ESEM5634 Educational Research Methodology
Reflection Guidelines and Rubrics
Reflection (Philosophy of Research) – 20%
Start: Week 1
Due Date/s: Week 2
Learning outcome/s:
• Justify philosophy of research in education.
• Compose research proposal, research report, research references and appendices.
Instructions:
This is an individual work. You are required to read the materials on “Research Process”, prior to this activity.
"Research is a process of steps used to collect and analyze information to increase our understanding of a topic or issue" (Creswell, 2008).
1. To you, what is research and how it is conducted in education (10 Marks)
2. Find and download any recent TWO (2) educational research articles (preferably one quantitative and one qualitative) from any
journal and discuss the approaches used.
Share your responses and justify your answer in the answer space provided.
Rubrics (See how you will be graded):
Component Accomplished Skilled Developing Ineffective No Submission
(8-10 marks) (6-7 marks) (4-5 marks) (1-3 marks) (0 marks)
Reflection of Response includes all Response includes all Response is missing Response excludes essential No Submission
Research components and components and some components components and/or does
Concept and meets or exceeds all meets all requirements and/or does not fully not address the
Process requirements indicated indicated in the meet the requirements requirements indicated in
in the instructions. instructions. indicated in the the instructions.
instructions.
1
Analysis of the In-depth analysis & Good analysis; good Average analysis; Limited elaboration and No Submission
characteristics clear elaboration on elaboration of the satisfactory sometimes irrelevant
of research the approaches used approaches used in elaboration the elaboration of the
approaches in the papers. the papers. approaches used in approaches used in the
the papers papers
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