RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
NAMES : MOLOPA PHILLEMON
SURNAME : MATAGA
INITIAL : MP
STUDENT NUMBER : 32720068
COURSE CODE : MED 90060
MODULE : EDF 5901
COURSE CODE : 072 868 8944 / 079 911 1002 / 073 539 5349
ASSIGNMENT 01
Question 1
1.1. Define the following concepts and give at least 2 examples in each case.
a. Research Methodology: the study of research methods that used to collect and analyses
data. e.g Qualitative and Quantitative method.
b. Questionnaires:. A writen set of questions or statements that are used to access
attitudes, opinions beliefs and biographical information. e.g structured questionnaire
and unstructured questionnaire.
c. Sampling Strategies:. The processes of identifying the population and then determining
how best to select a sample from it. e.g simple random sampling and systematic
sampling.
d. Data analyses methods:. The process for collecting, modelling and analyzing data using
various statistical and logical methods e.g descriptive analysis and diagnostic analysis
e. Reference technologies:. Are techniques that giving relevant accurate and complete
information indicating and acknowledge which sources you used for writing an
assignment. E.g academic journal articles newspaper e.t.c
QUESTION 2
2.1. Constructivism as a Theory for Teaching and Learning.
Constructivism is the theory that says learners construct knowledge rather than just passively
take in information for instance as people experience the world and reflect upon those
experiences, they bring their own representation and incorporate new information into their
pre-existing knowledge.
2.2. Uygotsky’s Theory of Social Constructivism
Social constructivism is the view that learning occurs through social interaction and the help of
others, often in a group. The theory & social constructivism was developed by soviet
psychologist Lev Uygotsky in the year 1896 – 1934. Social constructivism is based on the idea
that learners construct new knowledge.
2.3. Piaget’s cognitive constructivism theory is theory that Piaget rejected the idea that learning
was the passive ever circulation of given knowledge. The proposed that learning is a dynamic
process compressing successive stages of adaption to relate during which learners actively
construct knowledge by creating and testing their own theories of the world
2.4. Dewey’s theory & learning, it is whereby all learning occurs within a social environment.
Also indicate knowledge is a socially constructed based on our experiences. He also indicated
that educational process has two sides. One is psychological and the other is sociological.
2.5 John Rowls’s theory of social justice is theory that aims to constitute a system to ensure the
fair distribution & primary social goods. It’s the system that requires the establishment of
institution to distribute primary social goods according to the principles & justice and fairness.
2.6. Behaviourism Learning Theory
Behaviourism Learning Theory is popular concept that focuses on how students learn. It focuses
on the idea that all behaviours are learned through interaction with the environment.
2.7. Humanism Learning Theory is a theory whereby a teacher would allow a students to learn
by their own free will and desire for knowledge. It is whereby humanists believe that the desire
to learns innate and aimed towards the ultimate goal of self-actualization, where the
motivation must come from the learner.
2.8. Connectivism Learning Theory
Connectivism is a relatively new learning theory that suggests students should combine
thoughts, theories, and general information in a useful manner it accepts that technology is a
major part & the learning process and that our constant connectedness gives us opportunities
to make choice about our learning
2.9. Transformative Learning theory is a learning relating to how people make sense & their life
experiences. It is an attention constructivism where it is stated every learners construct their
own meaning based on their intention of knowledge with previous knowledge.
2.10. Experiential Learning Theory
Experiential Learning is the idea that experiences are generated though our ongoing
interactions and engagement with world around us and learning is an inventible product of
experience. This theory and learning is different from cognitive and behavioural learning
theories as it takes a more approach.
QUESTION 3
QUALITATIVE RESEARCH QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH
it is concerned with subjective phenomena It is numeric and objectives seeking to
that can’t be numerically measured like how answer questions like when or where
different people experience grief
It deals with needs and meanings It deals with numbers and statistics
Qualitative studies are more subjective in It seeks to understand the casual or
their results and interpretation than correlational relationship between variables
quantitative. through testing hypothesis
It cannot be statistically analyzed as it It uses statistical and logical observations to
involves a round open ended feedback get a conclusion
It relies on verbal and written data It relies on numerical data
It relies on data collected from interviews It collects information from larger sample
observations size of users in numeric form and details
analyzed in numeric form
