Quantitative Research

Pre-requisites: /

Course objectives: Understanding of ontological and epistemological foundation of the quantitative researches in pedagogy. Insight into the characteristics, types, possibilities and extent of application. Supplying students with knowledge necessary to carry out the quantitative research in the field of pedagogy.

Course description: Logical-epistemological foundations of quantitative research. Characteristics of learning in education and quantitative research. Types of quantitative research and their characteristics. Descriptive and causal research. Educational experiment. Learning resources and the nature of the data in empirical-analytical approach. The nature and types of measuring in education. Types and characteristics of indicators. Operational definition and hypothetical construct in research. Classification and measuring in quantitative research. Measuring levels and measuring scales. Quantitative research design. Techniques and instruments in quantitative research (types, particularities, construction, metrical characteristics verification). Types of samples in quantitative research. Statistical data processing. Ranges and limitations of the use of quantitative research in education.

Learning Outcomes: Student should know the logical-epistemological foundations of quantitative research, should understand the nature and characteristics of quantitative research in the field of education and should be capable of designing and realizing quantitative research in this field.

Quantitative Research

Pre-requisites: /

Course objectives: Understanding of ontological and epistemological foundation of the quantitative researches in pedagogy. Insight into the characteristics, types, possibilities and extent of application. Supplying students with knowledge necessary to carry out the quantitative research in the field of pedagogy.

Course description: Logical-epistemological foundations of quantitative research. Characteristics of learning in education and quantitative research. Types of quantitative research and their characteristics. Descriptive and causal research. Educational experiment. Learning resources and the nature of the data in empirical-analytical approach. The nature and types of measuring in education. Types and characteristics of indicators. Operational definition and hypothetical construct in research. Classification and measuring in quantitative research. Measuring levels and measuring scales. Quantitative research design. Techniques and instruments in quantitative research (types, particularities, construction, metrical characteristics verification). Types of samples in quantitative research. Statistical data processing. Ranges and limitations of the use of quantitative research in education.

Learning Outcomes: Student should know the logical-epistemological foundations of quantitative research, should understand the nature and characteristics of quantitative research in the field of education and should be capable of designing and realizing quantitative research in this field.

Literature/Reading:

• − Kocić, LJ. (1981): Pedagoški eksperiment. Beograd: Prosveta.
• − Kožuh, B. i J. Maksimović (2009): Prednosti i ograničenja metaanalize u pedagoškim istraživanjima, Nastava i vaspitanje, Vol. 58, br. 4, 603–616.
• − Matović, N. (2007): Merenje u pedagoškim istraživanjima. Beograd: Institut za pedagogiju i andragogiju Filozofskog fakulteta.
• − Milas, G. (2005): Istraživačke metode u psihologiji i drugim društvenim znanostima. Jastrebarsko: „Naklada Slap“.
• − Pejčić, B. (prir.) (1995): Metodologija empirijskog naučnog istraživanja. Beograd: Defektološki fakultet.
• − Ristić, Ž. (1983): Nacrti istraživanja i proveravanje hipoteza. Beograd: Prosveta.
• − Savićević, D. (1996): Metodologija istraživanja u vaspitanju i obrazovanju. Vranje: Učiteljski fakultet Univerziteta u Nišu.
• − Todorović, D. (2008): Metodologija psiholoških istraživanja. Beograd: Centar za primenjenu psihologiju.