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Introduction to
Educational Research
Assistant Professor
Meenu Choudhary
Sri Guru Teg Bahadur College Of
Education , Khankot, Amritsar, India
WHAT IS RESEARCH
Research in common parlance refers to a reach for
knowledge. As a scientific and systematic search for
pertinent information on a specific topic. In fact
research is an art of scientific investigating.
According to Advanced Learners' Dictionary of Current English:
“A careful investigation or inquiry specially through
search for new facts in any branch of knowledge.”
WHAT IS EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH?
Education research is a process of solving
problems related to education. Education. It is
careful and critical search for knowledge
related to education. It is the formal process to
correct precious errors, manipulate and control
variables, verify and extend theories and
generalities and discover new things with an
ultimate objective to advance for the welfare
of the society.
CHARACTERISTICS OF EDUCATIONAL RESEARCHES
1. Educational research involves a process which is
formal, systematic and exhaustive. The investigator has
to proceed very systematically to achieve his objectives.
He has to be very careful in making manipulations,
applying controls, making analysis of data, testing
hypotheses and making generalization for the
advancement of knowledge in the field of education.
CHARACTERISTICS OF EDUCATIONAL RESEARCHES
2. Educational research investigates theories and
skills of education as education is both science and
art.
3. Educational research is scientific in the sense
that it involves the testing of hypotheses.
4. Educational research corrects previous errors and
misconceptions and brings new facts into light. It
suggests improvements in different areas related to
education.
8. It open new channels for investigation. Knowledge constructs
new knowledge. Constructivism of knowledge is the goal of
education research.
9. It changes the personality of the researcher. The researcher
develops a scientific outlook. He develops a researcher’s life style
having positive attitude towards things. He is systematic and
objective in approach, free from superstitions having critical and
independent thinking.
HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT OF
EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH
 The scientific era in the physical sciences began
in the seventeenth century. The emergence of
education as a science is only eighty years old. It
was due not only to the complex nature of the
phenomena to be studied, but also to slow
progress in the development of the measuring
tools for collecting data of educational interest.
The history of various developments, in
educational research, therefore is closely linked
with some of the significant development in the
history of measurement and testing.
THE HISTORY OF ITS GROWTH MAY CONVENIENTLY BE
DIVIDED INTO FOUR PHASES
1. Educational Research Before 1900
2. Educational Research From 1900 To 1920
3. Educational Research From 1920 To 1945
4. Educational Research after 1945
WAYS OF KNOWING
•Five ways we can know something
•Personal experience
•Tradition
•Experts and authorities
•Logic
-Inductive
-Deductive
•The scientific method
EAL 7794 Fall 05 10
Identifying A Research Problem
Specifying a problem
Justifying it
Why do we need to study it?
Reviewing the Literature
Locating Resources
Selecting
Summarizing
Purpose and
Methodology
Purpose Statements
Funneling/Narrowing to
research questions or
hypothesis
STEP ONE
STEP TWO
STEP THREE
Collecting Data
Study Groups/Control & Treatment
Permission
Gathering Information
STEP FOUR
STEP FIVE
Research Process Cycle
Reporting & Evaluating
What does this mean?
Which audience
Structuring report
Analysis/Interpretatio
n
Breaking down data
Depicting Data
Explaining Data
TYPES OF RESEARCH
BASIC RESEARCH :
--This is also called pure research or
fundamental research.
--Its aim is to discover the basic truth and thus
to establish the principles.
--Basic research is primarily concerned with
the formulation of a theory or a contribution
to the existing body of knowledge.
--Its major aim is to obtain and use the
empirical data to formulate, expand or
evaluate thinking.
Cont…………………..
Basic Research :
--It represents a rigorous and structured type of
analysis.
--It employs careful sampling procedures in order to
extend the findings beyond the group or situation and
thus develops theories by discovering proved
generalization or principles.
--The results of this research are not directly
applicable in the field situations or it has little concern
for the application of the findings or social usefulness
of the findings.
Cont…………..
APPLIED RESEARCH is directed towards the immediate, specific and
practical problems. It is performed in relation to actual problem
and under the conditions in which they are found in practice.
--The goal of applied research in terms of adding scientific
knowledge acquires only a secondary position. It places
importance on a problem here and now.
--It has most of the characteristics of basic research but its
methodology is not as rigorous as that of basic research.
--Its findings are to be evaluated in terms of local applicability and
not in terms of universal validity.
--It is mainly intended to improve school practices and to greater
teacher effectiveness in practical manner. Most of the problems
faced by teachers policy planners, and administrators are solved
through applied researches.
Cont………….
• IN ACTION RESEARCH, emphasis is more on action or practical
work than on theory. Here questions of day to day life situations
are taken up with the view to improve the practical situations.
Thus action research is similar to applied research in many ways.
Applied research involves a large number of samples as
compared to the action research.
• Action research is carried out by teachers, principals or head
masters of education institutions, administrators, supervisors.
• Action research is restricted to class room practices. All most
every teacher faces a number of problems in the class room
situations which need immediate solutions, For example: The
problem may be : Poor English spelling of the students, Poor
Hand writing, The problem of indiscipline and the problem of
slow learner etc.
• “It is a type of research in the field of education, which is
undertaken by educational practitioners to under stand or solve
the problems of the local school and community”
- Stephen M.Correy
FEATURES OF ACTION RESEARCH
-It is informal.
-It is of flexible type.
-It deals with some situational problem.
-Its goal is to bring about improvement in
the situations.
-It does not aim at generalization of any
type.
-Its outcomes are not taken up in a formal
way.
-The problem is very real as it is taken out of
some class room situations.
-It is self evaluative.
-The use of Action Research is direct and
immediate.
NEED OF EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH
1. Education today is child centred. All round development of the
personality of the child is one of the important goals of education.
educational research is needed to solve various problems related to
measurement, evaluation and development of personality of the
child.
2. The meaning we give to education today is more vast and complex.
It is a cluster of difficult trades, an aggregate of processes based on
specific techniques and action with individuals and groups, that is
organised, planned, controlled and evaluated. In order to solve the
complexity of relationships and processes a considerable research in
education is needed.
Cont……….
3. Education is both science and art. As science it is based on theories,
laws and principles and as art it is an activity and an application which
requires skills and training. In order to make an effective application of
the laws and principles and to provide training in skills and techniques
educational research is needed. Educational research is of much
significance to improve the art of teaching to make the students learn
effectively.
4. The advancement that the material world has made has given rise
to problems of terrorism, threats and clashes to the modern world.
Education is a process of socialization which can meet the challenge of
increasing contradiction and belligerency. A continuous research is
needed to solve this complex social problem.
7) Educational research affects personality of the
researcher. It teaches him ‘how to solve problems
to realize truth.’ he is not liable to accept the
findings of others unless he tests them.
8) It is needed to make education administration
efficient and effective. It helps in decision making.
9) Educational research is needed for a teacher to
improve his teaching, his methodology, his skills, his
planning and to make him up to date in information
and knowledge.
Cont……….
LIMITATIONS OF EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH
1. Complexity of subject matter:
Educational research deals with individuals. Each
individuals is unique in the way he grows, in his mental,
social and emotional behaviour, and in his total
personality. The researcher in the field of education has
to study the individual in groups and the impact of the
behaviour of group members on an individual.
LIMITATIONS OF EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH
2. Difficulties in observation:
Observation of human behaviour is more
subjective than the observation of physical or
biological phenomena. The subjectivity on the
part of the observer has a direct impact on the
interpretation and findings on which he bases his
conclusions.
LIMITATIONS OF EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH
3. Difficulties in replication:
The physicist can find objectively and accurately
resistance of a wire in the laboratory. He can report his
findings and the experiment can be easily replicated by
others. This is not easily possible in education.
4. Interaction of observer and subjects:
The researcher in the field of education is also a human
being. His presence as an observer in a situation may change
the behavior of his subjects.
LIMITATIONS OF EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH
5. Difficulty in control:
The rigid control of experimental conditions is possible in the
laboratory of physical or biological sciences. It is not possible in
educational studies.
6. Measurement problems:
The tools used for measurement and data collection in the
educational studies are much less valid and reliable than the tools of
the natural scientist.
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Educational research

  • 1. Introduction to Educational Research Assistant Professor Meenu Choudhary Sri Guru Teg Bahadur College Of Education , Khankot, Amritsar, India
  • 2. WHAT IS RESEARCH Research in common parlance refers to a reach for knowledge. As a scientific and systematic search for pertinent information on a specific topic. In fact research is an art of scientific investigating. According to Advanced Learners' Dictionary of Current English: “A careful investigation or inquiry specially through search for new facts in any branch of knowledge.”
  • 3. WHAT IS EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH? Education research is a process of solving problems related to education. Education. It is careful and critical search for knowledge related to education. It is the formal process to correct precious errors, manipulate and control variables, verify and extend theories and generalities and discover new things with an ultimate objective to advance for the welfare of the society.
  • 4. CHARACTERISTICS OF EDUCATIONAL RESEARCHES 1. Educational research involves a process which is formal, systematic and exhaustive. The investigator has to proceed very systematically to achieve his objectives. He has to be very careful in making manipulations, applying controls, making analysis of data, testing hypotheses and making generalization for the advancement of knowledge in the field of education.
  • 5. CHARACTERISTICS OF EDUCATIONAL RESEARCHES 2. Educational research investigates theories and skills of education as education is both science and art. 3. Educational research is scientific in the sense that it involves the testing of hypotheses. 4. Educational research corrects previous errors and misconceptions and brings new facts into light. It suggests improvements in different areas related to education.
  • 6. 8. It open new channels for investigation. Knowledge constructs new knowledge. Constructivism of knowledge is the goal of education research. 9. It changes the personality of the researcher. The researcher develops a scientific outlook. He develops a researcher’s life style having positive attitude towards things. He is systematic and objective in approach, free from superstitions having critical and independent thinking.
  • 7. HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT OF EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH  The scientific era in the physical sciences began in the seventeenth century. The emergence of education as a science is only eighty years old. It was due not only to the complex nature of the phenomena to be studied, but also to slow progress in the development of the measuring tools for collecting data of educational interest. The history of various developments, in educational research, therefore is closely linked with some of the significant development in the history of measurement and testing.
  • 8. THE HISTORY OF ITS GROWTH MAY CONVENIENTLY BE DIVIDED INTO FOUR PHASES 1. Educational Research Before 1900 2. Educational Research From 1900 To 1920 3. Educational Research From 1920 To 1945 4. Educational Research after 1945
  • 9. WAYS OF KNOWING •Five ways we can know something •Personal experience •Tradition •Experts and authorities •Logic -Inductive -Deductive •The scientific method
  • 10. EAL 7794 Fall 05 10 Identifying A Research Problem Specifying a problem Justifying it Why do we need to study it? Reviewing the Literature Locating Resources Selecting Summarizing Purpose and Methodology Purpose Statements Funneling/Narrowing to research questions or hypothesis STEP ONE STEP TWO STEP THREE Collecting Data Study Groups/Control & Treatment Permission Gathering Information STEP FOUR STEP FIVE Research Process Cycle Reporting & Evaluating What does this mean? Which audience Structuring report Analysis/Interpretatio n Breaking down data Depicting Data Explaining Data
  • 11. TYPES OF RESEARCH BASIC RESEARCH : --This is also called pure research or fundamental research. --Its aim is to discover the basic truth and thus to establish the principles. --Basic research is primarily concerned with the formulation of a theory or a contribution to the existing body of knowledge. --Its major aim is to obtain and use the empirical data to formulate, expand or evaluate thinking.
  • 12. Cont………………….. Basic Research : --It represents a rigorous and structured type of analysis. --It employs careful sampling procedures in order to extend the findings beyond the group or situation and thus develops theories by discovering proved generalization or principles. --The results of this research are not directly applicable in the field situations or it has little concern for the application of the findings or social usefulness of the findings.
  • 13. Cont………….. APPLIED RESEARCH is directed towards the immediate, specific and practical problems. It is performed in relation to actual problem and under the conditions in which they are found in practice. --The goal of applied research in terms of adding scientific knowledge acquires only a secondary position. It places importance on a problem here and now. --It has most of the characteristics of basic research but its methodology is not as rigorous as that of basic research. --Its findings are to be evaluated in terms of local applicability and not in terms of universal validity. --It is mainly intended to improve school practices and to greater teacher effectiveness in practical manner. Most of the problems faced by teachers policy planners, and administrators are solved through applied researches.
  • 14. Cont…………. • IN ACTION RESEARCH, emphasis is more on action or practical work than on theory. Here questions of day to day life situations are taken up with the view to improve the practical situations. Thus action research is similar to applied research in many ways. Applied research involves a large number of samples as compared to the action research. • Action research is carried out by teachers, principals or head masters of education institutions, administrators, supervisors. • Action research is restricted to class room practices. All most every teacher faces a number of problems in the class room situations which need immediate solutions, For example: The problem may be : Poor English spelling of the students, Poor Hand writing, The problem of indiscipline and the problem of slow learner etc. • “It is a type of research in the field of education, which is undertaken by educational practitioners to under stand or solve the problems of the local school and community” - Stephen M.Correy
  • 15. FEATURES OF ACTION RESEARCH -It is informal. -It is of flexible type. -It deals with some situational problem. -Its goal is to bring about improvement in the situations. -It does not aim at generalization of any type. -Its outcomes are not taken up in a formal way. -The problem is very real as it is taken out of some class room situations. -It is self evaluative. -The use of Action Research is direct and immediate.
  • 16. NEED OF EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH 1. Education today is child centred. All round development of the personality of the child is one of the important goals of education. educational research is needed to solve various problems related to measurement, evaluation and development of personality of the child. 2. The meaning we give to education today is more vast and complex. It is a cluster of difficult trades, an aggregate of processes based on specific techniques and action with individuals and groups, that is organised, planned, controlled and evaluated. In order to solve the complexity of relationships and processes a considerable research in education is needed.
  • 17. Cont………. 3. Education is both science and art. As science it is based on theories, laws and principles and as art it is an activity and an application which requires skills and training. In order to make an effective application of the laws and principles and to provide training in skills and techniques educational research is needed. Educational research is of much significance to improve the art of teaching to make the students learn effectively. 4. The advancement that the material world has made has given rise to problems of terrorism, threats and clashes to the modern world. Education is a process of socialization which can meet the challenge of increasing contradiction and belligerency. A continuous research is needed to solve this complex social problem.
  • 18. 7) Educational research affects personality of the researcher. It teaches him ‘how to solve problems to realize truth.’ he is not liable to accept the findings of others unless he tests them. 8) It is needed to make education administration efficient and effective. It helps in decision making. 9) Educational research is needed for a teacher to improve his teaching, his methodology, his skills, his planning and to make him up to date in information and knowledge. Cont……….
  • 19. LIMITATIONS OF EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH 1. Complexity of subject matter: Educational research deals with individuals. Each individuals is unique in the way he grows, in his mental, social and emotional behaviour, and in his total personality. The researcher in the field of education has to study the individual in groups and the impact of the behaviour of group members on an individual.
  • 20. LIMITATIONS OF EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH 2. Difficulties in observation: Observation of human behaviour is more subjective than the observation of physical or biological phenomena. The subjectivity on the part of the observer has a direct impact on the interpretation and findings on which he bases his conclusions.
  • 21. LIMITATIONS OF EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH 3. Difficulties in replication: The physicist can find objectively and accurately resistance of a wire in the laboratory. He can report his findings and the experiment can be easily replicated by others. This is not easily possible in education. 4. Interaction of observer and subjects: The researcher in the field of education is also a human being. His presence as an observer in a situation may change the behavior of his subjects.
  • 22. LIMITATIONS OF EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH 5. Difficulty in control: The rigid control of experimental conditions is possible in the laboratory of physical or biological sciences. It is not possible in educational studies. 6. Measurement problems: The tools used for measurement and data collection in the educational studies are much less valid and reliable than the tools of the natural scientist.