TRCN PQE Syllabus: Educational Research Methods – PQE 019
| PQE 019. Educational Research Methods | ||||
| THEMES | GUIDES | |||
| Category D: | Category C: | Category B: | Category A: | |
| NCE Teachers | Graduate Teachers | Master Teachers | Doctoral Teachers | |
| Identification of educational problems, research design, data gathering, processing, analyzing, interpreting, inferences and reporting. |
Nature and meaning of research; types of research; typologies based pure research and action or applied research; typology based on form such as historical research, descriptive survey, experimental research; typology based on kind of evidence and analysis used such as qualitative research, quantitative research, eclectic or triangular research or multiple perspectives research; the research process; choice of research topic; review of related literature; research methodology; methods of data collection – quantitative and qualitative techniques, validity and reliability; methods of organizing and analyzing data – qualitative and quantitative techniques; references and citations. |
The concepts and typologies of Educational Research (pure and action/applied; historical/descriptive/experimental; quantitative/qualitative/eclectic, etc). Planning the research. Research topic, statement of problem, objectives, etc. Literature review. Research design. Research methodology. Data collection techniques. Observation. Self- reports. Experimentation, etc. Report writing: complete outline of a research report, etc. Format for a Research Project. Questionnaires and other instruments for data collection. Formulation and testing of hypotheses, preparation of research reports. |
Basic principles and Techniques of research. Researches in education. Features and types of educational research (Pure research, pedagogical research, planning research etc.); Variables (dependent, independent moderator and extraneous variables); Hypothesis (research, alternative and null hypothesis); null hypothesis; stating and formulating research questions, population, sample and sampling techniques; Tools of research (questionnaire, opinionative, interview, psychometric, achievement tests, psychological tests, observation); Basic research methods (historical research method, developmental research method, quasi-experimental research method, casual-comparative research method, action research and survey study); Writing a research report (features of a research report, chapter layout emphasis, writing preliminaries and making attachments. |
Definition of a problem and formulation of hypotheses. Research types in education, e.g. historical, survey, experimental, etc. Proposal writing for theses and grants. Data gathering tools in education. Data analysis techniques in educational research. Research reporting. |
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