6025C - Research

how to literature review

make reference list with google

use google scholar together with HKU library

type of research report

How to find the journal Impact Factors

research strucuture

research type

applied research

evaluation research

Basic research

reference list is one big issue

Article 1

Subtopic

group cristal

problem statement

lead in

statement of originality

Justification

innovation is not too much in education field

useful research

Research Definitions

Research methods

survery

data

questions

Research Elements

Epistemology

empiricism

Rationalism

Methodology

general framework

Paradigm

pattern or model

"The structure of scientific revolutions"

Deductive Reasoning

Deductive

Inductive

notion of abduction

Research Approaches

Qualitative Approach

Quantitative Approach

Mix Approach

Four Worldviews

"Fact":Philosophical orientations to research

Positivist

Interpretive

Critical

Research Process

Case study

ethnography

not interview

Delphi

1, find the experts is most important: they should be the expert related the dissertation

2, changing the answer of experts circle by circle

2, expert could change the implementation only by the percentage

Subtopic

Causal research:
normally the condition has not happened.

True experimental research

Randomly assign

experimental condition

Control condition

independent variable

dependent variable

Confounding variables

Non-true experiment or quasi-experiment

Correlational research:
normally the condition has already happened. focus on the behavior which have happened already

dependence is any statistical relationship between two random variables or two sets of data

Direction

Form (linear or nonlinear)

Strength (size of coefficient- weak or strong)

Questionnaire

1, 问题要跟调查对象相符： 小学生看不懂深奥的问卷

2， do you love your school: 跟questionaire ，太抽象了

3，问题是支撑作用

Sampling and Population

Structure sampling

single random sampling

stractice sampling

Systematic sampling

Un-structure sampling

snowball

convenience

Survey Process

RQ1: Do you think mobile device improve student learning?
Or
RQ2: Do you think mobile device improve student motivation, attitude, academic performance?

Structure and conduct your interview

1, how to manage the interview procedure

2, how to identify the sample number as interview paticipant, as percentage ? 4000 VS 2000

Interviewing Behavior

Group Interviewing

Focus Groups

have topic in mind, need to control the group

Recording interview data and take note

Discuss and comment the following interview questions

same or similar questions

interview protocols

Observation、Test、Personal construct

Test

Measurement

quantitative value

based on the personal constrcution

remove the contaminated

Assign number

validity

construct validity: could be able to measure what you want

dependability

reliability

consistency

credibility

Observation

inter-rater reliability

Intra-rater reliability

Gather fieldnotes first by observing as an “outsider” and then moving into the setting and observing as an “insider”