tailieunhanh - Investigation on competency in educational research of lecturers working at educational universities

The paper investigated educational lecturer’s competency of educational research including areas as follow: Identifying research topic; developing research proposal; conducting research; compling and analysing data; and publishing and applying research results into practices. | JOURNAL OF SCIENCE OF HNUE DOI Educational Sci. 2016 Vol. 61 No. 11 pp. 175-186 This paper is available online at http INVESTIGATION ON COMPETENCY IN EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH OF LECTURERS WORKING AT EDUCATIONAL UNIVERSITIES Le Thi Xuan Thu The Center of Educational Research Hung Vuong University Abstract. The paper investigated educational lecturer s competency of educational research including areas as follow Identifying research topic developing research proposal conducting research compling and analysing data and publishing and applying research results into practices. The results showed that competency of educational lecturers on research were low. There were positive correlations between the competency areas. Positive correlations also appeared between the research competency and other factors such as participants educational levels and number years of working. Keywords Competency Competency educational lecturer educational research educational lecturer. 1. Introduction Through literature review competency of scientific research in education for lecturers working at universities of education has been studied by many authors from different countries. Authors have defined competency on conducting educational research through different areas skills demonstrated the role of research capacity impacting on professional development of lecturers described factors influencing on lecturers research capacity stated the significance of developing research capacity for lecturers stated the significance of organizing activities to enhance research capacity for educational lecturers 1 2 4 5 8 . Teferra 2007 stated that university professionals have three main roles teaching conducting research and serving services 7 . Teferra literally explained doing research is as building a power house for knowledge one. The professional development on lecturers s research capacity within universities has been important because it will contribute