By Michael Crowe and Lorraine Sheppard, Published on 10/01/10
A research paradigm, or set of common beliefs about research, should be a key facet of any research project. However, despite its importance, there is a paucity of general understanding in the medical sciences education community regarding what a research paradigm consists of and how to best construct one. With the move within medical sciences education towards greater methodological rigor, it is now more important than ever for all educators to understand simply how to better approach their research via paradigms. In this monograph, a simplified approach to selecting an appropriate research paradigm is outlined. Suggestions are based on broad literature, medical education sources, and the author’s own experiences in solidifying and communicating their research paradigms. By assisting in detailing the philosophical underpinnings of individuals research approaches, this guide aims to help all researchers improve the rigor of their projects and improve upon overall understanding in research communication.
Research on Finnish instructional strategies in a United States classroom.
November 5, 2014 "12 Helpful Tools for Research and Citations" is an excellent list created by Kira DeVaul and shared on Graphite. This list comprises a number of useful web tools that can help students during their research. As a process, research is made up of different interconnected stages: The first phase is the search for information, reading sources and taking notes, doing the write up and creating a bibliography for references. Kira's list provides web tools that students can draw on when working on each stage of the research process. Some tools such as PebbleGo are even kid-friendly and can be used by young learners to search databases on the web. I invite you to have a look at this collection of research and citation tools and share with us what you think of it. Follow us on : Twitter, Facebook , Google plus, Pinterest . This post originally appeared in Educational Technology and Mobile Learning ( www.educatorstechnology.com ).
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This infographic clears all your doubts regarding the differences between Qualitative and Quantitative research. Identify the correct methodology required to research by understanding the difference between the two approaches most commonly used in the study.
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A cheat sheet of education theorists and their research based teaching practices.
Theoretical frameworks are crucial in research, guiding studies, framing questions, and providing insights, shaping the research landscape, and the study's direction.
The present research project is devoted to introduce what error analysis is and what sort of relationship it has with language teaching and what contribution it provides for English language teaching and learning. The investigator being a teacher educator in Methods of teaching English found it worthwhile to undertake a research study to identify the errors of B.Ed., trainees while writing in English and suggested a remedial program to overcome errors and improve their writing skills in English. This study is concerned with error analysis and its contribution to English language teaching at both linguistic and methodological levels.
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Niche-specific content is usually not readily available through regular generic search engines. One example is the academic and scholarly content. While running a search query about an academic topic through a generic search engine such as Google would probably render fairly decent results, it, however, usually takes digging into so much fluff before finally landing on relevant results. This is where having access to topic-specific search engines comes in handy. Such search engines do not only provide specific content tailored to the topic under study but their content is more likely to be reliable and authoritative. To this end, we have compiled this list of excellent academic search engines that teachers, student researchers and academics can use to quickly locate and access scholarly works and publications. We have only included what we believe are the most relevant and popular titles out there. If you have other suggestions to add to the list please share with us on our Facebook page. Enjoy
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There are a number of approaches used in this research method design. The purpose of this chapter is to design the methodology of the research approach through mixed types of research techniques. The research approach also supports the researcher on how to come across the research result findings. In this chapter, the general design of the research and the methods used for data collection are explained in detail. It includes three main parts. The first part gives a highlight about the dissertation design. The second part discusses about qualitative and quantitative data collection methods. The last part illustrates the general research framework. The purpose of this section is to indicate how the research was conducted throughout the study periods.
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Share on FacebookShare on TwitterShare on Linkedin Education trends may come and go, but the conclusions of John Hattie’s Visible Learning research have remained largely unchanged over the years. The research is clear about what works and what doesn’t when it comes to raising student […]
