(objectives)
•IDENTIFY THE REFERENCE PARADIGMS OF RESEARCH IN EDUCATION (POSITIVISTIC / QUANTITATIVE APPROACHES AND INTERPRETATIVE / QUALITATIVE APPROACHES); •RECOGNIZE THE MAIN PHASES OF EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH; •MAKE THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN EXPERIMENTAL AND NON-EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH AND BETWEEN QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; •BE FAMILIAR WITH THE MAIN THEORIES OF MEASUREMENT IN THE EDUCATIONAL FIELD; •GATHER, PROCESS AND REPRESENT DATA; •CONSTRUCT AND USE CHECKLISTS, QUESTIONNAIRES, INTERVIEWS, STRUCTURED AND SEMI-STRUCTURED TESTS, SYSTEMATIC GRIDS OF OBSERVATION; •IDENTIFY THE CHARACTERISTICS OF THE MOST IMPORTANT STATISTICAL SAMPLES; •SIMULATE SIMPLE PATHS OF INVESTIGATION; •ANALYZE THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH AND TEACHING PRACTICE.
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