Methodological Capacity within the Field of "Educational Technology" Research: An Initial Investigation

Autor/inn/en	Bulfin, Scott; Henderson, Michael; Johnson, Nicola F.; Selwyn, Neil
Titel	Methodological Capacity within the Field of "Educational Technology" Research: An Initial Investigation
Quelle	In: British Journal of Educational Technology, 45 (2014) 3, S.403-414 (12 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0007-1013
DOI	10.1111/bjet.12145
Schlagwörter	Educational Technology; Surveys; Data Collection; Data Analysis; Familiarity; Expertise; Capacity Building; Educational Research; Research Methodology + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Unterrichtsmedien; Survey; Umfrage; Befragung; Data capture; Datensammlung; Auswertung; Expert appraisal; Bildungsforschung; Pädagogische Forschung; Research method; Forschungsmethode
Abstract	The academic study of educational technology is often characterised by critics as methodologically limited. In order to test this assumption, the present paper reports on data collected from a survey of 462 "research active" academic researchers working in the broad areas of educational technology and educational media. The paper explores their familiarity and expertise with various methods of data collection and analysis. Data from the survey highlight a preference for relatively basic forms of descriptive research, coupled with a lack of capacity in advanced quantitative data collection and analysis. The paper concludes with some directions for "methodological capacity building" to broaden the use of methods in educational technology research. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10