Need for Collaboration Between Teachers and Academic Research: Implications for Pedagogy, Knowledge Production and Quality Assurance in Nigerian Schools’ Social Studies Curriculum (Published)
This paper discusses issues of power, privilege, voice and status in educational research and the need for collaborative research between world of Teachers and Academics. Most of the involvement of academics in the teachers’ research movement has been to produce an academic inter programme. Despite the so called revolution in teachers’ research around the world today, where there is a lot of talk about teachers as producers of knowledge, there is still the perception that Academic research is the superior to that of Teachers. Teachers still research in Nigerian schools as an activity conducted by those outside the Nigerian secondary schools classroom for the benefit of the Teachers and Pupils at the primary and Secondary schools in Nigeria. While Teachers feel that academic research is irrelevant to their lives and the pupils, many academics in higher schools in Nigeria dismiss teachers research as trivial, theoretical and inconsequential and hence incapable of addressing the numerous problems facing the education industry in Nigeria. The point here is that both teachers and academics till today in Nigeria still see their enquiries as essentially irrelevant to one another. The political economy of knowledge production and utilization which has accorded a high status and rewards to certain forms of knowledge Production used by teachers sometimes deny the legitimacy of their own knowledge that they have generated through their school based inquiries. Research to most Academics use a specialized language that is outside purview of teachers. Teachers on the other hand feel that academic researchers are largely insensitive to the complex circumstances with which they are faced in their works and frequently feel oppressed and exploited by higher school researchers. The paper therefore discuss the need to correct the present imbalance in knowledge generation and the need to bridge the gap between teacher research and academic research in Social studies using four hypotheses and four questions. Recommendations were made.
Keywords: Pedagogy, Research, Teacher, academic research, knowledge production, quality assurance knowledge utilization
How to write Qualitative research (Published)
Scientific research is aimed at providing a solution(s) to a certain problem based on observable evidence. Generally, there are novel approaches that a research design can be formulated. However, research approaches have been broadly categorized into either qualitative research or quantitative research. Each of these approaches attempts to answer a particular question and may address issues which are related or unrelated. Initially, qualitative research was widely used but in recent past, quantitative research has gained significant attention considering its robustness. Mostly, qualitative research is exploratory and hence generalization cannot be made. The current study is aimed at exploring the tenets of qualitative research and how quality qualitative papers can be produced. It provides a chronological order of qualitative research from abstract to a conclusion and what is required in each step. The study uses cross-examination of kinds of literature that explored a qualitative approach. The results of this study will have both the education as well as policy implication.
Citation: Bakhtyar Ahmed Mohammed (2021) How to write Qualitative research, International Journal of Quantitative and Qualitative Research Methods, Vol.9, No.3, pp.1-6,
Keywords: Research, Scientific Research, abstract, qualitative, title
Research Anxiety among Education Undergraduates in Nigeria (Published)
This survey study investigated research anxiety among education undergraduates in University of Port Harcourt, Rivers State. The population was 1,467 final year education undergraduates while the sample was 500 students drawn through proportionate random sampling technique. One research question was posed and 3 null hypotheses were formulated. Data for analysis were collected through the administration of copies of “Research Anxiety Scale” developed by the researchers on the respondents. The reliability of this scale was established through the test re-test method with an interval of two weeks. The obtained reliability co-efficient for the 4 sub-sections of section B were 0.81; 0.78; 0.76 and 0.81. The research question was answered with mean and standard deviation while the null hypotheses were tested with t-test of one sample mean. The results show that research anxiety is pervasive among education undergraduates. It also shows that instructional, weak computation ability and research supervision factors contribute significantly to research anxiety among education undergraduates. These results were discussed, their counselling implications stated and recommendations were also made. One of the recommendations is that lecturers should be exposed to periodic seminars, workshops and conference to update their knowledge of research.
Keywords: Anxiety, Education, Research, Undergraduates
Structure Equation Modeling Basic Assumptions and Concepts: A Novices Guide (Published)
The modern tools and techniques of research make the decision making easy. The present study focused on structure equation modeling (SEM) technique of research. SEM is one of widely recognized technique in research. This paper outlined basic working of SEM its modeling criteria, assumptions and concepts. A brief idea about second generation structure equation modeling was described in the paper. This study will allow the readers to develop understanding of SEM and its applications in different fields.
Keywords: Assumptions, Concepts, Research, Second Generation, Structure Equation Modeling
Structure Equation Modeling Basic Assumptions and Concepts: A Novices Guide (Published)
The modern tools and techniques of research make the decision making easy. The present study focused on structure equation modeling (SEM) technique of research. SEM is one of widely recognized technique in research. This paper outlined basic working of SEM its modeling criteria, assumptions and concepts. A brief idea about second generation structure equation modeling was described in the paper. This study will allow the readers to develop understanding of SEM and its applications in different fields.
Keywords: Assumptions, Concepts, Research, Second Generation, Structure Equation Modeling