Social sciences and humanities
Subject: EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH METHODOLOGY (A.A. 2024/2025)
single-cycle master degrees (5 years) in PRIMARY TEACHER EDUCATION
| Course year | 2 |
|---|---|
| CFU | 6 |
| Teaching units |
Unit Metodologia della ricerca educativa
Experimental pedagogy (lesson)
|
| Exam type | oral |
| Evaluation | final vote |
| Teaching language | Italiano |
Overview
Research Methods in Education
Admission requirements
None
Course contents
Experimental Pedagogy and Research in Education
Knowledge development and construction
Knoledge, Beliefs, and representation
The Method and the Steps of the Research
Variables, Indicators, Index
Planning Educational Research
Designs in Educational experimentation
Sampling
Strategies for Data Collection and Researching
Qualitative Research in Education
Observation
Refclection
Assessment tools
Evaluation and self-evaluation
Needs analysis
School dropout analysis
Teaching methods
Frontal lesson, small group work and project work.
Assessment methods
Written examination (multiple choice questions) and oral examination
Learning outcomes
KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING
The philosophical and theoretical bases and assumptions of educational research. The issues and epistemological underpinnings surrounding several methods approaches.
Major research paradigms and designs.
Types, forms, aims and goals of the research process.
APPLYING KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING
Connection between the fundamentals of research methodology and instruction and teaching in preschools and primary schools.
Choose, build and administer the tools of research in educational settings and schools.
To develop in students the ability to define and formulate research problems and questions and, where appropriate, formulate hypotheses that can be tested.
MAKING JUDGEMENTS
To provide students with the knowledge, skills and understanding necessary to evaluate educational research critically and to carry out rigorous research in the field of education.
Autonomous and critical reflection on their own experience and on their work contexts.
COMMUNICATION SKILLS
Ability to argue and to express the concepts learned with appropriate language.
Learning skills
Develop learning skills necessary to undertake further studies with a high degree of autonomy.
Develop a reflective attitude.
Readings
1. Volumi:
Coggi C. , Ricchiardi P. (2005). Progettare la ricerca empirica in educazione. Roma: Carocci
Pintus A. (2016). La scuola di fronte all’immigrazione. La diversità culturale come sfida di conoscenza. Bari: Mario Adda Editore
2. Articoli disponibili su Dolly (pagina dell'insegnamento) durante lo svolgimento del corso:
Pintus A. (2016). La valutazione della qualità dei servizi rivolti all’educazione e alla cura della prima infanzia: uno studio sull’attendibilità dello strumento valutativo ACEI-IGA. GIORNALE ITALIANO DELLA RICERCA EDUCATIVA, anno IX, n. 16, pp. 117-128
Cecconi L., Pintus A. (2014). Bisogni formativi e problemi della professione nella percezione dei docenti. Un’indagine nelle scuole statali dell’infanzia e del primo ciclo di istruzione di Modena, Parma e Reggio Emilia. CADMO. GIORNALE ITALIANO DI PEDAGOGIA SPERIMENTALE, 22(1), pp. 69-88
Montalbetti K. (2015). Competenza di ricerca e pratica professionaledocente. EDUCATION SCIENCES & SOCIETY, 6(1), pp. 83-109
3. Un articolo a scelta, tra i diversi proposti e scaricabili da una cartella ad hoc disponibile sulla su Dolly ("Testi a scelta", pagina dell'insegnamento) durante lo svolgimento del corso.