tag:open.umn.edu,2005:/opentextbooks/textbooks?commit=Go&page=6&term=research+methodsOpen Textbook Library - Search results for "research methods"2021-01-11T05:04:01Zhttps://open.umn.edu/assets/common/favicon/favicon-1594c2156c95ca22b1a0d803d547e5892bb0e351f682be842d64927ecda092e7.icohttps://open.umn.edu/assets/library/otl_logo-f9161d5c999f5852b38260727d49b4e7d7142fc707ec9596a5256a778f957ffc.png9462021-01-11T18:39:43Z2024-01-22T14:52:19ZElementary Earth and Space Science Methods<img alt="Read more about Elementary Earth and Space Science Methods" title="Elementary Earth and Space Science Methods cover image" class="cover " width="350" height="233" data-controller="common--cover" data-placeholder="/assets/common/placeholder-0e0607cbc50663ddb9e8fd188058bcd2630c730ef6ee322801278607b7d5af8e.png" src="/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6MTkzMCwicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--021d13f1d50164257107d7f59975c9dc29db5457/IMG_1014-350x233.jpg" />We created this book to help you as both a college student and a future teacher. Dr. Ted Neal asked us to help him create this resource from the perspective of students who have taken Science Methods II–what would we want in a textbook for this course? With this in mind, we have gathered and created resources to help you better understand science and feel confident in your abilities as a future teacher. This book is divided into five parts which align with the Science Methods II course: Physics Space Science Earth Science Climate Science Course Materials and Pedagogy Within each part, the material is broken down into smaller chapters. Here you will find written explanations, video links, glossary terms, key takeaways, and practice quizzes to help you understand the material. This book is designed to be a flexible resource; use it as much or as little as you need throughout the course.11422022-03-01T23:46:08Z2024-01-22T14:52:30ZMathematics Methods for Early Childhood<img alt="Read more about Mathematics Methods for Early Childhood" title="Mathematics Methods for Early Childhood cover image" class="cover " width="683" height="1024" data-controller="common--cover" data-placeholder="/assets/common/placeholder-0e0607cbc50663ddb9e8fd188058bcd2630c730ef6ee322801278607b7d5af8e.png" src="/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6MzQzMywicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--92eaba69662051a55776b7086acaa9c44eddbdc4/cover-683x1024.jpg" />Welcome to Early Childhood Mathematics! This course satisfies the Early Childhood Unified requirements in the state of Kansas for a teaching license Birth to Grade 3. Most people agree that early childhood includes the period from infancy until eight years of age, characterized by rapid and complex growth in physical, cognitive, and social domains. Math skills must be taught in early childhood. Children should be provided a foundation to succeed in elementary school and beyond. Teachers should focus lessons in early childhood around the basic skills that will help to advance future mathematics. From preschool to the end of elementary school, children are setting the foundation for future life skills. Learning mathematics is “a ‘natural’ and developmentally appropriate activity for young children” (Ginsberg, Lee, and Boyd, 2008). Through their everyday interactions with the world, many children develop informal concepts about space, quantity, size, patterns, and operations. Unfortunately, not all children have the same opportunities to build these informal and foundational concepts of mathematics in their day-to-day lives (Sherman-LeVos, 2010). Young children are naturally curious, and the best time to begin mathematics is at a time while the young child’s brain is rapidly developing. Mathematics in early childhood helps children develop critical thinking and reasoning skills early on and it’s the key to the foundation for success in their formal schooling years.12102023-07-26T21:26:12Z2023-08-02T15:47:04ZMethods of Teaching Early Literacy<img alt="Read more about Methods of Teaching Early Literacy" title="Methods of Teaching Early Literacy cover image" class="cover " width="350" height="453" data-controller="common--cover" data-placeholder="/assets/common/placeholder-0e0607cbc50663ddb9e8fd188058bcd2630c730ef6ee322801278607b7d5af8e.png" src="/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6Nzg4NiwicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--ff5538aa276db4e0f30b31027274e434f12c1780/OER_Early-Literacy-Cover-350x453.png" />This textbook covers theories, teaching strategies, and instructional materials pertinent to teaching reading and writing in grades PK-3, with an emphasis on integrating reading, writing, speaking, and listening, as well as integration across content areas while addressing diversity and inclusion.13492023-02-20T14:44:23Z2024-01-22T14:52:40ZNumerical Methods for Ordinary Differential Equations<img alt="Read more about Numerical Methods for Ordinary Differential Equations" title="Numerical Methods for Ordinary Differential Equations cover image" class="cover " width="300" height="370" data-controller="common--cover" data-placeholder="/assets/common/placeholder-0e0607cbc50663ddb9e8fd188058bcd2630c730ef6ee322801278607b7d5af8e.png" src="/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6NDU1NSwicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--fd3b68009deeeda4d91b01a1623ef2844da77abd/submission_57_74_coverImage_en_US_t.png" />In this book we discuss several numerical methods for solving ordinary differential equations. We emphasize the aspects that play an important role in practical problems. We confine ourselves to ordinary differential equations with the exception of the last chapter in which we discuss the heat equation, a parabolic partial differential equation. The techniques discussed in the intro-ductory chapters, for instance interpolation, numerical quadrature and the solution to nonlinear equations, may also be used outside the context of differential equations. They have been in-cluded to make the book self-contained as far as the numerical aspects are concerned. Chapters, sections and exercises marked with a * are not part of the Delft Institutional Package. The numerical examples in this book were implemented in Matlab, but also Python or any other programming language could be used. A list of references to background knowledge and related literature can be found at the end of this book. Extra information about this course can be found at http://NMODE.ewi.tudelft.nl, among which old exams, answers to the exercises, and a link to an online education platform. We thank Matthias Moller for his thorough reading of the draft of this book and his helpful suggestions.14952023-09-28T22:10:35Z2024-01-22T15:05:54ZNumerical Methods in Scientific Computing<img alt="Read more about Numerical Methods in Scientific Computing" title="Numerical Methods in Scientific Computing cover image" class="cover " width="300" height="370" data-controller="common--cover" data-placeholder="/assets/common/placeholder-0e0607cbc50663ddb9e8fd188058bcd2630c730ef6ee322801278607b7d5af8e.png" src="/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6OTU4NSwicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--4252392e602cdff5e054f9e09f20c2fca0f75246/submission_70_87_coverImage_en_US_t.png" />This is a book about numerically solving partial differential equations occurring in technical and physical contexts and the authors have set themselves a more ambitious target than to just talk about the numerics. Their aim is to show the place of numerical solutions in the general modeling process and this must inevitably lead to considerations about modeling itself. Partial differential equations usually are a consequence of applying first principles to a technical or physical problem at hand. That means, that most of the time the physics also have to be taken into account especially for validation of the numerical solution obtained. This book aims especially at engineers and scientists who have ’real world’ problems. It will concern itself less with pesky mathematical detail. For the interested reader though, we have included sections on mathematical theory to provide the necessary mathematical background. Since this treatment had to be on the superficial side we have provided further reference to the literature where necessary.14962023-09-28T22:32:41Z2023-10-09T14:28:37ZClassical Numerical Methods in Scientific Computing<img alt="Read more about Classical Numerical Methods in Scientific Computing" title="Classical Numerical Methods in Scientific Computing cover image" class="cover " width="300" height="350" data-controller="common--cover" data-placeholder="/assets/common/placeholder-0e0607cbc50663ddb9e8fd188058bcd2630c730ef6ee322801278607b7d5af8e.png" src="/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6OTU4OCwicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--735b24851aa129204bfdb36cb407784bc4c1ce3c/submission_67_84_coverImage_en_US_t.png" />Partial differential equations are paramount in mathematical modelling with applications in engineering and science. The book starts with a crash course on partial differential equations in order to familiarize the reader with fundamental properties such as existence, uniqueness and possibly existing maximum principles. The main topic of the book entails the description of classical numerical methods that are used to approximate the solution of partial differential equations. The focus is on discretization methods such as the finite difference, finite volume and finite element method. The manuscript also makes a short excursion to the solution of large sets of (non)linear algebraic equations that result after application of discretization method to partial differential equations. The book treats the construction of such discretization methods, as well as some error analysis, where it is noted that the error analysis for the finite element method is merely descriptive, rather than rigorous from a mathematical point of view. The last chapters focus on time integration issues for classical time-dependent partial differential equations. After reading the book, the reader should be able to derive finite element methods, to implement the methods and to judge whether the obtained approximations are consistent with the solution to the partial differential equations. The reader will also obtain these skills for the other classical discretization methods. Acquiring such fundamental knowledge will allow the reader to continue studying more advanced methods like meshfree methods, discontinuous Galerkin methods and spectral methods for the approximation of solutions to partial differential equations.15132023-10-19T15:43:28Z2023-10-19T15:43:52ZQuantitative Methods for Plant Breeding<img alt="Read more about Quantitative Methods for Plant Breeding" title="Quantitative Methods for Plant Breeding cover image" class="cover " width="350" height="453" data-controller="common--cover" data-placeholder="/assets/common/placeholder-0e0607cbc50663ddb9e8fd188058bcd2630c730ef6ee322801278607b7d5af8e.png" src="/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6OTk4OCwicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--586cec0f0a57356619720ffc33b1855e5221b74b/quantitativemethods-cover-350x453.png" />This open textbook covers common statistics used in agriculture research, including experimental design in plant breeding and genetics, as well as the analysis of variance, regression, and correlation.15342023-11-01T04:46:24Z2023-11-20T15:14:02ZReading Social Science Methods<img alt="Read more about Reading Social Science Methods" title="Reading Social Science Methods cover image" class="cover " width="845" height="1096" data-controller="common--cover" data-placeholder="/assets/common/placeholder-0e0607cbc50663ddb9e8fd188058bcd2630c730ef6ee322801278607b7d5af8e.png" src="/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6MTAyNDMsInB1ciI6ImJsb2JfaWQifX0=--9788fb7312b07cf4b1563434e2522eed5d9645b9/Screenshot%202023-10-31%20at%2011.39.16%20PM.png" />Science has great potential to benefit society, but this potential comes with risks as well. Directed at introductory level social science and humanities majors, this textbook teaches the rules and limits of social science methods. Reisner starts from the assumption that it is not necessary to be able to do research to read and judge the soundness of research publications. The chapters guide students through an explicit set of rules for reading research articles developed from three common research methods: content analysis, survey research, and experimental method.15402023-12-04T20:18:51Z2024-01-04T22:52:49ZMethods for Stress Management<img alt="Read more about Methods for Stress Management" title="Methods for Stress Management cover image" class="cover " width="350" height="233" data-controller="common--cover" data-placeholder="/assets/common/placeholder-0e0607cbc50663ddb9e8fd188058bcd2630c730ef6ee322801278607b7d5af8e.png" src="/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6MTAzNDAsInB1ciI6ImJsb2JfaWQifX0=--113811edc66ba76c1cd5eac36b46e40e7e8c39d0/hurry-2119711_1920-350x233.jpg" />Stress is a feeling you get when faced with a challenge. In small doses, stress can be good for you because it makes you more alert and gives you a burst of energy. For instance, if you start to cross the street and see a car about to run you over, that jolt you feel helps you to jump out of the way before you get hit. But feeling stressed for a long time can take a toll on your mental and physical health. Even though it may seem hard to find ways to de-stress with all the things you have to do, it’s important to find those ways. Your health depends on it.15572024-01-14T03:06:38Z2024-01-14T03:06:56ZHandbook of Software Engineering Methods - 2nd Edition<img alt="Read more about Handbook of Software Engineering Methods - 2nd Edition" title="Handbook of Software Engineering Methods - 2nd Edition cover image" class="cover " width="350" height="453" data-controller="common--cover" data-placeholder="/assets/common/placeholder-0e0607cbc50663ddb9e8fd188058bcd2630c730ef6ee322801278607b7d5af8e.png" src="/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6MTA1OTksInB1ciI6ImJsb2JfaWQifX0=--7584c74e0cac948c72afb69ded6e29c251b16020/Software-Engineering-Methods-350x453.png" />Software engineering can help people create sustainable, extensible programs that solve problems people care about.I won’t tell you how to be a software engineer; you’ll learn that over time by doing it. Instead, this book is about software engineering methods: Ways people achieve specific objectives in software engineering—that can save your project. My hope is that, after reading this book (or parts of it), you’ll feel better equipped for software engineering.
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