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Lecturer(s)
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Šmelová Eva, prof. PhDr. Ph.D.
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Chráska Miroslav, doc. PhDr. Ph.D.
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Čech Tomáš, doc. PhDr. Ph.D.
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Course content
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1) The concept of science, research from the point of view of positivism and neopositivism (Comte, Durkheim, Carnap), theory of falsification (Popper), paradigms in science (Kuhn), sociological turnover in the philosophy of science. 2) Formulation of a research problem, formulation of a research question, evaluation of the state of knowledge in an area ? survey study, professional sources (professional journals and resources, working with professional databases and questionnaires and test databases ? C.E.E.O.L., ERIC, PAO, PIO, ProQuest, PSYNDEXplus with Testfinder, Springer Link, Wiley Interscience). 3) Theoretical research: formulation of the research question, survey of resources and sources for the topic, reflecting and identifying problems and criteria, suggesting theoretic formulation of the answer and a hypothesis, connecting in the discourse relating to the problem, elaborating theoretic hypothesis, adopting or rejecting it, discussion on the impact of the theory. 4) History and current state of quantitative research in education, theoretical grounds and selection of quantitative methodology, advantages and disadvantages of quantitative methodology in relation to the research problem, hypotheses, selection of an adequate method of data collection, methods of proving hypotheses, material and statistical hypotheses in research. 5) Theoretical grounds and the selection of qualitative methodology, advantages and disadvantages of qualitative methodology in relation to the research problem, ethnographic, phenomenologic, narrative, dramaturgic approach, data analysis. Inductive analysis. Thematic analysis. Anchored theory, results of qualitative research and their presentation. 6) Mixed research design, its advantages and disadvantages. 7) Ethical principles of scientific, research and publishing work.
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Work with Text (with Book, Textbook), Methods of Written Work, Demonstration
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Learning outcomes
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The aim of the course is to introduce students to the basics of scientific work pointing to the theoretical background of the research problem, formulating research questions and design research project. The course also deals with the methods of working with data in both quantitative and qualitative research and ethics of scientific work.
The students will be able to: 1) analyze and evaluate professional resources and the output of databases with the aim of theoretical and methodological anchoring of the topics of dissertations, 2) recognize and compare the assets of individual scientific concepts and models of research in education, 3) connect the theories with methodology and specific research methods in education, 4) determine the limits of application of the quantitative and qualitative approach in educational research, 5) suggest a design of theoretic, quantitative, qualitative or mixed research in education, 6) characterize the ethical principles in science and research
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Prerequisites
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Preparation and defence of the methodological project of the dissertation (cca 10 pages). The project must include: Need to define research problematic of your project and basic terms (by topics of your dissertation work). 2. Description and summary of solution or knowledge (recherche, basis for aim of work, formulation of searching issues). 3. Aim of your work. 4. Phases of your research project (access to solution, methods, techniques, tools, etc.). 5. Organization, material and financial budget covering of your research project (time schedule, line up of your research, timetable of phases...). 6. Expected value of your research for future evaluation from your obtained data - result evaluation (ways of presentation, publications such as books, journals, etc.). 7. References list and sources (quotation of them Formal typography of text structure: - oriental size of project is 10 pages of structural text (layout of it you can find in Směrnice Děkanky www.pdf.upol.cz) -project is co-operation of student and tutor of his work -project is necessary to submit 14 days before exam at least. Student have to send it to doc. Chráska email miroslav.chraska@upol.cz , also print it and get it to doc. Chráska drop-box at the faculty.
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Assessment methods and criteria
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Oral exam, Seminar Work
A) Preparation and defence of the methodological project of the dissertation (cca 10 pages). B) Topics: 1) Science and philosophy. Philosophy and methodology. Neo-positivistic point of view on the science and philosophy. Model of falsification science. Paradigms in science. 2) Theories which influence to qualitative research. Hermeneutics and interpretation in science Phenomenological analysis. Narrative access of research. Dramatic access of research. Ethnographic access to research. 3) Theories with influence to quantitative research. Positivism and Neo-positivism. 4) Types of measuring in pedagogical research and their properties. 5) Descriptive statistic methods (characteristic of aspects, degree of variability, methods of graphical data presentation, methods of exploration analysis). 6) Normal share-out and properties of it. 7) Statistic tests of relevancy for nominal, ordinal and metric data. 8) Determination tightness of relationships between variables. (correlative & regressive analysis in pedagogical research) 9) Simple analysis and two factor analysis. Analysis of variance - ANOVA. 10) Experiment and possibilities of application in pedagogical research, types and rules of realization of experiment. 11) Questionnaire, types of questions (close, open, etc.). Questionnaire construction. Categorization and systematization of the obtained data, categorization and interpretation of data. 12) Methods of measuring social relations by using sociometrical technique. Research of preferred attitudes. 13) Tests, types of tests. Test oriented on to knowledges and skills and their classification, types of test tasks. Principles of making didactic tests. Verification and optimalization of didactics tests. Making of standardized didactics tests. 14) Sematic differential. Construction of sematic differential, graphical presentation of the results. Two factorial sematic differentiation. 15) Q-methodology, principles and meaning of use this method. Q-types, Q-sorting and other opportunities of use and evaluation. Identification of reliability of Q-methodology. 16) Multidimensional statistic methods and possibilities of them in pedagogical research. Analysis of main components, explorative and confirmative factorial analysis, cluster analysis. 17) Narrative theories. Theoretical and methodological accesses. Processes and procedures of narrative theories. Collection of data. Typology of data mining and coding. Construction of theory from obtained sample. 18) Ethnographical access. Theoretical and methodical access. Identification and formulation research issue. Outdoor research and reporting. 19) Case research. Theoretical and methodical access. Typology of case studies. Research question. Definition of case study research and election of case. Phases of case study research. Analysis postproduction. 20) Biographical research. Typology of biographical research. Respondent access to research. Collection of data. Critical areas in biography. Analysis and interpretation consequences. 21) Critical and action research. Theoretical and methodological access. Phases of research. Typical using methods for action research. 22) Qualitative research project. Methods election. Observation. Typology of observation, dialogs and their types. Content analysis. Focus groups as method for data collection. Selection of participants and levelling of focus group structure. Leading and analysis focus groups. Influences on focus groups. Ways of report. 23) Mixed strategies of research. Traditional access. Phases and models of research. One-phase plan of mixed design. Integration of mixed designs into research. 24) Evaluation of quality in qualitative research. Criteria of validity. 25) Science, values and ethical laws. Ethical way of research.
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Recommended literature
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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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