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Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
Education Research That Matters: Ways of Researching
University of Birmingham and Chartered College of Teaching
This course offered a grounding in the key research methods used in education research as applied to a range of pressing issues in education. It critically examined the benefits and pitfalls of different methods and their match to particular sorts of research problems.
4 weeks, 3 hours per week
Deborah Youdell
Professor of Sociology of Education
University of Birmingham
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Understand the range of research methods that might be useful in researching education
- Understand qualitative approaches and action research with children and teachers inside learning settings
- Understand quantitative approaches and statistical methods in the context of school performance measures
- Understand techniques for synthesis and review of research reports with a focus on evidence-based policy and practice
- Understand mixed methods and interdisciplinary research drawing on new work on the ‘science of learning’
Syllabus
- Week 1. Qualitative and action research - doing education research with teachers and children.
- Week 2. Quantitative methods and statistical analysis - interrogate school performance.
- Week 3. Research synthesis and review - using different approaches synthesis and review to support evidence-based practice.
- Week 4. Mixed methods and interdisciplinary research - engaging with the ‘Science of Learning’.
Issued on 18th February 2021
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