Researches add to the existing literature in two ways. One way is to provide information that has not been previously studied (i.e., addressing a gap in knowledge, formulating new understanding of a topic). The other way is to provide additional results to confirm or disconfirm results of prior studies (replicate past studies with new participants in a new research site). I think my MA research can add to the existing literature of clickers in both the two ways. My research objectives include replicating prior studies about the use of clickers for active learning in higher education to test results with new participants (in this case, student teachers), and exploring the possibilities of using clickers to support knowledge building to further the understanding of clickers.
The research community is a knowledge buildng community. Researchers put their individual thoughts (i.e. research findings) out into open space (i.e., peer-reviewed journals, conferences) to receive agreements, disagreements, etc. Therefore, a researcher's individual thoughts can influence or be influenced by others' thoughts in a collective way. Opportunities are then given to the researchers to collaboratively improve ideas or create new research questions based on the known findings.
Work consulted:
Creswell, J. W. (2012). Chapter 1 in Educational Research: Planning, Conducting and Evaluating Quantitative and Qualitative Research. Pearson Education: Boston, MA.
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