Università Roma Tre

The course aims to give knowledge and skills related to the methodologies and techniques of empirical research in the educational-teaching field in order to find the most appropriate and effective solutions to the problems that educators and trainers encounter in the context in which they operate and for the improvement of the quality of formal educational processes.

Educational goals
•Identify the reference paradigms of research in education (quantitative approaches and qualitative approaches)
• Make the distinction between experimental and non-experimental research
• Recognize the main phases of educational research
• 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

1. LUCISANO, P. & SALERNI, A. (2002). Metodologia della ricerca in educazione e formazione. ROMA: CAROCCI
2. CORBETTA, P. (Seconda Edizione 2015). La ricerca sociale: metodologia e tecniche. I. I paradigmi di riferimento. BOLOGNA: IL MULINO
3. CORBETTA, P. (Seconda Edizione 2015). La ricerca sociale: metodologia e tecniche. III. Le tecniche qualitative. BOLOGNA: IL MULINO