Educational Research Questions and Study Design
Educational Research Questions and Study Design
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DOI：
10.1176/appi.ap.33.3.261
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发表时间：
2009-05-01
影响因子：
2.5
通讯作者：
Roberts, Laura Weiss
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作者：
Horn, Catherine;Snyder, Blanca Plazas;Roberts, Laura Weiss
教育研究是对感兴趣的研究问题的系统探究。这种研究与其他类型的严谨探究的一般区别是，最典型的是，工作的中心问题。尽管这个领域很广，为在一个保护伞下对各种各样的问题进行严格分析留下了很大的空间，但最终所有这些研究都带有一个有益于教育的假设。就医学教育而言，教育研究具有最终使患者受益的潜力。教育研究设计的第一步是确定设计的充分性，以回答研究问题。本专栏回顾了几个主要的定量和定性教育研究设计及其应用。此前的一篇社论(1)强调，作者有责任提供相对全面的研究设计描述，以便对研究结果的有效性进行批判性评估和评估。我们的目标之一是教育读者和未来的研究者关于教育研究设计的范围，他们的适用性，优势和劣势。
Educational research is the systematic inquiry into a research question of interest. What generally differentiates such research from other types of rigorous inquiry is, most typically, the problem on which the work is centered. Although the field is broad, leaving much room for rigorous analysis of a wide variety of questions under one umbrella, ultimately all such studies carry with them an assumption of benefiting education. In the case of medical education, educational research has the potential to ultimately benefit patients.One of the first steps in educational research design is to determine the adequacy of the design for answering the research question. This column reviews several of the main quantitative and qualitative educational research designs and their utility. It follows from an earlier editorial (1) that emphasized the responsibility of authors to provide a relatively comprehensive description of the study design to enable critical appraisal and assessment of the validity of the findings. One of our goals is to educate the reader and prospective researcher about the range of educational research designs, their applicability, and strengths and weaknesses.