RSE4801 Assignment 3 (DETAILED ANSWERS) 2024 - DISTINCTION GUARANTEED

RSE4801 Assignment 3 (DETAILED ANSWERS) 2024 - DISTINCTION GUARANTEED - DISTINCTION GUARANTEED - DISTINCTION GUARANTEED Answers, guidelines, workings and references ...... Question 1 You intend to use a survey research project to establish the opinions of learners about school discipline. Include the following in your essay: • A brief account of the issue of discipline in schools, including your own context and experiences. (200 words) • An explanation of survey research including a discussion of information (data) generation and sampling. (700 words) • Formulation of a problem statement (100 words) • A Likert scale with five questions and five possible answers. The questions need to establish learner perceptions of discipline in the school. (100 words) • Critically reflect on the insights you hope to gain in this project, and on the value of survey research. (200 words) Question 2 You plan an action research project which aims at improving your questioning techniques in the classroom. Provide your planning based on the following aspects: • A brief account of the role of questioning in pedagogy. (200 words) • An explanation of action research including the action research process. (700 words) • An explanation of how you would use action research to reflect on and improve your questioning techniques. (500 words) • A reflection on the value of this research type (action research) for your professional development as an educator. (100 words) Question 3 You want to use (critical) discourse analysis (CDA) to investigate whether and how school textbooks promote indigenous knowledges. Explain what you plan to do on the basis of the following: • A brief discussion of the issue of indigenous knowledges in education in South Africa. (100 words) • A problem statement. (100 words) • A description and justification of the two textbooks you will investigate. (100 words) • A detailed discussion of (critical) discourse analysis in which you address the following: o Basic assumptions and key authors. (900 words) o Research methods. (300 words) • A reflection on the value of CDA for this kind of research. (100) Question 4 Describe the central features of quasi-experimental research and discuss in detail an example of such a research project you have constructed yourself. Reflect on the value of this research type.