quantitative educational 
research that causes can be identified through physical and/or statistical manipulation of the variables. 
Critics argue that this does not take into consideration the nature of human social life by assuming it to be 
made up of static, mechanical causal relationships, while in reality, it includes complicated procedures of 
interpretation and negotiation, which do not come with determinate results. From this perspective, it is not 
clear that we can understand the pattern and mechanism behind people’s behaviours simply in terms of the 
casual relationships, which are the focuses of quantitative research. It is implied that social life is much more 
contextually variable and complex. 
Such criticisms of quantitative educational research have also inspired more and more educational 
researchers to adopt qualitative methodologies during the last three or four decades. These researchers have 
steered away from measuring and manipulating variables experimentally or statistically. There are many 
forms of qualitative research, which is loosely illustrated by terms like ‘ethnography’, ‘case study’, 
‘participant observation’, ‘life history’, ‘unstructured interviewing’, ‘discourse analysis’ and so on. 
Generally speaking, though, it has characteristics as follows:

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