Regression Analysis
What is it? Regression is a statistical tool for investigating relationships between variables (Sykes, 1993). It explains the dependent variable that you are interested in as the combination of constant …
Methodologies & Techniques
Single-Case Design Experiment
What is it? Many textbooks said the group comparison. More than two groups, a sample size of more than 30, blah blah… However, if your research participants are tiny, what …
Discourse Analysis: The Tool to Gain Deeper Insights in Classroom-based Dialogs and Language Production in Education
What they have in common is an understanding that social interaction is context-specific. Discourse analysis is a methodological tool to understand intertextuality, or the use of various culture-specific texts in …
Social Network Analysis
What is it? Are people atomic entities or a component of the social relationship? In other words, do individual attributions or social roles/relationships matter? Our ordinary sense may say both …
One or two-way Analysis of Variance
What is it? Last week, we touched one popular method to compare two independent group (means of two populations), namely T-test. That section introduced some principles rather than describing specific …
T-test and experiment
What is it? T-test is popular and basic analysis technique to compare two groups. It is one technique of Group Mean Comparison. Why educational researchers has used it? T-test (and …
Qualitative Interview
What is it? : Qualitative research methodology is considered to be suitable when the researcher either investigates new field of study or intends to theorize prominent issues. Interviewing is the …
Content Analysis
What is it? : Content Analysis (CA) is a systematic, replicable technique for compressing many words of text into fewer content categories based on explicit rules of coding (Stemler, 2000). …
Systematic Review
What is it? : Systematic Review (SR) is the methods involving in “a detailed and comprehensive plan and search strategy derived a priori, with the goal of reducing bias by …
