A hands-on primer on quantitative research methodologies in Technology-Enhanced Learning

Methodology Workshop

Most PhD students in TEL have to either already be or become well acquainted with the basic quantitative methodologies of social and behavioral science in order to help them answer their research questions. As either introduction or refresher, this hands-on workshop will have participants grapple with the dependencies between research questions and research designs, the subsequent analyses, and the inferences that may follow. Students will practice generating empirical questions, understand how these questions directly relate to the nature of the research design, choose appropriate analyses and gain insights as to how all this may lead to sound inference.

After an introduction and a brief presentation outlining general principles, students will work in small groups and will be provided with data sets generated through different designs in TEL research (e.g. experimental, case study, correlational) that are ready to be explored and analyzed with “jamovi”. Groups will be tasked with generating an adequate research question, answering it through appropriate analyses and reporting their results. All groups will give a brief presentation of their findings and an open discussion will conclude this workshop.