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Understanding Educational Enquiry
1. 2009
ESH 714
UNDERSTANDING
EDUCATIONAL ENQUIRY
University of Tasmania
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2. ESH 714
Serena Tan Quee Lan
2009
Understanding
Educational Enquiry
My portfolio of work
Submit To: Professor Rosemary Callingham
From: qltan
Email: qltan@utas.edu.au
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3. MIND MAP
• Types of • Questionnaire
Approaches s
• Moderator • Interviews
Variable • Observation
Paradigms Practicalities
What How
EDUCATIONAL
RESEARCH
When Why
Quality in Ethical
• Research Research Issues • Ethical
question Dilemmas
• Politics & • Research &
educational Children
Research
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4. What
VARIBLES
Independe
Dependent
Va r i a b l e s nt
Variables
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5. What
TYPES OF APPROACHES
Research Research
Paradigms
Approaches Types
Conflict
Paradigm
Ethno
methodology
Non- Structural
experimental Functionalism
Feminist
1. Macro- Paradigms
Micro-theory
Rational
2. Qualitative Objectivity
& Quantitative Reconsidered
True
Experiment
Positivism
Quasi-
experimental
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6. What
RESEARCH METHODOLOGIES
Historical
Action Ethnograph
Research ic
Methodologi
es
Observatio
n Survey
Experimenta
Interviews l
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7. How
PRACTICALITIES
Polls and
Survey
Questionnaires
Interviews
Data Collection
Participant
Observer
Observations
Non-
participant
Observer
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8. How
CONDUCTING AN EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH
1. Review
Literature
Clarify
concepts and 2.
8. variables Methodology
Recommen Experimental
dation and , Quasi-
Application experiment or
Narrative
3.
7. Data Define Measurements
Analysis Research Techniques
Statistical and Question and Data
Interpretative Collection
Methods
4. Sampling
6. Recording
Random or
Systematic
Selective
processing of
Sample size
data collected
5. Data Population
Collections
Observations,
Interviews,
Surveys,
Questionnaires
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10. IDEA DRIVE APPROACH TO RESEARCH
Whe
n
Research
Questions
Ethical
Issues
Research
Methodologies
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11. IDEA DRIVEN RESEARCH APPROACH Whe
n
Well defined Research Questions
Ethical
Methodolog
Issue
y
Literature
Review
Quality Outcomes
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12. METHODOLOGY DRIVEN RESEARCH APPROACH Whe
n
Literature
Review
Ethical
Issues
Research
Question
Quality Outcome
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13. IDEOLOGY, POLITICS AND PRAGMATISM Why
Politic
s
Confidentiali
Research No Harm
ty And Trust with Rigorous
Children
method
Ethics in
Research
Respect
Informed
& Consent
Rights
Quality
Ethical Outcome
Code of
Conduct
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14. SAFEGUARDING HIGH ETHICAL
STANDARD IN RESEARCH Why
• National Statement on
Ethical Ethical Conduct in
Human Research
Guidelines
• Code of Professional
Ethics and Practices
• Researcher honesty
• Academician
Morale
Obligation watchdog
• Institutional Review
Board
• Informed consent
Individual • Confidentiality
Rights to • Privacy
• No harm
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15. REFERENCES
• Buckingham, J. (2003). Class Size and Teacher Quality. Educational Research for Policy and Practice 2: 71-86,
2003. Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
• Burns, R.B. (2000). (4th Ed.). Introduction to Research Methods. Australia: Pearson Education Australia.
Charles, C. M. (1998). (3rd Ed.). Introduction to Educational Resesarch. N.Y.: Addison Wesley Longman.
• Hemmings, A. (2006). Great Ethical Divides: Bridging the Gap Between Instituational Review Boards and
Researchers. Educational Researcher (2006, May), 12-18.
• Elliott, J. (1990). Educational Research in Crisis: Performance indicators and the decline in excellence. British
Educational Research Journal. Vol. 16(1), 1990.
• Lawson, A.E. (2005). Editorial: Conducting high quality research. International Journal of Science and
Mathematics Education. 3(1), 1-5.
• Edmonds, C.N. (2003). Ethical Considerations When Conducting Research on Children in the Worst Forms of
Child Labour in Nepal. International Labour Organization (ILO), International Programme on the Elimination of
Child Labour (IPEC), Geneva.
• Ng, P.T. (2003). The Singapore School and the School Excellence Model. Educational Research for Policy and
Practice 2: 27–39, 2003.
• Elliott, J. (1990). Educational Research in Crisis: Performance indicators and the decline in excellence. British
Educational Research Journal. Vol. 16(1), 1990.
• Gage, N. L. (1989). The Paradigm Wars and Their Aftermath, A “historical” sketch of research on teaching since
1989. Educational Researcher (1989), p. 4-10.
• Husen, T. (1988). Research Paradigms in Education. Interchange. 19(1): 2-13.
• Keeves, J. P. (1997) (Ed.). (2nd Ed.). Educational Research, Methodology: An international Handbook. Australia:
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Read Babbie, Chapter 3, pp. 81-89Education research is political in nature - we cannot avoid that aspect. To what extent is this an issue? Read the sections in Babbie, especially about Social Research and Race. To what extent do you think the points made by Babbie are applicable in Australia today? Do we, intentionally or not, bias our research in favour of a particular viewpoint? How does the media influence our perspectives? Ideology, politics and pragmatismEducation deals with literacy, training for skills, shaping of mind and thinking. It is easy for teachers, particularly primary school teachers (of young children) to believe that educational research is free from tempering of politics….. we are in ivory tower of sorts. Often teachers willingly engage in action research, reaping satisfaction from working collaboratively with colleagues to come up with innovative teaching instruction from their classes and documenting them for the benefits of the school and educational institutions, only to find that their works are not supported because of lack of funding, or due to political policies that are beyond them. This is very disheartening for them, but it is a true fact of life. Some real life examples are the issue of Bilingualism that happened both in America and here in Australia, involving the Black American (Crawford, 2002) and Australian Aborigines (Nicholls, 2005). I appreciate the work of researchers like Crawford, Nicholls and Dr Macpherson (1998) who worked for a period here in University of Tasmania. Employing the method of historical research, they revisited the records and artefacts that documented the turns of events that showed how politics had an agenda on education. Although we should not judge history from our present perspective because we have the advantage of ‘hindsight’, the works of these researchers are as lights to the path. Indeed a good researcher must not only guard against personal subjectivity and biasness, they must also ensure high ethical standard and quality of research, and at the same time be courageous to stand up for one’s perception of the truth. Babbie is rather straight forward in stating some political agenda of politicians who center on the substance and use of research…. To shape people’s thinking, willingness to follow orders from higher authority and to make people more obedient. There are also politicians who use educational issues or research as weapon to bring down one’s political opponent. How far should a researcher be partial in one’s political stand and beliefs? These are decision academicians and researchers have to make. While one can never be totally objective, Babbie in quoting Max Weber, that researchers must at least be ‘unencumbered by personal values if it was to make a special contribution to society’. This is true that high quality research should be objective. Perhaps a good guarding principle for researchers would be to expose fallacy and bring up the truth, wither this truth is subject to one’s ideology. Reference: Crawford, J. (2002). Agenda for Inaction: A Critique of the National Research Council Report Improving Schooling for Language-Minority Children.International Journal of the Sociology of Language, 155/156 (2002): 93-99 http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/Jwcrawford/agenda.htm Macpherson, R. J. S. (1997). Learning Accountability in Tasmania: The Move from Command to Neo-Pluralist Politics. International Electronic Journal for Leadership in Learning. Vole (1997) Macpherson 1(5). http://www.ucalgary.ca/iejll/macpherson Macpherson, R. J. S.(1998) The politics of accountability : educative and international perspectives. Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Corwin Press Nicholls, C. (2005). Death by a Thousand Cuts: Indigenous Language Bilingual Education Programmes in the Northern Territory of Australia, 1972-1998. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, Volume 8(2 & 3) March 2005, pp.160 - 177