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How authors did it – a methodological analysis of recent engineering education research papers in the European Journal of Engineering Education
- Source :
- Malmi, L, Adawi, T, Curmi, R, de Graaff, E, Duffy, G, Kautz, C, Kinnunen, P & Williams, B 2018, ' How authors did it – a methodological analysis of recent engineering education research papers in the European Journal of Engineering Education ', European Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 43, no. 2, pp. 171-189 . https://doi.org/10.1080/03043797.2016.1202905
- Publication Year :
- 2018
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Abstract
- We investigated research processes applied in recent publications in the European Journal of Engineering Education (EJEE), exploring how papers link to theoretical work and how research processes have been designed and reported. We analysed all 155 papers published in EJEE in 2009, 2010 and 2013, classifying the papers using a taxonomy of research processes in engineering education research (EER) (Malmi et al. 2012). The majority of the papers presented either empirical work (59%) or were case reports (27%). Our main findings are as follows: (1) EJEE papers build moderately on a wide selection of theoretical work; (2) a great majority of papers have a clear research strategy, but data analysis methods are mostly simple descriptive statistics or simple/undocumented qualitative research methods; and (3) there are significant shortcomings in reporting research questions, methodology and limitations of studies. Our findings are consistent with and extend analyses of EER papers in other publishing venues; they help to build a clearer picture of the research currently published in EJEE and allow us to make recommendations for consideration by the editorial team of the journal. Our employed procedure also provides a framework that can be applied to monitor future global evolution of this and other EER journals.
- Subjects :
- ta113
Engineering education research
Descriptive statistics
Management science
020209 energy
Multimethodology
05 social sciences
General Engineering
050301 education
Library science
02 engineering and technology
Grounded theory
Education
Educational research
taxonomy
research methods
Engineering education
Taxonomy (general)
0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
Sociology
theory
0503 education
Qualitative research
Subjects
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- Language :
- English
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Malmi, L, Adawi, T, Curmi, R, de Graaff, E, Duffy, G, Kautz, C, Kinnunen, P & Williams, B 2018, ' How authors did it – a methodological analysis of recent engineering education research papers in the European Journal of Engineering Education ', European Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 43, no. 2, pp. 171-189 . https://doi.org/10.1080/03043797.2016.1202905
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....fbf62e1eead2952d35874b712cf3f0c9