Research Methods Week 7 – 10 June 2014
Project presentation week. This week we had to present our project ideas to our cohort for peer feedback. The week previous we submitted an outline to our tutors and I received some very good feedback that helped form my presentation. I also contributed to others suggesting improvements that may help. After my presentation I received […]
Research Methods Week 6 – 3 June 2014
This week we looked at validity and reliability as well as ethic approvals. Validity It was stated that validity is quality control for your research. Validity encompasses the entire experimental concept and establishes whether the results obtained meet all of the rigors of the scientific research method. For example, there must have been randomization of the sample […]
Research Methods Week 5 – 27 May 2014
This session was very informative as we looked at data collection and the merits of the various tools available to us. We looked at: questionnaires surveys interview On questionnaires we looked at different examples from Clive Opie’s (2004) book on doing Educational Research looking at how questions were constructed with examples of good and bad. […]
Research Methods Week 4 – 20 May 2014
In this session we learnt about categories of research and methodologies. I almost fell off my chair when Claire McA said your methodologies are not questionnaires/surveys/interviews etc., but actually the methods that you used. There are different categories of research, they include: Primary Secondary Qualitative Quantitative Mixed Qual & Quan From the ensuing discussion in […]
Grix 2002
Grix J. (2002), Introducing Students to the Generic Terminology of Social Research, Politics 22-3 P. 175-186, Blackwell Publishers Ltd. This article gave a very good overview and definition of Ontology – Epistemology – Methodology – Methods and Sources for research. It also presents a graph from Hay, 2002 p 64., that sums it up very well, which is reproduced […]
Research Methods Week 3 – 12 May 2014
This week we had a guest lecturer John Dalat for Dundalk IT who talked to us about literature reviews. Literature review is a mechanical process of reading for meaning. John introduced me to the PAR model of teaching that he uses – Present Apply Review: Present – New information and or concepts are presented to […]
Rethinking my Research Question
Over the course of this module, first two weeks anyway, I have realised that what I am trying to do is probably too much. When looking at what I want to cover I have decided the important part is the management of learning so will focus on that part. Very roughly what I think I […]
Hourglass Model of Research
This model allows you to start from a broad area and norrow down to a focussed question: Source:Research Methods Knowledge base After you collect the answers they need analysed and then conclusion drawn from them. See weekly reflection form second class of Research Module for more details.
DIT Model of Research
We were introduced to this model in the second week of the Research Models: This will help me define my Research Question, see reflection of the class for more information. Another slight variation adds a Hypothesis: The Hypothesis is a statement of what you are likely find out from the research.
Research Methods Week 2 -6 May 2014
Today we had a session about Effective Research Questions and how we should construct one. Later there was a session on how to find literature on what we are looking for. On the research question we were introduced to several Models of Research: DIT Model Hourglass Model We also have to refine our question from […]
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