Educational research methods

The advancement of RREE in Malaysia really took off with the advent of PhD in engineering education programs. The increasing number of research activities as well as funding and the positive outcomes from the research conducted managed to attract engineering academics to not only participate in the research teams but also properly learn educational research methods and the related grounding theories. Nevertheless, there is still a lot to be done, especially in terms of journal publications. 

Borrego, M. (2007) Conceptual Difficulties Experienced by Trained Engineers Learning Educational Research Methods./o r a/ of Engineering Education, 96 (2), 91-102. 

Cohen, L., Manion, L., Morrison, K. (2000). Research methods in education (5th ed.). London and New York RoutledgePalmer. 

Piagetian theory has had a profound effect on the way we think about learners and learning as well as the methods by which this dynamic development process is translated to learning environments 10). It dominated science education research for many years, becoming internal to science education thus, not only students were categorized as concrete or formal thinkers, but also chemical concepts were distinguished into concrete and formal 8, 11). In the opinion of this author and others 10, 12) it still has important messages to convey to science and chemistry educators. 

Educational research utilizes research methods from the social sciences. These methods are broadly distinguished into quantitative and qualitative ones. 

All biochemical laboratory activities, whether in education, research, or industry, are replete with techniques that must be carried out almost on a daily basis. This chapter outlines the theoretical and practical aspects of some of these general and routine procedures, including use of buffers, pH and other electrodes, dialysis, membrane filtration, lyophilization, centrifugal concentration, and quantitative methods for protein and nucleic acid measurement. 

Jane and Maureen s movie poster activity provides a DCM heuristic for uncovering educators values about writing. DCM-inspired activities are inherently visual, and they provide alternatives to traditional interviews, surveys, and questionnaires. DCM-driven methods, such as this movie poster activity, make visible aspects of rhetorical values that traditional research methods may not be able to reveal. In fact, Broad (personal communication, October 6, 2006) explained that UNR s innovative application of DCM reveals educators "latent rhetorical values" using a "psychoanalytical approach." Stalions... 

One inevitable question is how then should rhetorical values or curricular criteria, once they have been discovered and discussed, be defined and articulated More specifically, how should the DCM documents be used to enhance existing documents and practices As this collection has demonstrated, a dynamic criteria map is not the end product of all DCM endeavors. DCM is a research method educators employ to design and enhance assessment measures, which may include a dynamic criteria map as an assessment tool, but not necessarily. 

Cohen L, Manion L, Morrison K (2000) Research Methods in Education, 5th edn. Routledge Palmer, London... 

Blaxter L, Hughes C, Tigh M (1996) How to Research. Open University Press, Buckingham Cohen L, Manion L (1994) Research Methods in Education, 4th edn. Routledge, London Petty Ci (2001) Teaching Today. Nelson Thornes Ltd., Cheltenham... 

How do I investigate the research questions once I have them Chapter 9 Mixed Methods Deigns in Chemical Education Research Marcy Hamby Towns... 

As the name suggests, the case study involves a detailed examination of an individual case, which in chemistry education research is most likely to be an individual student or an individual instructor. In order to gather sufficiently detailed data about both the individual and the context(s) in which the boundaries of the case exist, the researcher employs multiple sources of data and multiple methods to triangulate the findings. 

The Use of Triangulation Methods in Qualitative Educational Research by Maria Oliver-Hoyo and DeeDee Allen, Journal of College Science Teaching, 2006, 35(4), 42. 

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