MindMap Gallery The Research Proposal
During the proposal stage, students should discuss their research interests with CM faculty members, identify a research topic, conduct preliminary literature.
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Whats in a Proposal?
Introduction to the ResearchQuestion
The introduction to the research questionsets the scene and provides background onthe topic
What is the broad area of inquiry
What aspects do you wantto know/find out
What experience or general sourceshave informed your interests in thisarea
What specific question youwant to investigate in thestudy
Overview of Relevant Literature
Summarises key publications
Critically analyse previous studies
Summarise the implications ofprevious studies
Relate previous studies tothe present study
Consider the theoretical perspectives andresearch methods that have been used inprevious studies
Takes up about 1/2 of the proposal
For every 10% should be 5 articles
10 100 articles
Sources
Books
Journals
Individual experts
Peer Review
Explanation of choice of Paradigm
Discuss the researchers 'worldview' thatinforms how they collect, interpret andreport data
Paradigms reflects theresearchers belief about
Truth
Reality
What is real
Knowledge
What does it mean to know
Some Paradigms inEducational research
Positivist
Constructivist
Interpretive
Critical
Marxist emancipatory
Feministpost structural
Explanation of Choice ofMethodology and researchmethods
Methodology
The underlying theories thatinform the research
The philosophicalassumptions that underlie thestudy
Phenomenology
Postivism
Method refers to:
Details a given process orprocedure for carrying out theresearch
eg.
Case study
Grounded research
Ethnography
Action research
artsinformed
narrative
Explanation of generalresearch design
Research Design should include:
Description of participants
Data collection procedures
Reliability, validity andtrustworthiness
How data will be analysed andreported
Description of participants
Who
Description
Quantitative studies will talkabout a population
Sources of information
Documents
films
Pictures
Artefacts
How
How will you select andrecruit participants
Ethics
what ethical considerationswill you need to take intoaccount
Will only have 12different interviews
1 hour of interview takes 6hours to transcribe
Planned Data Collection Procedure
What data could you collectto answer your researchquestions
To think about:
Procedure to collect data
The researchers role in the research
Timeline for data collection
Data Collection
Interviews and focus groups
What is the participants experience
What meanings lie behindobserved behaviours orevidence
Information provided directlyfrom participants
Structured
Semistructured
Unstructured
Observations
Anecdotal
Event sequenced
Time sequenced
Documents
Policies
Lesson units
Photos, artworks, drawings, films
Letters, newspapers archivaldocuments
Field Notes
Journals
Reflections
Interviewing
Ethics and informed consent
Researcher effect
Power relationships
Questions
Loaded
Structured, semistructured,unstructured
Participant effect
Timeliness
Distractions
Reliability, validity andtrustworthiness
Bias
Surveys
Outline of Data analysis andreporting
How will you analyse the data
Theoryled, dataled
Discourse analysis, semioticanalysis, visual analysis
Categorising, coding,memoing, journalling
How will you report the data
Commonalities
Differences/extremes
Links to key literature andprior research
Research Proposal
Why
A formal step in the researchprocess
To define, refine and focusyour research ideas
Shows links between previousresearch
Best ways to research the problem
Education is a social science