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Approaches to educational research Research topics Research problems Research purpose

Approaches to educational research Research topics Research problems Research purpose Research questions. Purpose Research Question and Hypothesis. Creswell, 2009. However , Mertler and Charles have a slightly different spin on this. Research Topic

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Approaches to educational research Research topics Research problems Research purpose

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  1. Approaches to educational research • Research topics • Research problems • Research purpose • Research questions

  2. Purpose Research Question and Hypothesis Creswell, 2009

  3. However, Mertler and Charles have a slightly different spin on this

  4. Research Topic • The broad subject addressed by the study • Research Problem • The issue, concern, controversy, problem to be addressed • Research Purpose • The intent of the study – what the study intends to accomplish • Research Questions • The specific questions the study will attempt to answer • Research Hypotheses • The specific statement to be evaluated statistically – often not part of the introduction since inferential statistics will not be employed.

  5. Statement of the Problem • An element of the introductory chapter or section of the thesis • Provides a description of the topic of the research and a statement of the research problem to be addressed. • This should not only describe where the research is heading, but also establish the significance of the research – how it will make the world better

  6. Purpose Statement • An extension of the statement of the problem to set the direction of the study – to say • why you are doing this study • what you intend to do • what you intend to accomplish

  7. Research Questions • The specific questions you are intending to answer • Variables • Descriptive • Comparative • Relational • The participants • The location

  8. Research Hypothesis • The specific statement(s) you are going to evaluate: H0 : Reading scoregroup1= Reading scoregroup2 H0 : Correlation Reading:Math = 0

  9. Research topic – an example Student achievement of valued learning outcomes is an important index of educational performance. For individual students the achievement of learning outcomes has significant long-term consequence for life success. A clear example comes from the results of the International Assessment of Adult Literacy (IALS) (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, and the Ministry of Industry, Canada, 2000) that show consistently strong positive relationships between levels of literacy to employment status and to earnings.

  10. Support for significance Proportion of adult Canadians in top 60% of earners in Canada

  11. Research problem Our understanding of empirical relationships between student, home and school correlates of learning outcomes is not well developed. There is a dearth of meaning and understanding that can be attributed to the scores and statistics in relation to educational policy and practice. To attain this we need better understandings of the relationships between achievement measures and student, home and school characteristics, identifying those characteristics that are consistently and strongly related to student achievement and are accessible to policy.

  12. Research purpose In this internationally comparative study an HLM approach was used to investigate the relationship of student SES to mathematics achievement from an international perspective using data from the PISA 2003 program that assessed mathematics achievement in 41 countries (OECD, 2003a). In addition the effects of selected school characteristics were explored using the multilevel modeling analyses to evaluate the extent to which they modulate what could be termed the inequity of SES effects on student achievement.

  13. Research questions • What is the relationship of socio-economic status to mathematics literacy achievement across the 41 countries participating in PISA 2003 ? • Do the selected school traits* influence: • Mathematics literacy achievement ? • The SES / Mathematics relationship ? • school size • ratio of teachers to students • quality of educational resources • student morale • number of assessments per year in the school • ability grouping of students

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