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ASSIGNMENT
ASSIGNMENT
attributes, interactions, organizations, and institutions that shape educational outcomes. Scholarship in the field seeks to
describe, understand, and explain how learning takes place throughout a person’s life and how formal and informal
contexts of education affect all forms of learning. Education research embraces the full spectrum of rigorous methods
appropriate to the questions being asked and also drives the development of new tools and methods.
A cyclical process of steps that typically begins with identifying a research problem or issue of study. It then involves
reviewing the literature, specifying a purpose for the study, collecting and analyzing data, and forming an interpretation
of information. This process culminates in a report, disseminated to audiences, that is evaluated and used in the
educational community. (Creswell, 2002)
RESEARCH – Process of collecting/gathering data and information by a scientific or logical procedure that aims to solve a particular
scientific problem.
- From a French word”CERCHIER” meaning “to seek or to search.”•
- An attempt to solve or gain a solution to a problem.
- A systematic, controlled, empirical and critical investigation of hypothetical propositions about the presumed relations
among natural phenomenon. (Kerlinger, 1976)
- Is an honest, scientific investigation undertaken for the purpose of discovering new facts or establishing new relationships
among facts already known which will contribute to the present body of knowledge and can lead to an effective solution of
existing problems
What is the purpose of research???
- Corrects perceptions
- Develops and evaluates concepts, practices and theories
- Gathers information on a certain phenomenon that are lacking in knowledge
- Obtains knowledge for practical purposes.
- Provides hard facts that serves as a basis for planning, decision-making, project implementation, monitoring and evalution.
- Finding answers to questions or solutions to problems.
- Discovering and interpreting new facts.
- Testing theories to revise accepted theories or laws in the light of new facts.
- Formulating new theories.
Ethics in Research
1. A permit to conduct the study must be properly sought from authority.
2. Willingness of the prospective respondents must also be considered.
3. The researcher must assure the respondents of confidentiality of the data that will be gathered and used in the study.
4. The researcher must be willing to share the findings of the study with the institution where the respondents belong.
4. The researcher must maintain integrity in the publication of the findings and results of the study.
5. The researcher must not inflict harm to the respondents especially during an experimental research.
6. The researcher must consider the potential benefits that the respondents may get from the study.
7. The researcher must observe intellectual honesty in undertaking such research.
5 PARTS OF RESEARCH
1 THE PROBLEM AND ITS BACKGROUND
2 REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE
3 METHOD AND PROCEDURES
4 PRESENTATION, ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION OF DATA
5 SUMMARY, CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS
MARY JEAN B. EMPENG
MAED-EA