Intervention research: developing the research competencies of secondary school human science students

The study track human sciences aims at developing students# research competencies. These competencies are considered to be an important determinant of students# study success in higher education. This project aims to investigate how to best develop students# research competencies. The effect of three different ways to develop students# research competencies will be assessed in a quasi-experimental pretest-posttest design. Secondary school classes of human science students will participate in one of the following three conditions: (1) a knowledge-based approach mainly focusing on knowledge of research, e.g. based on knowledge of research experiments (e.g., the Milgram experiment); (2) an analytic approach mainly focusing on the consecutive learning of specific research skills, e.g. reading a table or asking an appropriate research question; and (3) an integrated approach in which the students learn research competencies in an inquiry-based way by following the distinct phases of the research cycle. Normal 0 21 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE
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Keywords:humane wetenschappen, leerlingen, onderzoekscompetenties, Interventieonderzoek

Disciplines:Instructional sciences