20 17 summary of announcement information of Tianjin teacher qualification examination in the second half of the year
Types of educational research Educational research is the abbreviation of educational science research. It is a cognitive activity that takes educational problems as the object, uses scientific methods and follows certain research procedures to collect, sort out and analyze relevant information in order to discover and summarize educational laws.
According to the different dimensions, educational research can be divided into the following four categories:
(a) according to the purpose can be divided into basic research and applied research.
According to the purpose, it can be divided into basic research and applied research. Basic research is characterized by abstraction and generalization, and its purpose is to reveal, describe and explain some phenomena and processes, as well as their active mechanisms and internal laws. The characteristics of applied research are concreteness and particularity. It is to further verify the results of basic research, and to seek probabilistic inevitable conclusions from a large number of cases on a practical problem of concern, with the aim of solving some specific problems or providing direct and useful knowledge.
(2) According to the nature of the research object and the different research and analysis methods, it can be divided into quantitative research and qualitative research.
Quantitative research, also known as quantitative research, refers to the prescriptive scientific research to determine the quantity of things, that is, the process of expressing problems and phenomena in quantity, and then analyzing, investigating and explaining them to obtain meaningful research methods. That is, by solving what is it? And so on, mainly focus on using numbers and scales to describe the things studied. The main methods of quantitative research and design are investigation, comparison and experiment. Qualitative research, also known as qualitative research, is the analysis and research on the qualitative aspects of things. Mainly by solving research problems? Why? Question, then describe what you have learned in language. It mainly includes interviews, observation and case analysis.
(3) According to the specific research methods, it can be divided into experimental research, investigation research, historical research, observation research, interview research, action research and case study.
(d) According to the function of research, it can be divided into descriptive research and intervention research.