EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH

SME 328

Objective After completing the course, the student will be able to: Understanding the philosophy, management and paradigms of education research; Acquaint students with the potentials and limitations of research; Understanding of the ethical, financial and other problems of research; Apply knowledge and skills to the organization and management of their own research; Provide students with an understanding of the contribution that research methods have made to education; Apply formal planning techniques to scheduling of research; Have skills based training in the use of computers and practical understanding of the measurement, survey sampling, experimental design, data collection; and Analyze simple numeric and textual data set of research and statistics. Unit 1 1.1 1.2 1.3 Unit 2 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 Unit 3 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 Unit 4 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 The Role of research in Education Education as a science Scientific methods in education and current state of educational research Important contribution of the educational research. Research Procedures Planning and identifying the problem Formulation of hypothesis Reviewing and keeping record of the literature Developing and validation of research tools. Developing and validation of research tools. types of Research Applied. Cross-sectional Vs Qualitative Research Quantitative Vs Qualitative Research Action Vs experimental Descriptive Historical Research and library resources Designing, Planning and Management of Research Making problems researchable Reviewing and reshaping the problems Language and reshaping the problem Language and structuring the research problems.

Unit 5 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 Unit 6 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 Unit 7 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 7.5

Tools Research Questionnaire Interview Inventories Attitude Scale Statistical Analysis Measure central tendency Standard deviation and standard scores. Normal Curve. Co-efficient correlation for test reliability and validity. Data Analysis and Report Writing Analysis of the data and documentary evidence Use of appropriate statistical methods Finding. Conclusion and recommendations Writing of report (organization, Bibliography, Reference, Computer application and data-analysis.

Suggested Reading Burgess, R (1993) Studies in Quantitative Methodologies, Vol 1. Lonson: Jan Press. Cohen, L, Manion, L.C (1989) Research Methods in Education (Third Edition), London: Rout Ledge. Gillort, S (1991) Empirical Foundations of Educational Research. New Jercy: Prentice Hall, Inc, Cliff. Khan Wazim (1998) Techniques of Research, Peshawar: Ijaz Printers. Marvin C. Alkin (1992) Encyclopedia of Educational Research (Sixth Edition). New York: Macmillan Publishing Company. Micheal, Young (1992) Innovation and Research in Education, London: Kegan Paul.