Week 1

During the first meeting, our lecturer, Dr Teoh had discussed on the course information and we had informed on what are we going to go through throughout the semester for Research Methodology course. It was a very good starting as the students will be clear of what should they do in performing the course.

Next, we had gone through the content of the syllabus that we need to learnt on that particular week. Below are some of important notes that I managed to jot down during the discussion.

All of the content from the discussion is really helpful for me or I can say us as a student in doing our research proposal soon. Mostly on writing the best research question. If I have not gone through the class, I may not know that there are four best characteristics in writing a research question which are
i)feasible

ii)significant

iii)clear

iv)ethical

The research question must also be researchable ,measurable and answerable and can be observed with empirical references guided by experience or observation.

By the end of this week maybe I can come out with my research proposal and can discuss with lecturer

Why doing Scientific Research?

Of course we must have problem first that we want so solve  or we want to make improvement from some issues .From my learning in class i know that Scientific Research is another way of obtaining information. Then we must know how the process and do systematically , organize and can prove our finding, so other scholar can replicate our research. 

What else did I get from the first meeting?

Other than what I had discussed and reflected above, Dr Teoh had also introduce to us a very good reference port named Medeley that we can use in finding our reference in doing research mostly in literature review part. 

Our Text Book

Dr Teoh ask to download e book "How to Design and Evaluate Research in Education (eight edition)" .

Reference

Fraenkel, J.R. & Wallen, N.E. (2012) How to Design and Evaluate Research Education. New York: McGraw Hill Inc.


My Expectation

From this first class I have the basic idea what is Research Methodology and how important this course that I can use it to make a good proposal in my project/ thesis. I hope my i can continue my research in my Phd. I read some of the literature review and i think I want to do research about "quality of teaching in mathematics on student achievement (form 4) in Selangor (Zon Tengah)" because in Malaysia there are still lower achievement especially in this subject base on TIMMS and PISA result . I hope next class we will discuss more about how to make a good proposal.

Reference

Robiah Sidin (2000). Inovasi kaedah pengajaran: Pengalaman di Universiti

Kebangsaan Malaysia. Prosiding National Conference on Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, Oktober 9- 10, Universiti Utara Malaysia

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