Group session 1 posters, identifying  issues and questions relating to research methodology:

Three issues:

1. Conformity to standard practice
2. Challenges of reliability
3. Choices of tools

 

 Questions?

1. How do we make research inclusive?
2. Is the nature of the TL issues driving research towards more experimental qualitative methodologies?

 

 

!!! Issues !!!

  • Conceptualisation of project and selection of appropriate methodology
  • Design of good focus question to guide the research
  • Consciousness of and implementation of ethical practices

 

 ???  Questions ???

  • How do we design research projects to ask the
    most relevant questions (i.e. those which arise from identified need) and include the relevant stakeholders ?

  • How can research be reported so the profession can make best use of it?

 

 

ISSUES

1. Insider/outsider position
2. Choice of correct instrument
3. Inductive is often devalued

 

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? Can children's thinking be validly measured?
? Are findings ever transferable?

 

 

 

?  QUESTIONS ?

? ? ? ? ?

* What are the barriers to promoting the fruits of research in outside discourse communities?

** What METHODOLOGY would best TARGET the decision-makers/Administration/Principal?

 

Access to methodology--
 where, when, how will we know?

 

Dealing with implications of ethics--How?