The course is aimed to develop knowledge and competencies related to the experimental research in education. Course contents: in details the course will be focused on the following basic topics: elements of epistemology, scientific methods in education, quantitative researches in education, limits of quantitative research, management of a research in education, validity of experimental researches, research designs, qualitative research and its methods.
Course Content
The course is aimed to develop knowledge and competencies related to the experimental research in education. Course contents: in details the course will be focused on the following basic topics: elements of epistemology, scientific methods in education, quantitative researches in education, limits of quantitative research, management of a research in education, validity of experimental researches, research designs, qualitative research and its methods
L. Trisciuzzi, F. Corchia, Manuale di pedagogia sperimentale, ETS, Pisa, 1995.
S. Mantovani (a cura di), La ricerca sul campo in educazione. I metodi qualitativi, Bruno Mondadori, Milano, 1998
The means of knowledge (personal experience, authority, intuitive methods, logic: deductive and inductive reasoning, science)
Problems, possibilities and limits of fieldwork in education: the object of research in education; qualitative and quantitative research in education; the debate about experimental research.
General principles of experimental research: the steps, the distortions and errors.
Testing tools and assessment scales.
The empirical research in education: empirical investigation levels; the research design; the different types of validity of empirical investigation; pedagogic significance of research correlational.
Qualitative research in education: the interview; the observation; Biographical interview.
The research-action between research and innovation
Course program
The means of knowledge (personal experience, authority, intuitive methods, logic: deductive and inductive reasoning, science)
Problems, possibilities and limits of fieldwork in education: the object of research in education; qualitative and quantitative research in education; the debate about experimental research.
General principles of experimental research: the steps, the distortions and errors.
Testing tools and assessment scales.
The empirical research in education: empirical investigation levels; the research design; the different types of validity of empirical investigation; pedagogic significance of research correlational.
Qualitative research in education: the interview; the observation; Biographical interview.
The research-action between research and innovation