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Lecturer(s)
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Langer Jiří, doc. Mgr. Ph.D.
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Valenta Milan, prof. PaedDr. Ph.D.
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Course content
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Pedagogical research as a method of human cognition. Types of education researches. Researches with qualitative and quantitative orientation. Measuring in pedagogical research, its types and properties. Descriptive statistical methods (characteristics of location, variability degree, methods of graphical data display, research analysis methods). Normal division and its properties. Statistical tests of significance for nominal, ordinal and metric data. Determining closeness of relations between variables (correlation and regression analysis in pedagogical research). Factor and cluster analysis and their possibilities in pedagogical research. Simple and two-factor analysis of variance. Classic and less common methods of data collection in pedagogical researches and their predictive value.
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Work with Text (with Book, Textbook), Methods of Written Work
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Learning outcomes
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Research in pedagogy, its kinds and types. Qualitative and quantitative types of research. Measurements in pedagogical research, its types and qualities. Methods of statistical descriptions of data. Statistical significance tests and their application in pedagogical research. Assessing the relations between variables. The principle of factor analysis. The principle of ANOVA. Data collection methods in pedagogical research. Planning research. The information basis of pedagogical research.
The students will be able to: - recognize and compare the assets of individual scientific concepts and models of research in education, - analyze and evaluate professional resources and the output of databases with the aim of theoretical and methodological anchoring of the topics of dissertations, - connect the theories with methodology and specific research methods in education, - suggest a design of theoretic, quantitative, qualitative or mixed research in education, - determine the limits of application of the quantitative and qualitative approach in educational research, - characterize the ethical principles in science and research.
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Prerequisites
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unspecified
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Assessment methods and criteria
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Oral exam
Preparation and defence of the methodological project of the dissertation thesis.
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Recommended literature
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ANDERSON, G.; ARSENAULT, N. (1998). Fundamentals of educational research. London.
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BECHHOFER, Frank, PATERSON, Lindsay. (2000). Principles of Research Design in the Social Sciences. . London: Routledge.
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BORG, W. R., GALL, M. D. (1998). Educational Research. An Introduction.. New York: Longman.
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BORWN, A., DOWLING, P. (1998). Doing Research/Reading Research. A mode of Interrogation for Education.. London: Falmer Press.
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BRIDGES, D., SMITH, R. (eds). (2007). Philosophy, Methodology and Educational Research. Oxford: Blackwell.
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deMARRAIS, K., LAPAN S. D. (eds.). (2004). Foundations for Research: Methods of Inquiry in Education and the Social Sciences.. Mahwah: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates .
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GIVEN, Lisa M. (ed.). (2008). The Sage encyclopedia of qualitative research methods.. London: SAGE.
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JOHNSON, Burke, CHRISTENSEN, Larry. (2012). Educational Research: Quantitative, Qualitative, and Mixed Approaches. London: SAGE.
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Kerlinger, F. K. (1972). Základy výzkumu chování.. Praha: Akademia.
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MARCZYK, Geoffrey, DEMATTEO, David, FESTINGER, David . (2005). Essentials of research design and methodology. Hoboken: Wiley.
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