RESEARCH IN EDUCATION
OBJECTIVE
This activity should help education students understand how teachers can advance knowledge of teaching and learning through their own research. The more teachers know
about research, the more they can use their classrooms for finding new and better ways to help students learn. Such classroom-based "action research" is a powerful way to try out new methods and to discover and then share ways to help students. Knowledge of good research practice can also make educators intelligent consumers of the vast amount of information and success claims they will see.
BACKGROUND and KEY CONCEPTS
There are many ways to conduct research, each with its own advantages and disadvantages. The primary forms of educational research aredescriptive, correlational, and experimental.The form a teacher chooses should be based on the sort of question she or he wishes to explore, and what is possible within the constraints of the setting. It is almost impossible, for example, to conceive of a classroom situation in which a true experimental design could be used. Developing a research orientation to classroom experiences can, though, make teachers far more effective in their work.
DIRECTED OBSERVATIONS/REFLECTIONS
(reading the "research" pages that follow will help you with this activity)
1. Identify a question you have about the effectiveness of a practice you observed in the YouTube video linked above,
and describe that practice and your question about it.
2. Describe methods you could use to investigate the effectiveness of those
practices. After you read the entire "Types of Research" information provided in this module,
you should concentrate on theAction Researchsection, which will help you with
how teachers can/should do research.
3. Discuss strengths and weaknesses of the method/s you have chosen.
Write your answers to these questions, and
reflect on why teachers will serve their students and their profession well by seeing themselves as researchers
. This assignment will be written in essay format (see example of the assignment).
Far more than with any other activity, there is a lot of reading in this section to help you with posing a research question. You will serve yourself well to read through the material, and to save this material for future reference. There will be classes in your future that require that you understand the basics of doing research.
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Here’s the required video link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKxAyy0MBiQ&feature=youtu.be
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I need you to log in to my Blackboard account to read more materials from this class work.
https://pgcconline.blackboard.com/webapps/portal/execute/tabs/tabAction?tab_tab_group_id=_18_1
username:atanawan6484
password: Kwagoko216
1. First step log in to my black board account
2. Click on my class 2020FA-TED-2061_HY03(Hybrid)
3. Click course content
4. Scroll down and click “Module 2: Research in Education”
5. After clicking that, click on “Required Readings/Materials” Read every single information included in that folder
6. After reading all the “Required Readings/Materials,” click on “Assignments” folder. There you will see the required video and the required activity. ( I attached it above)
PS: Focus on doing action research. Please read all the required readings to do better on this essay and follow my instructions.