Description : The aim of the course is to provide the students with the basic stages of elaboration of an empirical educational research, to familiarize themselves with the basic elements of the writing of such research and to elaborate and write a small educational research.
After completing the course successfully students will be able to:
- know basic elements of elaboration and writing of an empirical educational research (formulation of research questions, strategies and techniques of empirical research, data collection)
- work on a bibliographic research
- seek, analyze and handle empirical data from questionnaires, interviews, group observation and text content analysis
- elaborate and write a small empirical research
Outline : Unit 1: History, objectives, methods and types of educational research
Unit 2: Bibliographic research
Unit 3: Designing and presenting an educational research proposal
Unit 4: Formulating research problems, designating the theoretical framework and selecting the methodological approach
Unit 5: Production of primary data from a research sample
Unit 6: Various qualitative and quantitative techniques for data analysis
Unit 7: Presentation of educational research projects