About Research & Assessment:
Research in Education
One way of learning about scholarly work and communication practices is by analyzing publications in a field.
Question:
What kinds of education papers have you read for a class or for writing a paper? Take a minute to remember or to brainstorm about the types of journal articles you’ve seen in education journals. What did the authors do? What are they writing about?
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A recent report on “Scholarly Communication in the Education Discipline,” commissioned by JSTOR, developed a taxonomy of educational research.
Their taxonomy of research is broken down into 5 broad subfields:
- Look at the introduction to a research paper, which often describes the background and relevance of a research topic to see how a research topic has evolved.
- Look at the bibliography both to see what kinds of documents are cited (e.g., journal articles, books, etc.) as well as the type of content (e.g., research paper, review or synthesis, case study, guidelines, etc.).
- Literature reviews or papers that analyze the development of a research idea are also good ways to become familiar with the intellectual characteristics of a field.
Question:
What kinds of education papers have you read for a class or for writing a paper? Take a minute to remember or to brainstorm about the types of journal articles you’ve seen in education journals. What did the authors do? What are they writing about?
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A recent report on “Scholarly Communication in the Education Discipline,” commissioned by JSTOR, developed a taxonomy of educational research.
Their taxonomy of research is broken down into 5 broad subfields:
- General research
- Administration
- Psychology, counseling, and human development
- Teaching Methods (general, technology, subject focused, population focused)
- Context of education, education policy, and comparative education
- The research-practice divide
- Dual nature of the field: professional and academic
- Applied versus theoretical research
- Quantitative versus qualitative methods
- Empirical versus non-empirical work
| schol_comm_educ_disc_jstor_report.pdf |
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Go Deeper
A recent paper in Educational Researcher includes a dialogue between researchers coming from different conceptions of educational researcher, each discussing what they look for in quality research.
Learning from Our Differences: A Dialogue Across Perspectives on Quality in Education Research
Pamela A. Moss, D. C. Phillips, Frederick D. Erickson, Robert E. Floden, Patti A. Lather and Barbara L.
Schneider
Educational Researcher 2009; 38; 501-517
[Link below: learning_from_diff.pdf]
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Go Deeper
A recent paper in Educational Researcher includes a dialogue between researchers coming from different conceptions of educational researcher, each discussing what they look for in quality research.
Learning from Our Differences: A Dialogue Across Perspectives on Quality in Education Research
Pamela A. Moss, D. C. Phillips, Frederick D. Erickson, Robert E. Floden, Patti A. Lather and Barbara L.
Schneider
Educational Researcher 2009; 38; 501-517
[Link below: learning_from_diff.pdf]
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| learning_from_diff.pdf |
