Tag: Critically review of literature

• February 12, 2016

  Challenges confronting beginning researchers in conducting literature reviews

  Conducting literature review is a complicated, sometimes confusing and laborious process that beginning educational researchers, especially graduate students, often find challenging. However, in the past these challenges were hardly considered, but in more recent times they have been increasingly considered by various faculties and graduate schools due to the expanding needs from growing enrolments. To…

• November 26, 2013

  What is secondary data and where is located?

  Secondary data is usually defined in opposition to primary data. The latter is directly obtained from first-hand sources by mean of questionnaire, observation, focus group or in-depth interviews, while the former refers to data collected by someone other than the user. In other words, data that has already been collected for some other purpose. Yet, such data may…

• December 11, 2012

  Qualitative evaluation of research proposals. Part 1

  Apart from a more quantitative evaluation of the research proposals in the previous post What is the most common weakness in formulating a research proposal in this and in the next post you will find a more qualitative examination divided into the next points: 1. Lack of connection with theory. 2. Writing style 3. Person…

• November 13, 2012

  Critically review of literature in 11 steps

  1. Select a language of publication 2. Select a geographical areFinda(e.g. China, Spain, Italy, Europe…) 3. Publication period (e.g. 2008-2012) 4. Choose literature type (e.g. academic journals) 5. Find keywords (e.g. “labor satisfaction”) 6. Search relevant information (e.g. in Google scholar) 7. Read a realistic number of documents (e.g. 10) 8. Summarize them in your…

• November 9, 2012

  What is a review of literature?

  A critically review of literature (CRL) is a process to account for the most relevant findings as well as theoretical and methodological contributions to a particular topic. It is important to distinguish between a CRL and a preliminary review of literature (PRL). As mentioned in previous posts, PRL just aims to help the researcher to…