Week - 1 |
Introducing the course and its content, and the basic concepts of educational research: paradigm, onthology and epistemology |
Week - 2 |
The basic concepts of educational research: methodology, method, design, model, theory, hyphothesis |
Week - 3 |
The scientific knowledge and its features, and the ways of knowledge acquisition |
Week - 4 |
Quantitative research designs in educational research |
Week - 5 |
Qualitative research designs in educational research |
Week - 6 |
Mixed method research |
Week - 7 |
Research design and planning, and the stages of the research processes |
Week - 8 |
Mid-term exam |
Week - 9 |
Sampling, validity and relaibility in educational research, and research ethics |
Week - 10 |
Data collection technigues and instruments in educational research |
Week - 11 |
Procedures and processes of data collection |
Week - 12 |
Analysing quantitative data |
Week - 13 |
Analysing qualitative data |
Week - 14 |
Writing up and interpreting research findings |