Research in Education Partial

What is educational research?

• It is a process that focuses on creating teaching materials without considering the effectiveness of learning.

• It is a form of entertainment aimed at making classes more fun without a clear academic goal.

• It is a study conducted only in higher education and has no relevance in other educational levels.

• It is a systematic process that seeks to understand and improve teaching and learning processes in various educational contexts.

Research in education involves these roles

• Students and their parents

• Searchers, practitioners, policy makers

• Teachers and students

• Policy makers and teachers

Why do we carry out educational research?

• To obtain funding without the need for results.

• To follow trends without questioning

• To improve the quality of education and teaching practices.

• To promote education randomly

Also, Educational research is carrying out to explore issues, to shape policy and to improve practice

• True

• False

What do you need as an educational researcher?

• To manage different softwares, a problem

• A plan, to be flexible, analyze, summarize, contrast, evaluate

• An educational context, the research question, objectives

• An educational context, methodology, cognitive abilities

A good research question, it´s essential to guide your research report.

• True

• False

A good research question needs to be:

• Focused, new, important, specific

• Focused, interesting, innovative, concrete

• Focused, researchable, feasible, specific, complex, relevant

• Focused, easy, clear, ambiguous

Sources of information to identify your topic in your research:

• Problem, gap, conceptualization, inspiration

• Questions, previous studies

• Interesting topics, gaps and innovative studies

To state the problem, you have to consider:

• How, who, why

• Where, who, what

• Who, what, what time

Here you can find studies related to your problem:

• ChatGPT, Monica, Google Schoolar

• Databases, Google Scholar, Research Rabbit

• Libraries, Copilot, Claude