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Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
Education Research that Matters: Applying Research to Your Teaching Practice
University of Birmingham and Chartered College of Teaching
The course explored ways to access research from a range of sources and how to understand and evaluate this. It included powerful search techniques, guidance on how to analyse research, and approaches to assessing its reliability and usability.
4 weeks, 3 hours per week
Deborah Youdell
Professor of Sociology of Education
University of Birmingham
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Use effective search techniques to locate useful research using a variety of sources
- Navigate research papers, identifying the significance of research findings
- Recognise the influence of bias or position on engagement with research
- Carry out successful searches that lead to locating significant pieces of research
- Analyse research and consider possible implications of findings for your context
Syllabus
- Week 1. How might engaging with research transform your practice? Popular sources: Google search and its perils or how to go wrong on Twitter.
- Week 2. How might you go about locating research to inform your practice? Major research organisations and the research they do and promote.
- Week 3. How might you go about selecting the most significant research to engage with? Open access sources: finding great research that’s free.
- Week 4. How might you most effectively judge the research you come into contact with and move to implement? Is it any good and what does it tell me?
Issued on 17th October 2019
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