Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
Education Research that Matters: Doing Research in Your Learning Community
University of Birmingham and Chartered College of Teaching
The 'Doing Research in Learning Communities' course was spread over four weeks and involved reflection on readings and video, quizzes, and online discussion with other learners in response to key questions. Key learning focused on development of a research question, selection of key appropriate data collection and data analysis methods, and summarising and presenting findings to practitioner and academic audiences.
4 weeks, 3 hours per week
Dr Karl Kitching
Reader in Education Policy, University of Birmingham
University of Birmingham
Professor Deborah Youdell
Professor of Sociology of Education and Head of School of Education, University of Birmingham
Chartered College of Teaching
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Explain the importance of developing a research culture in schools and classrooms
- Design a research project using the right data collection and analysis techniques for your needs
- Identify the best ways of communicating your research findings for the right audiences
- Develop an effective research question focused on an element of your practice
Syllabus
- Week 1: From research design to research practice – refining questions and research tools, securing samples, and ensuring ethical compliance.
- Week 2: Doing the research – becoming a teacher-researcher.
- Week 3: Analysing data – reflection, reflexivity, techniques for analysis.
- Week 4: Communicating findings and having an impact.
Issued on 10th January 2025
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