2024
Research Methodologies in Education
Name: Research Methodologies in Education
Code: PED12622M
6 ECTS
Duration: 15 weeks/156 hours
Scientific Area:
Education Sciences
Teaching languages: Portuguese
Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese
Regime de Frequência: Presencial
Sustainable Development Goals
Learning Goals
• To know the epistemological assumptions that differentiate the major routes of approach to the educational
reality, particularly the qualitative and the quantitative.
• To identify characteristics of research in education and recognize its consequences in the research process.
• To recognize the usefulness of complementary and synergetic use of different methodologies for collecting
and analyzing data in certain specific problems and educational contexts.
• To justify the research methodology deemed most appropriate to the problems under study.
• To build research projects methodologically consistent and substantiated.
reality, particularly the qualitative and the quantitative.
• To identify characteristics of research in education and recognize its consequences in the research process.
• To recognize the usefulness of complementary and synergetic use of different methodologies for collecting
and analyzing data in certain specific problems and educational contexts.
• To justify the research methodology deemed most appropriate to the problems under study.
• To build research projects methodologically consistent and substantiated.
Contents
1. Ontological and epistemological foundations of research in education.
2. Research and ethics: the limits of the investigator.
3. Procedures and strategies of educational research and its methodological designs.
4. Methods, techniques and tools for collecting and analyzing data on education: qualitative and quantitative
approach.
5. The research project: characterization and structural elements.
2. Research and ethics: the limits of the investigator.
3. Procedures and strategies of educational research and its methodological designs.
4. Methods, techniques and tools for collecting and analyzing data on education: qualitative and quantitative
approach.
5. The research project: characterization and structural elements.
Teaching Methods
Introduction of fundamental theoretical concepts through presentation of various documents (text, PowerPoint
presentations, websites, etc.). Work activities will also be developed in groups and debate in class.
The final classification result of a combination of practical work, conducted individually throughout the semester
and corresponding a draft research paper and slide presentation and discussion.
Written Project 80%; Oral Presentation 20%.
presentations, websites, etc.). Work activities will also be developed in groups and debate in class.
The final classification result of a combination of practical work, conducted individually throughout the semester
and corresponding a draft research paper and slide presentation and discussion.
Written Project 80%; Oral Presentation 20%.
Teaching Staff
- Paulo Jaime Lampreia Costa [responsible]
Certificações
