Università Roma Tre

Course objectives will focus on developing a variety of skills differently
associated with the following contents:
- The main methodological approaches to research in education (types of research
in relation to the quantitative neo-positivist paradigm and the qualitativeinterpretative
paradigm);
- Correlational research and Experimental research (with particular reference to
research on teaching practices);
- Research questions and research design;
- Constructs, quantitative and qualitative variables (dependent and independent)
- Scales (nominal, ordinal, continuous);
- hypotheses formulation and setting in experimental research;
- Data collection (assessment techniques and procedures);
- Tests features as a measurement tool in experimental research (main types of
tests);
- The presentation of research results.