Please find my notes taken from:
Educational Research: Quantitative, Qualitative, and Mixed Approaches, 2010. R. B. Johnson & L. B.
Christensen. Los Angeles: Sage
Publication
These notes provide a brief overview of what Educational Research is and record its key terminology features. These
are more factsheets as such. My personal aim is to digest what I have finished reading
and encode it in my memory in a new way; moving from reading to writing. The notes
will also provide me with a quicker way to review the contents of the whole book
without entirely rereading it again.
My next stage will be to re-read those notes and formalise in writing the ideas that arose upon the first reading of the text. Reading this textbook has stimulated much thought into how I am going to formulate my research ideas and go about gathering data. More importantly though, an existential question presents itself to me as to which research paradigm I will choose and what it is I actually want to demonstrate through my research.
My next stage will be to re-read those notes and formalise in writing the ideas that arose upon the first reading of the text. Reading this textbook has stimulated much thought into how I am going to formulate my research ideas and go about gathering data. More importantly though, an existential question presents itself to me as to which research paradigm I will choose and what it is I actually want to demonstrate through my research.
I shall provide my insights relating to my research project drawn from the various chapters of the book on "The Arrow" homepage http://simon-herd.blogspot.hk
In an interesting article that I read regarding students in
South Korean universities, note-taking is identified as one of the strategies
for student success at university. Here is the reference:
Lee, H.J., & Lee, J. (2012). Who gets the best grades at top universities? An exploratory analysis of institution-wide interviews with the highest achievers at a top Korean University. Asia Pacific Educ. Rev. 13, 665–676.
Please find below the contents list .
Contents:
- Introduction to Educational Research
- Quantitative, Qualitative, and Mixed Research
- Developing Research Questions and Proposal Preperation
- Research Ethics
- Standardized Measurement and Assessment
- Methods of Data Collection
- Sampling
- Validity of Research Results
- Experimental Research
- Quasi-Experimental and Single-Case Designs
- Nonexperimental Quantitative Research
- Qualitative Research
- Historical Research
- Mixed Model and Mixed Method Research
- Descriptive Statistics
- Inferential Statistics
- Data Analysis in Qualitative Research
