Doing Good Quality Research
(adopted from: https://www.slideshare.net/wcastropadilla/good-quality-research-26042013)
1. Purposeful
- Needs clarity on WHY the study is conducted
- Has clear, well thought out, specific, focused answerable questions
- Has transparent connection to the context: school, classroom, students, teacher, needs, etc.
- Demonstrates the object is worth studying via the revision of literature and research
2. Methodologically appropriate
- Shows appropriate selection of research methods
- Show methods are suitable for addressing the questions
- Justifies the choice of methods
- Shows awareness of the limitations of methods
3. Technically competent
- Good, clear, research design (writes a theoretical argument for the design of instruments, but instruments must also be well designed and administered)
- The research design is carried out skillfully (all stages must show technical competence, including that of data analytics)
- Technical competence contributes to give validity and reliability to a study.
4. Contributive
- Provide new insight into old issues
- Extends findings of previous research
- Present new ways of dealing with research issues
- Gives further theoretical insights
- Focuses on object from an innovative perspective
- Contributes with practical implications for teachers, policy makers, teacher educators, learners, institutions, that is, has an impact on practice
5. Ethical
- Cares for the participants
6. Self-critical
- Aware of its own biases
- Cares for terminology
- Appropriate selection of methods (techniques and instruments)
- Clean analysis of data
7. Coherent
- Skill at communicating, both in written and in oral presentations
- Presents the appropriate amount of data as to clearly show the picture of the study
- Clear relation among questions, methods, design, answer, conclusions, etc.