- What is the significance of doing educational research?
- What areas is educational research contributing to?
- Who will benefit from doing educational research?
- How does educational research improve education and learning?
Note that the public does not have a high regard for educational research in general and by association, some educational researchers. Therefore, another important question as to why this is so. Perhaps the solution lies in having educational research understandable and accessible. Is there a way to develop a shared understanding amongst educational communities? How can this contribute to educational reform by means of modifying educational policies and practices?
Educational researchers, in order to find the relevance of the questions and concerns above, should rethink their roles, methods, texts, and contexts. Particularly, they should reconsider the target audiences that will benefit from the educational research they are doing and how they relate to these audiences. If we are seeking to improve the relationship between educational research, how policies are created in aid of education and how practice is achieved in education, an approach will need to be created that can address technical questions relating to education.
An educational research study will need to address the following issues in order to prove its validity:
The presence or absence of a control group
The random assignment of control and experimental groups
The sample size
The statistical significance of the results
In cases of a matched study, whether the groups share extreme similarity with one another
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