Research Methodology
The research that I am proposing will be quantitative because in
this research I have decided to collect information of lecturer competence in
relation to student academic performance. There are 5 factors that contribute
to the competences of the lecturers such as lecturer teaching method, lecturer
experience, lecturer subject matter expertise, lecturer qualification and
lecturer attitudes. I would like to carry out the quantitative research because
I want to investigate the relationship between the competencies of the
lecturers in relation to student academic performances.
More than that, I am decided to use this
research approach because it is more reliable and objective. The information to
be collected is more objective which means it is more focussed to investigate
the relationship between the lecturer’s competence and the student academic
performances. Furthermore, I find it is easier for me to use the quantitative
research because I can use statistics to generalise a finding. There is a lot
of previous research that has been carried out by previous researcher regarding
to this topic. So it is easier for me to retrieve a more reliable and valid
information to conduct my research.
In order to have a solid research
proposal I need to have a good research approach, so by choosing quantitative
research it often reduces and restructures a complex problem to a limited
number of variables. For example, with regard to my research I have listed out
2 types of variables which are lecturer competences and student academic
performances. Throughout this research I will looks at relationships between
variables and can establish cause and effect in highly controlled circumstances.
There are five relationship that to be use in this research. There are:
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To what degree does lecturer’s competence
affect students’ academic performance?
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Is there any significant relationship between
the lecturers’ teaching skills and student academic performance?
·
Is there any relationship between the
lecturers’ experience and students’ academic performance?
·
Is there any relationship between the lecturers’
subject matter expertise and students’ academic performance?
·
Is there any relationship between the
lecturers’ qualification and students’ academic performance?
·
Is there any relationship between the
lecturers’ attitude and students’ academic performance?
In addition, by conducting quantitative
research it will give me a chance to tests .theories or hypotheses. With regard
to my research, the hypotheses that I would like to test is “There is a
significant effect between lecturers’ competences in relation to student
academic performances”. Finally, by having quantitative research approach it assumes
sample is representative of the population. The population to be used for this research survey was aimed at 150
final semester students of Faculty of Administrative and Policy Studies. Using
simple random sampling technique, the questionnaires are to be distributing to
150 final semester students.
The research studies are to be conducted
based on the descriptive survey and correlational design. A survey design is to
be chosen to ensure collection of information which precisely describes the
nature prevailing condition at specific point in time.
The population to be used for this
research survey was aimed at 150 final semester students of Faculty of Administrative
and Policy Studies. Using simple random sampling technique, the questionnaires
are to be distributing to 150 final semester students.
Primary data were to be gathered through
two instruments: namely the structure questionnaire and student’s statement of
academic result of all completed respective semester modules. The research instrument collect data on student’s perceptions
regarding lecturer’s subject knowledge, lecturer attitudes, teaching skills,
lecturer experience, lecturer subject matter expertise and lecturer’s
qualification. The students will express their levels of agreement based on
questionnaire anchored on the five Likert scale from strongly, disagree and
strongly agree.
The results of the survey are to be
analyse using descriptive statistics and correlational techniques. The data
that gather processed and analyse using SPSS version 21 statistical package for
windows. Before conducting the correlational analysis, exploratory factor
analysis, the Cronbach’s alpha and KMO tests were computed to determine scale
reliability and adequacy of the sampling size respectively.
