Depth Issues of Research Methods (with laboratory)

Code:

MED401

Acronym:

QAMI

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
CNAEF	Research and Intervention Methodologies in Education / Educational Sciences

Instance: 2020/2021 - A (since 21-09-2020 to 29-05-2021)

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Education Sciences
Course/CS Responsible:	Master Degree in Educational Sciences

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
MCED	29	Official Curricular Structure	2	-	8	64	216

Teaching language

Suitable for English-speaking students

Objectives

Through diversified modalities of teaching and learning, this curricular unit aims to give students conceptual and procedural tools, allowing them to develop pertinent, accurate, innovative and critical research in the field of education, responding to the objectives and competences previewed by the Master program.

Learning outcomes and competences

1.     To identify, distinguish and relate paradigms and strategies of research in education

2. To make research choices and to argue on them, in which concerns respective research paradigms, general strategies, and means of data collection and analysis, taking into account the research question, participants and contexts

3. To conceive research designs, according to the research questions, participants, contexts and ethical principles.

4. To manage the research procedure as a whole in an ethical, coherent, and valid way

5. To choose and to use software and other electronic means to operationalize the research as a process and as a product

6. To produce means of data collection, in individual and team work

7. To conduct data collection taking into account relational, technical and ethical relevant issues

8. To analyse research data,  in individual and team work 

Working method

Presencial

Program

1.     Paradigms of research in education

The hypothetical-deductive paradigm

The phenomenological -interpretative

The socio-critical paradigm

Post-modern and poststructuralist trends

The complexity paradigm

2 Types of approaches to research:

The quantitative approach

The qualitative approach

The mixed-methods approach

The emancipatory approach

3. Some general research strategies

General characteristics of descriptive and exploratory studies

Descriptive studies

Case studies

Narrative and biographical studies

Ethnographic studies

4. The research design phases and

Problem and research questions

Theory, knowledge and problem

Field of research and sources of data

Ethics of research in education

Data collection and analysis

Validation of the investigation

Iinterpretation

5. Software and other support to the operationalization of the research

Data base search

Endnote

NVivo

SPSS

6.  Means of data collection

Interviews

Focus group discussions

Participant observation

Questionnaires

Collection of documents and other traces

8 Techniques of data analysis:

Statistical analysis

Content analysis

Discourse analysis

Mandatory literature

Hadjii, Charles, & Baillé, Jacques (2001). Investigação e educação para uma «nova aliança» - 10 questões acerca da prova. Porto. Porto Editora.
Moreira João Manuel; Questionários. ISBN: 972-40-2142-4
Ghiglione Rodolphe; O^inquérito
Amado João 570; Manual de investigação qualitativa em educação. ISBN: 978-989-26-0655-2
Lessard-Hérbert Michelle; Investigação qualitativa. ISBN: 972-9295-75-1
Greenbaum Thomas L.; The^handbook for focus group research. ISBN: 0-7619-1253-3
Bruyne Paul de; Dinâmica da pesquisa em ciências sociais
Hammersley Martyn; Ethnography. ISBN: 0-422-77160-0
Israel, M, Hay, I. ; Research Ethics for Social Scientists, Sage, 2006

Complementary Bibliography

Quivy Raymond; Manual de investigação em ciências sociais. ISBN: 978-972-662-275-8
Comissão Calouste Gulbenkian (1996). Para abrir as ciências sociais: relatório da Comissão Gulbenkian sobre a reestruturação das ciências sociais. Lisboa. Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian.

Teaching methods and learning activities

Contact hours

They include sessions that are theoretical and practical, and laboratorial sessions (with all the students or by optional domain), and individual or small group tutorial sessions.

- Structured and debated presentation of contents by lecturers

- Debates

- Seminars with visiting researchers

- Simulations

- Analysis of research cases , collectively and  in small group

 

- Review and feedback on texts (10 p) on research, written by students in 3 times of the school year

- Review and feedback on the work done by students

Contact hours and independent work

- Research in databases

- Analysis of articles and research reports

- Construction of small research designs

- Construction of means of collecting data, collectively and in small group

- Research data analysis, collectively in small groups, with and without support of specific software

Hours of autonomous work

Reading of the literature

Writing of 3 works on methodology of research in education in three different moments of the academic year

Software

Endnote
SPSS
Nvivo

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation without final exam

Assessment Components

designation	Weight (%)
Participação presencial	40,00
Trabalho escrito	60,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

designation	Time (hours)
Estudo autónomo	100,00
Frequência das aulas	64,00
Trabalho de investigação	116,00
Total:	280,00

Eligibility for exams

x

Calculation formula of final grade

x

Examinations or Special Assignments

x

Internship work/project

x

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

x

Classification improvement

x

Observations

Considering the operational recommendations for maintaining academic and non-academic activities face-to-face, but in the impossibility of guaranteeing the presence of all the academic activities of the 1st semester of 2020/2021 in the current pandemic context, due to the lack of physical facilities capable of safely accommodating the number of students in this cycle of studies, this UC will partially take place at a distance, with synchronous moments, using telematic means.