Reverse Research Design: Research Design in the Undergraduate Classroom

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-5
Author(s):  
Phillip M. Ayoub
Keyword(s):  
Political Science ◽  
Research Design ◽  
Design Research ◽  
Science Curriculum ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Research Paper ◽  
Grant Proposal ◽  
Core Component ◽  
Teaching Resources ◽  
Pedagogical Tool

ABSTRACT Teaching research design is a core component of a political science curriculum. In our pedagogy, we often do two things separately: expecting students to (1) read and digest the work of established scholars, and (2) explore their own interests in the form of a research design or research paper. In a reverse research design, I bridge these two components with a pedagogical tool. I use a published book or article relevant to the course and students retrace the published author’s process, placing themselves in the author’s shoes. Rewinding some years, students imagine that they are this author writing a grant proposal to conduct the (now-completed) study. This helps students to work through the steps of research design, putting aside until later the more intimidating hurdle of articulating their own research question and project. This article explains reverse research design and describes the teaching resources and methods for implementation.

The Better Book Approach for Education Research and Development

2020 ◽  
Vol 122 (9) ◽  
pp. 1-32
Author(s):  
James W. Stigler ◽  
Ji Y. Son ◽  
Karen B. Givvin ◽  
Adam B. Blake ◽  
Laura Fries ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Education Research ◽  
Research And Development ◽  
Research Design ◽  
Intervention Program ◽  
Design Research ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Formative Assessments ◽  
Single Class ◽  
Core Concepts ◽  
Online Book

Background/Context Despite advances in the learning sciences, a persistent gap remains between research and practice. Purpose/Objective/Research Question/Focus of Study In this project, we develop and try out a new approach to education research and development in which researchers, designers/ developers, and instructors collaborate to continuously improve an online interactive textbook. Intervention/Program/Practice Using a “learn by doing” strategy, we first created a highly instrumented online textbook for introductory statistics. The design of our online book is based on the practicing-connections hypothesis: Instead of learning individual “bits” of information and then hoping that learners end up with transferable knowledge, we designed a curriculum to engage students in repeated practice of the connections—between core concepts, representations, and the world—that make knowledge transferable. The textbook includes more than 1,200 formative assessments, generating large amounts of data relevant to both the process and outcomes of college students learning of statistics. Using the affordances of technology, we then began working to apply routines and practices from open software development (Git) and improvement science (Toyota Kata) to build an improvement community focused on continuous improvement of the online book. We also are building a technology platform (CourseKata) to publish the book from markdown files stored on GitHub; distribute the book through widely used learning management systems; collect detailed student data and deliver it back to instructors and, in a de-identified form, researchers; and manage experiments that randomly assign different versions of content to different students within a single class, and then assess the effects on students’ learning. Research Design Our research design is a mixed-methods design research and improvement study. We gauge success through measures of process, outcome, and transfer. Conclusions/Recommendations We are at only the beginning of what we see as a lengthy project. We are encouraged, however, by our progress, and invite others—including researchers, designers/developers, and instructors—to join us in our improvement community focused on improving the transferable learning of basic statistical concepts at scale.

Integrating Women's Studies in a Political Science Curriculum

1983 ◽  
Vol 36 ◽  
pp. 13-14
Author(s):  
Leta A. Moniz
Keyword(s):  
Political Science ◽  
Women's Studies ◽  
Curriculum Change ◽  
Science Curriculum ◽  
Feminist Perspective ◽  
Feminist Philosophy ◽  
Women’S Studies ◽  
Orderly Fashion ◽  
The Impact

Integrating Women's Studies with any curriculum, political science or otherwise, is a formidable task. And like most changes in curriculum, the integration of Women's Studies material has not come about in orderly fashion. There are some dimensions to Women's Studies integration, however, that set it apart from other curriculum change.The thrust of Women's Studies vis a vis any discipline is to revise and reinterpret that discipline from a feminist perspective. Feminist philosophy has argued that traditional methodologies, theories, and manifest analyses have contained a patriarchal bias which has excluded the impact of women from the intellectual evolution of humankind. Thus, on the discipline and on the academy itself, the very premise of Women's Studies makes demands which are far-reaching and threatening to establishment doctrine.

Two Types of Interpersonal Listening

2010 ◽  
Vol 112 (11) ◽  
pp. 2743-2762
Author(s):  
Leonard J. Waks
Keyword(s):  
Research Design ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Cognitive Theory ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Presidential Address ◽  
Philosophy Of Education ◽  
Focused Attention ◽  
Education Society ◽  
Background Context ◽  
Objective Research

Background/Context Although the concept of listening had been neglected by philosophers of education, it has received focused attention since 2003, when Sophie Haroutunian-Gordon addressed it in her presidential address to the Philosophy of Education Society. Purpose/Objective/Research Question/Focus of Study Haroutunian-Gordon offered a cognitive theory of listening, according to which an act of listening involves raising questions about both the speaker's utterance and the listener's own beliefs. Research Design This article draws on the methods of philosophical analysis to provide a competing account of listening. This account distinguishes between two types of listening, a cognitive (thinking) type and a noncognitive (empathic feeling) type. Findings/Results By considering a number of familiar classroom incidents, I show that both kinds of listening have important roles in teaching and learning. Conclusions/Recommendations I conclude by questioning whether the empathic type of listening can directly be taught. I conclude that it cannot be, but that teachers can provide three kinds of “helps” indirectly to foster its growth in learners.

Rethinking Comparison

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Mixed Methods ◽  
Political Science ◽  
Research Design ◽  
Comparative Research ◽  
Comparative Methods ◽  
Political Processes ◽  
Qualitative Research Design

Qualitative comparative methods – and specifically controlled qualitative comparisons – are central to the study of politics. They are not the only kind of comparison, though, that can help us better understand political processes and outcomes. Yet there are few guides for how to conduct non-controlled comparative research. This volume brings together chapters from more than a dozen leading methods scholars from across the discipline of political science, including positivist and interpretivist scholars, qualitative methodologists, mixed-methods researchers, ethnographers, historians, and statisticians. Their work revolutionizes qualitative research design by diversifying the repertoire of comparative methods available to students of politics, offering readers clear suggestions for what kinds of comparisons might be possible, why they are useful, and how to execute them. By systematically thinking through how we engage in qualitative comparisons and the kinds of insights those comparisons produce, these collected essays create new possibilities to advance what we know about politics.

scholarly journals Interpersonal Meaning Analysis in the Tale’s Story of Sabai Nan Aluih

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 58-65
Author(s):  
Yenita Uswar ◽  
Nova Andriani
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Data Analysis ◽  
Research Design ◽  
Language Use ◽  
Systemic Functional Linguistics ◽  
Document Analysis ◽  
Research Paper ◽  
Functional Linguistics ◽  
Meaning Analysis ◽  
Descriptive Qualitative

Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) is a study of language which views language as two characteristics, systemic and functional. With using SFL, the researchers try to analyze the tale’s story of Sabai Nan Aluih. The research aim is to identify the interpersonal meaning realized in that story and to reveal the speech function of language use in that story. The research design of this analysis is descriptive qualitative research. The object of this research is the interpersonal meaning analysis of clauses as exchange in the tale of Sabai Nan Aluih. The data of this research is the clauses as exchange in the story of Sabai Nan Aluih. The source of data which is used in this research is the documentation of the data research paper. The researchers use document analysis from the story of Sabai Nan Aluih as collecting data. The data is analyzed by using description method. In the interpersonal analysis, declarative mood dominates almost the story, it is about 91 %. And, the data analysis of speech function is found in the story of Sabai Nan Aluih, statement, question and command, in where statement is domination from the story about 94%. Thus, it is important that the using of interpersonal meaning and the speech function of the story of Sabai Nana Aluih is as information

scholarly journals Effectiveness Of Rosella Tea On Decreasing Blood Pressure In Hypertension Patients In Tulungagung District

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 162-169
Author(s):  
Farida Farida ◽  
Yusuf Abdillah ◽  
Poppy Farasari
Keyword(s):  
Blood Pressure ◽  
Research Design ◽  
Design Research ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Test Statistics ◽  
Average Blood Pressure ◽  
Quota Sampling ◽  
Stage 1 ◽  
Normally Distributed

The research design used pre experimental. The sampling technique uses quota sampling with a sample of 30 respondents. Design research was one group pretest-posttest. The study used a dose of 2 x 3 grams of dried rosella each day for seven (7) days. Test Statistics using Paired T test.The results of the study were obtained before the treatment as many as 26 respondents (86.7%) with the classification of stage 1 hypertension and after treatment to 18 respondents (60%), this was due to filling vacancies in the incidence of prehypertension and normal tension.normality test Kolmogorov-smirnof data is normally distributed. The results of thestatistical Paired T-testtest showed that the value of p systole = 0,000 and dyastole = 0.001 with α = 0.05 where p <α so that Ho was rejected, which means there was a decrease in the average blood pressure after giving rosella tea

scholarly journals METHODS OF CREATING A LANDSCAPE ENVIRONMENT CONSIDERING THE CULTURAL AND EDUCATION ORIENTATION

2021 ◽  
pp. 217-237
Author(s):  
Andriy Karanda
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Research Design ◽  
Design Research ◽  
Landscape Planning ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Inner World ◽  
Design Objects ◽  
Landscape Ecological

The problem of creating a landscape environment considering the cultural and educational orientation in the structure of objects of the landscape and recreational zone of cities is observed. Specialized cultural and cognitive parks of ideological and thematic orientation are grouped by areas: urban planning, landscape-ecological, spatial-compositional, semiotic, typological-methodological and their main characteristics are given. The classification of specialized cultural and cognitive parks and those that ideologically affect the surrounding and inner world of man is given. The main methods used in the formation of specialized cultural and educational parks in the process of landscape-planning organization of the park environment by its phases (pre-design research, design, implementation, maintenance) are determine In each of the phases the main stages of its implementation and methods of scientific research used in it are given. When considering the issue of creating specialized cultural and cognitive parks, the general criteria to be met by the design objects that combine them were identified, a number of methods that form the algorithm for their creation were considered.

scholarly journals JAX, THE ARCHITECTURE: Designing a Chatboat Architecture to Reduce Ajax Fancare’s Logistical Problem and Enhance Fan Experience

Nirmana ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 51-65
Author(s):  
Steven Limandjaja
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Customer Service ◽  
Research Design ◽  
Future Development ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Main Question ◽  
Digital Society ◽  
Live Chat ◽  
Logistical Problem

This paper is the documentation of a graduation internship at Digital Society School (DSS) in which they teamed up with Ajax Fancare to solve their logistical problem and enhance the fan experience. Ajax Fancare is facing a logistical problem in manually answering every fan’s question via calls, emails, social media, or live chat. They believe that chatbot is the solution to this problem. The goal of this project is to research, design, and prototype a chatbot that could tackle the logistical problem and enhance the fan experience. The deliverable is a chatbot prototype and architecture in which Ajax Fancare could build upon for their future customer service chatbot. The main question of the research is answered by the chatbot architecture: Jax the Architecture, a conversational tree of all the possible interactions between a user and the chatbot. The final chatbot architecture answers the research question by mapping together the main elements of the chatbot such as the information fans needed from Ajax Fancare and additional features that create a new and inclusive experience. The prototypes and final chatbot architecture are ready to be tested for further research and serve as a cornerstone for future development of the Ajax Fancare chatbot.

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