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M.Ed on Education and Innovation: EDUCMI04 - Introduction to Enquiry Methods and Innovation

The M.Ed on Education and Innovation program offers a course, EDUCMI04, which focuses on introducing students to enquiry methods and innovation in educational practice. This course is a common core foundation for other program-specific courses and is designed to help students develop a flexible repertoire of enquiry methods and approaches that foster improvements and innovation in educational practice.

Course Description

The course is offered over two semesters and provides opportunities for students to develop advanced skills in formulating good research questions, sampling strategies, research ethics, and field relations. Students will engage in critical evaluation of literature and develop specialized knowledge and skills of enquiry principles and procedures, and educational policy and practice to develop their enquiry and innovation designs and produce reports of their innovation projects.

Course Resources

The course resources include a list of recommended and required readings, which cover various topics such as educational research, quantitative, qualitative, and mixed approaches, research design, and data analysis.

Required Readings

• Educational research: quantitative, qualitative, and mixed approaches by R. Burke Johnson and Larry Christensen
• Introduction to Research in Education by Donald Ary, Lucy Cheser Jacobs, Christine K. Sorensen Irvine, and David Walker
• Real World Research by Kieran McCartan and Colin Robson
• Research Methods in Education by Louis Cohen, Lawrence Manion, and Keith Morrison
• Research Methods for Education by Peter Newby
• Educational Research: Planning, Conducting, and Evaluating Quantitative and Qualitative Research by John Creswell
• Action Research by Jean McNiff
• Qualitative Inquiry and Research Design by John W. Creswell
• Qualitative Research by Sharan B. Merriam and Elizabeth J. Tisdell
• The Coding Manual for Qualitative Researchers by Johnny Saldana
• The Ethics of Research with Children and Young People by Priscilla Alderson and Virginia Morrow
• The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Research by Norman K. Denzin and Yvonna S. Lincoln
• Your Research Project by Nicholas Stephen Robert Walliman
• Designing and Conducting Mixed Methods Research by John W. Creswell and Vicki L. Plano Clark

Course Outline

The course outline includes the following topics:

Week 1: Introduction to the Course

• Introduction to educational research
• Why study educational research?

Week 2: Critical Research Reading and Writing

• Making best use of literature

Week 3: Development of Research Questions

• Developing research questions

Week 4: Philosophical Perspectives and Quantitative Research

• Framing problems and questions in quantitative research

Week 5: Principles of Coherent Research Design

• Planning research design
• Characteristics of research design

Week 6: Qualitative Research Methodologies

• Phenomenology, ethnography, and case studies

Week 7: Qualitative Research: Action Research and Narrative

• Action research and narrative research

Week 8: Quantitative Research

• Non-experimental research

Week 9: Quantitative Research

• Experimental research

Week 10: Introduction to Mixed Methods Research

• Introduction to mixed methods research

Week 11: Ethics in Educational Research

• Research ethics

Semester 2

The second semester of the course covers the following topics:

Week 1: Qualitative Data Collection

• Interview, observations, and visual methods

Week 2: Qualitative Data Analysis

• Data analysis and reporting
• Developing coherence between data analysis and elements of research plans
• Issues of reflexivity and trustworthiness

Week 3: Practical Strategies for Analysing Qualitative Data

• Thematic analysis
• Grounded theory analysis
• Framework analysis

Week 4: Quantitative Research: Data Collection Methods

• Tests
• Questionnaire and survey
• Structured observations
• Secondary data

Week 5: Quantitative Research: Validity & Reliability of Tools and Results

• Validity and reliability of tools and results

Week 6: Quantitative Research: Basics for Analysing Quantitative Data

• Introduction to scientific and statistical reasoning
• Descriptive analysis and reporting
• Introduction to SPSS

Week 7: Quantitative Research: Analysing and Reporting Quantitative Data

• Inferential statistical analysis
• T-test analysis and reporting
• Correlation analysis and reporting

Week 8: Quantitative Research: Analysing and Reporting Quantitative Data

• Introduction to one-way ANOVA and reporting
• Multiple comparisons

Week 10: Quantitative Research: Analysing and Reporting Quantitative Data

• Introduction to simple linear regression
• Advanced topics: sample size determination, effect size, critical review of quantitative data analysis example

Week 11: Research Proposal: Framework and Strategies

• Research proposal framework and strategies