INSTITUT PENDIDIKAN GURU KAMPUS IPOH

COURSEWORK ASSIGNMENT

ACADEMIC YEAR : 2020

Programme : PISMP Student Name :

Code : TSLB3143 Semester / Year : Semester 2 / Year 3

Name of Course : Fundamentals of Intake : June 2018
Research in Education Group: T5, T6, T7, T8

Task Date Set Date Due

1. RESEARCH PROPOSAL 5.10.2020 10.11.2020

2. ORAL PRESENTATION 23.11.2020 27.11.2020

Course Learning Outcomes

1. Explain the fundamentals of research in education. (C2, A3, PLO1)

2. Analyse issues in education that can be investigated through research. (C4, A5,
PLO3, PLO6, CTPS3, LL2)
3. Present a critical and professional justification for the proposal(C5, A2, PLO3, PLO4,
CTPS3, CS3)
4. Produce a research proposal in education that takes into account research ethics
based on various relevant sources (C6, A5, PLO6, LL2)

This coursework is for assessing learning outcomes 3 and 4

Coursework Objectives

Students will be able to:

1. Write a research proposal in education using appropriate report writing format

2. Present a critical and professional justification for the proposal
Stimulus :

"The Educational Vision draws from and translates the concerns

articulated in Vision 2020 in the educational context. The governing ideas
of the National Educational Vision are; knowledge culture, culture of
excellence, caring culture, empowerment, national unity, collaboration,
monitoring, management style and zero defect"

In order for the formal education to be implemented successfully, the education

system should have approaches, methods, techniques, resources and management,
which are developed in accordance with the National Education Philosophy (NEP),
besides upgrading other educational infrastructures. Classroom practitioners, teacher
trainers and educational managers should keep abreast with the development in the
pedagogical aspects of teaching. This could be achieved if teachers and trainers are
practising research work in their teaching, reflecting consistently and seizing initiatives
to improve the effectiveness of teaching.

Students are required to perform the following tasks:

TASK 1 : RESEARCH PROPOSAL (60 marks)

Based on the excerpt above, explore an aspect of your teaching and learning practice that
can be researched in the context of the ESL primary classroom. The aspect identified will
form the basis for the research proposal.

a. Reflect an aspect of your teaching and learning practice that can be researched.
b. Collect literature review that will support your problem statement, research questions,
research objectives and research methodology.
c. Based on the issue identified choose a research design that can be implemented.
d. Write an educational research proposal. The length of your research proposal
should be about 2500 words excluding references.

TASK 2 : ORAL PRESENTATION (10 marks)

You are to take part in a 30 minute oral presentation on the research proposal you have
prepared. Present your research proposal.

1. Present your research proposal. The presentation should cover the following
aspects :
 Introduction
 Literature Review
 Research Methodology
2. You are given 20 minutes to present critically your research proposal.
3. Each presentation is followed by a 10 minute question and answer session where
you are expected to justify your work and demonstrate good understanding of your
proposal.
4. You may use any form of visual aid e.g. Powerpoint slides, posters, pictures,
photographs, etc.
REQUIREMENT FOR COURSEWORK

1. This coursework requires you to work individually and as a group.

2. You are advised to discuss your work regularly with your lecturer to ensure targets
are met.
3. No duplication of assignments from other coursework is allowed.
4. Plagiarism in any form is strongly prohibited. All borrowed ideas must be
acknowledged and properly cited. Disciplinary action will be taken against students
who violate the rules of plagiarism in accordance with Act 174 Institutions of
Education Disciplinary Amendment 2012 - part V (Disciplinary Procedures) (3.8.5).
5. Cite the source of the text and any references you used using the APA format.
6. Your work should be type written with 1.5 spacing and font Arial size 11.
7. Download the cover page for coursework from ITEMS IPGM Ipoh.
8. You should adhere to the deadline. Without an approved extension of time, late
submission will be dealt with severely.
9. The coursework carries a total of 100 marks and weighting of 70%
10. The coursework will be assessed based on the marking criteria attached.

Prepared by, Checked by:

__________________________ ____________________________
(MUHAMAD YUSNI MOHD JUNOS) (UMAIMAH MOHD IDRIS)
Course Coordinator TSLB3143 Subject Matter Expert
Language Department Language Department

Verified by:

____________________
(Dr. NG SOOK GUN)
Head of Department
Language Department,
 TSLB3143 : FUNDAMENTALS OF RESEARCH IN EDUCATION
ASSESSMENT RUBRICS

TASK 1 : RESEARCH PROPOSAL

Rubrics used is based on Garis Panduan Pelaksanaan Penyelidikan IPGM

1. Panduan Pelaksanaan Penyelidikan Eskperimen dan Kuasi Eksperimen (ms 22-33)

2. Panduan Pelaksanaan Penyelidikan Kajian Kes (ms 21-29)
3. Panduan Pelaksanaan Penyelidikan Tindakan (ms 20-31)
4. Panduan Pelaksanaan Penyelidikan Etnografi (ms 19-26)
5. Panduan Pelaksanaan Penyelidikan Tinjauan (ms 24-32)

TASK 2 : ORAL PRESENTATION

Rubrics used is based on Garis Panduan Pelaksanaan Penyelidikan IPGM

Gred Skala Deskriptor

10
markah
Amat 9.0 – Penyampaian
Cemerlang 10.0 Membentangkan kertas cadangan dengan amat jelas dan yakin
Penggunaan bahasa, nada suara dan media sangat berkesan
Pengolahan Isi Kandungan
Justifikasi cadangan kajian sangat kritis dan profesional
Soal Jawab
Menjawab soalan dengan amat jelas dan tepat
Cemerlang 7.5 8.9 Penyampaian
Membentangkan kertas cadangan dengan jelas dan yakin
Penggunaan bahasa, nada suara dan media berkesan
Pengolahan Isi Kandungan
Justifikasi cadangan kajian kritis dan profesional
Soal Jawab
Menjawab soalan dengan jelas dan tepat
Kepujian 6.0 – 7.4 Penyampaian
Membentangkan kertas cadangan dengan agak jelas Penggunaan
bahasa, nada suara dan media agak berkesan
Pengolahan Isi Kandungan
Justifikasi cadangan kajian kritis
Soal Jawab
Menjawab soalan dengan agak jelas
Lulus 5.0 – 5.9 Penyampaian
Membentangkan kertas cadangan kurang jelas
Penggunaan bahasa, nada suara dan media kurang berkesan
Pengolahan Isi Kandungan
Justifikasi cadangan kajian kurang kritis
Soal Jawab
Menjawab soalan dengan kurang jelas
Gagal 0 – 4.9 Penyampaian
Membentangkan kertas cadangan tidak jelas
Penggunaan bahasa, nada suara dan media tidak berkesan
Pengolahan Isi Kandungan
Justifikasi cadangan kajian tidak kritis
Soal Jawab
Tidak menjawab soalan
Specific Guideline in Constructing a Proposal
The purpose of this assignment is to provide you experience with designing a search study,
and writing a research proposal. The benefits are both academic and professional—as this
is a common genre in academia. In general, a research proposal explains why and how a
study will be conducted. It is useful for planning a study (and for getting critical feedback
before undertaking the study) as well as a resource to mine while conducting a study. The
process is recursive. As you design your study, you will be guided in part by your review of
the literature, and will no doubt continue to review relevant scholarship in your research area
and your proposed methods.

Designing the Study

Having conducted a review of the literature and having worked with your research
question(s) for several weeks now, you may have an idea of how you want to study that
question(s). If so, jot down a brief plan. If not, try the following heuristics to generate
information to design your study.

Study your question

 What object (people, places or things) does it suggest you need to study?
 What kind of study does the question suggest (empirical--e.g., ethnography, case
study, descriptive study, experimental; historical--oral or archival or both; theoretical;
discourse or textual analysis, etc.)?
 What data do you need to collect? (artifacts, texts, people doing something,
interviews, etc.)
 How will you analyze the data? (qualitative? quantitative? hermeneutics? discourse
analysis? historical? etc.)
Be very specific in both the data you will examine and the ways in which you will analyze it.
Look for scholarship that is similar to the kind you wish to design to see what other
researchers have identified as data and how they studied these.

Conventional Elements of a Research Proposal

1. Problem or objective
Research proposals generally begin with an introductory section that describes the research
problem and establishes its significance. This section answers the following kinds of
questions: What exactly do you want to study? Why is it worth studying? Does the proposed
study have theoretical and/or practical significance? Does it contribute to a new
understanding of a phenomenon (e.g., does it address new or little-known material or does it
treat familiar material in a new way or does it challenge an existing understanding or extend
existing knowledge)?

2. Review of Literature
The research problem or objective needs to be situated within a context of other scholarship
in the area(s). The literature review presents a discussion of the most important research
and theoretical work relating to the research problem/objective. (Note: for a thesis
committee, the review serves an additional function, namely, as a demonstration of your
knowledge and understanding of relevant research and thus a demonstration of your ability
to undertake a given research project.) It addresses the following kinds of questions:
 What have others said about this area(s)?
 What theories address it and what do these say?
 What research has been done (or not done) previously?
 Are there consistent findings or do past studies disagree?
 Are there flaws or gaps in the previous research that your study will seek to remedy?

3. Research Question
Your specific research question(s) or hypotheses should be stated clearly either at the end
of the description of the problem/objective or at the end of the review of the literature. (You
have already written a draft of the review of literature that included the research problem and
question(s). But you will probably find that you are continuing to craft your research
questions, and may need to revise your review, cutting out tangential or irrelevant research
and adding other research that you have come across since you wrote the review. You may
also find that you need to add methodological sources to support your research design.)

4. Procedures : Methods Section

This section describes how you will conduct your study. Regardless of the type of research
you plan to do, you need to indicate how you will carry out your study so others may judge
its viability, its worth, etc. For example, for empirical research, this section includes a
description of the subjects (or participants), the measurements, the data-collection methods,
and analysis/analyses.

5. Subjects for study

Describe the subjects (people or objects, e.g. texts) for your study, considering carefully the
type and number you need. Explain your method of selecting your subject(s) (and if a
sample, describe the population and how the sample will be drawn). Discuss the subject(s)
in relation to your research question or hypothesis, to availability, and to your research
design. That is, you need to identify the subjects and make clear whether they will be
available and how you will reach them. This section typically answers the following
questions:
 Who or what will you study in order to collect data?
 Is it appropriate to select a sample from a larger pool? If so, how will you do that?
How do these subjects relate to your research question(s)?

6. Measurement
Describe the kinds of measures you intend to use and explain why you have selected these
(have they been used previously? if not, have you piloted them?). A discussion of
measurements generally considers the following questions:
 What are the key variables in your study?
 How will you define and measure them?
 Do your definitions and measurements draw on or differ from those of previous
research in this area?
(If you are using a writing prompt, or a survey questions, or other such written material, it is
usually appropriate to include a copy of this in an appendix at the end.) You want to consider
whether you will use concurrent, retrospective, direct or indirect product measurements or
some combination of these. Your research question should guide you in your selection.

7. Data-Collection Methods
Describe what you plan to actually do and the kind of research you will conduct. Your data-
collection methods obviously need to be consistent with your research problem, your
subjects and your measurements. This section typically considers the following questions:
 How will you actually collect the data for your study?
 What kind of study will you conduct (e.g., ethnographic, case study, experiment,
survey, historical, textual analysis, etc.)?

8. Analysis
Describe the kind of analysis you plan to conduct, and explain the logic and purpose of your
analysis. The kind(s) of analysis you plan will, of course, be contingent on the subjects,
themeasures and the data collection as well as on your research question. These all work in
tandem with one another. Whether you’re conducting a quantitative or qualitative, a study of
some combination or a study of some other kind, you need to explain how you will analyze
the data you collect. This section typically answers the following kinds of questions:
 How precise a description or explanation of the phenomenon do you plan to provide?
Do you intend to simply describe the what and how of a given phenomenon?
 Do you intend to examine relationships among variables?
 Do you intend to explain why things are the way they are?
 What possible explanatory variables will your analysis consider and how will you
know if you’ve explained the variables adequately?
 If you plan to use specific statistical procedures (whether descriptive, inferential, or
some combination), state these.
9. Schedule
Most proposals require a schedule that outlines the various stages of the project along a
time line. Typically, this is written as a chronological list of procedures you will follow in
carrying out your study (data collection, analysis, writing and revising). Work backwards from
the date you want to complete the project and be realistic about the amount of time that
different tasks will take. Even when this is not required, it is a good idea to generate a
timeline because this task forces you to think through the entire research process
realistically and may alert you to problems that you might
otherwise overlook. A timeline also helps you later on to stay on task during the research
project.

10. Bibliography
Include a bibliography or works cited of all sources cited in the research proposal. Double
check your bibliography against the proposal to make sure that all sources appear in both
places. As you draft your proposal, keep in mind that, as the name suggests, you are
describing your tentative plans for research. You want the proposal to be specific enough for
someone to understand what it is you plan to do so they can assess your plan, and you want
it concrete enough to help you as you engage in your research. Further, your proposal
should help you (and your readers) identify any problem areas before you invest time,
energy and money in a study so that you can correct these. But your proposal is also subject
to change once you actually begin the study. The point is: be realistic and be flexible.