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Educational Research

Educational Research

Knowledge of Educational research methods is important because educators must be able to access, understand and evaluate the findings of research and the claims of researchers.

Research - formal, systematic application of the scientific and disciplined inquiry approach to the study of problems.

Educational Research: Scientific and Discipline Inquiry

Educational Research - is the systematic application of a family of methods employed to provide trustworthy information about educational problems, issues, and topics. Its primary goal is to explain or help understand educational issues, questions and processes.

• Rarely does any single study produce definitive answers to research questions. Cumulated studies are the basis for research progress and understanding.
• Compared to other methods of knowing, such as tradition, expert advice, personal experience, and inductive or deductive logic, a scientific and disciplined inquiry approach provides the most unbiased and verifiable understandings.
• This approach is made up of four main steps:

1. Identify a question or problem to be studied
2. Describe and execute procedures to collect information about the problem being studied.
3. Analyze the collected information
4. State results or implications based on the analysis.

Educational Research encompasses many types of topics, procedures, methods for analyzing data, and formats for reporting conclusions, implications, and findings.

Basic Research and Applied Research

Basic Research - conducted to develop or refine theory, not to solve immediate practical problems

Applied Research - conducted to find solutions to current practical problems.

Q and A: Education

Q and A in Education

Question: What is the meaning of the statement "Education in this country is a state function"?

Answer:

" This means that all educational institutions in the Philippines, public and private, are under the supervision and subject to the regulation of the State. This is a constitutional mandate. Since education is a State Function, the Philippine Congress or parliament has a large power in the organization, support, and control of our school system. The State is, therefore, the agency which regulates the organization, administration, supervision, and instruction in public and private schools, colleges, and universities.

Education as a State function placed our school system under the administration and supervision of the Department of Education. Our school administration falls under the Line and Staff school administration. The authority and responsibility of the line officers are derived from the power of the law. In this type of school administration, the Secretary of Education is the highest officer in our school system and the principal teacher is the lowest line officer in the field."

(Reference: Gregorio, Herman C., Introduction to Education in Philippine Setting, page 172)

How Computers Work:Three Key Concepts

1. The purpose of computer is to process data into information
     
     Data -  consists of the raw facts and figures that are processed into information 
     Information - is the data that has been summarized or otherwise manipulated for use in decision making

2. You should know the difference between hardware and software
      
      Hardware - consists of all the machinery and equipment in a computer system
      Software - consists of all the instructions that tell the computer how to perform a task

3. Regardless of type and size, all computers follow the same four basic operations

• Input - is whatever is put in to a computer system
• Processing - is the manipulation a computer does to transform data into information
• Storage - is of two types -temporary storage and permanent storage. 

          Temporary Storage - or memory, is the computer circuitry that temporary holds data waiting to be   processed

          Secondary Storage - simply called storage, is the area in the computer where data or information is held permanently.

• Output - is whatever is output from the computer system, the results of processing
• Communications Operation - computers have communication ability which offers an extension capability. With wired or wireless communications connections, data may be input from afar, processed in remote area, stored in several different locations, and output in yet other places.

(Reference: Using Information Technology Fifth Edition by Brian K. Williams and Stacey C. Sawyer, pp 10-11 )