Classroom-Based Research (P00354)

? Credit Points : 20 ? SCQF Level : 11 ? Acronym : EDU-P-CBRLING

Building on work done on research methods in semester 1, participants will examine some of the instruments and methods used in classroom-related data collection: questionnaires, interview schedules, classroom observation schedules (and ethnographic alternatives), diaries, repertory grids, and stimulated introspection instruments. They will gain practical experience in using some of these methods, particularly classroom observation, to collect and analyse data and write up results.

Entry Requirements

none

Subject Areas

Home subject area

Education, (The Moray House School of Education, Schedule C)

Delivery Information

? Normal year taken : Postgraduate

? Delivery Period : Not being delivered

? Contact Teaching Time : 3 hour(s) per week for 10 weeks

? Other Required Attendance : 20 minutes per week for 11 weeks

All of the following classes

Type	Day	Start	End	Area
Lecture	Monday	14:00	14:50	Central
Lecture	Thursday	14:00	14:50	Central
Lecture	Friday	14:00	15:50	Central

Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes

After successful completion, participants should:
- Be familiar with a wide range of current ideas and methods in classroom-based research.
- Be familiar with and able to comment on basic questions of research ideology and paradigms, including arguments for and against sociometric and illuminative research, action research and exploratory practice.
- Be able to relate research issues and practices to theories and assumptions about teaching and learning.
- Have basic competence in systematic classroom observation and at least one other classroom-based research method of their own choice.
- Be familiar with issues of reliability, validity, ethics and practicality, and able to make principled decisions about these when designing and reporting research.

Assessment Information

One project of 5000-6000 words. There will be a choice of projects involving the evaluation and/or design and/or trying out of classroom observation instruments, or the analysis of classroom-related research data (eg lesson transcripts, learner diaries.)