'Educational Research' is an elective course offered in B. Sc. - B. Ed. in Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science program at the School of Arts and Sciences, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Mysuru campus.
On completion of the course, the student teacher will;
- Acquire knowledge of research in the field of education.
- Know the fundamental principles and functions of educational research.
- Review the educational research articles.
- Understand the steps involved in educational research.
- Develop a research proposal.
- Equip the students with the required knowledge about the ethical issues related to research.
- Explain a sampling design appropriate for a research study.
- Understand the use of different tools and techniques in educational research.
- Understand the role and use of statistics in educational research.
- Equip the students to prepare and to evaluate research reports.
Unit I: Introduction to Educational Research
- Research – meaning, definition and its importance.
- Educational research – meaning, definition, significance of educational research, need for scientific approach to research, kinds of educational research.
- Steps of educational research – identification of a research problem, review of literature, formulation of objectives and hypothesis, finalization of research design, collection of data, analysis of data and interpretation and report of results.
- Preparation of research proposal..
Unit II: Research Ethics
- Research Ethics – meaning and ethical treatment of participants.
- Ethical issues in educational research.
Unit III: Research Designs
- Research Design – meaning and criterias of a good research design.
- Quantitative research – historical research, case study and ethnography.
- Qualitative research – survey and experimental research.
- Sampling – meaning, steps in sampling design, types of sampling design.
- Methods of data collection – types of data – primary data collection methods – observation, experimentation, simulation and interview.
- Tools for collecting data – Questionnaire, observation schedules, rating scales.
Unit IV: Analysis and Presentation of Data
- Processing of data – Editing, coding, classification, tabulation,
- Graphical representation of data - frequency tables, mean, bar charts, pie charts, histograms, cross tabulation, other table based analysis, Descriptive and inferential statistics.
- Measures of central tendency – mean, median, mode., Measures of variability – range, quartile deviation, standard deviation., Normal Curve., correlation.,chi-square tests., Analysis of variance (ANOVA).
- A brief introduction to hypothesis testing.
Unit V: Report Writing and Presentation
- Report - Introduction, meaning of report, types of reports.
- Writing a report - Planning report writing, format of a research report, report writing stages.
- Presentation.
- Aggarwal, Y.P. (1998), Statistical Methods, Sterling, New Delhi.
- Aggarwal, Y.P. (1998), The Science of Educational Research: A Source book, Nirmal, Kurukshetra.
- Best, John W. and Kahn James V (1995), Research in Education, Prentice Hall, New Delhi.
- Burns, R.B. (1991), Introduction to Research in Education, Prentice Hall, New Delhi.
- Garrett, H.E. (1973), Statistics in psychology and Education, Vakils, Feffer and Simon, Bombay.
- Kerlinger, F.N. (1973), Foundation of Behavioral Research, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, New York.
- Koul, Lokesh (1988), Methodology of Educational Research, Vikas, New Delhi. Kurtz, A.K. and Mayo S.T. (1980), Statistical Methods in Education and Psychology, Narola, New Delhi.
- Mcmillion, James H. and Schumarcher, S. (1989), Research in Education: A Conceptual Introduction, Harper and Collins, New York.
- Mouly, A.J. (1963), The Science of Educational Research, Eurosia, New Delhi.
- Neuman, W.L. (1997), Social Research Methods: Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches, Allyn and Bacon, Boston.
- P. and Benjabin Fruchter (1973), Fundamental Statistics in Psychology and Education, Mac Graw Hill, New York.
- R.A.Sharma ;Fundamentals of Educational Research : Meerut ,Loyal Book Depot, 2003
- R.P.Bhatnagar (Ed.) Readings in Methodology of research in Education; Meerut, R Lall Book Depot, 2002.
- Travers, R,M.W. (1978), An Introduction to Educational Research, Macmillan, New York.
- Van Delen, D.B. (1962), Understanding Educational Research, Me Graw Hill, New York.
- Young, P.V. (1960), Scientific Social Surveys and Research, Prentice Hall, New York.
- Mc Burney, Donal H. (1994) Research Methods, Brooks/ cole publishing company, California
- Kumar, Ranjit (2011) Research Methods, Peasrson Education, New Delhi.
- Koul Lokesh, Methodology of Education Research, vikas publishing house pvt. Ltd. Noida.
- K V S Sharma, Statistics made Simple Do it Yourself on PC; New Delhi, Prentice Hall of India Private India Limited, 2001.
- M Rajamanikram; Statistical Methods in Psychological and Educational Research New Delhi,Concept Publishing Company, 2001.
- Prepare a Research Proposal.
- Preparation, Try Out and finalization of a tool.
- List out the ethical issues related with the research and conduct a discussion on it.
- Participate and Present the paper in workshop, Seminar and Conferences.
- Identify a problem and submit an Action Research report.
- Select a topic of your choice and write Literature Review.
- Preparation of Research report.
