Formative Research

Formative Research

1. It is a research model in which investigations pretend to improve the teaching and learning processes and to create strategies to develop a curriculum. Also, this type research aims to use the knowledge instead of creating a new one.

   • Dimensions
     • Dimensions are the aspects that the develpment of a formative research could improve or reinforced. Principaly in these 3 aspects:
       • Didactic Techniques
         • Due to the characteristics of research and the elements used on it, an autonomous and considerable learning could be developed in the researchers.
       • Professor's Profile
         • Under formative research as a teaching strategy, the teacher must recognize the student's potential and stimulate their autonomous work.
       • Purpose of the Formative Research
         • It aims to contribute teaching by encouraging the students to develop the abilities, attitudes and competences when doing an academic or professional activity.
   • Characteristics of a Formative Research
     • 1) It pretends to appropiate the knowledge that already exist. 2) It intends to develop the teaching an learning processes of the curriculum. 3) It is part of a formative academic program. 4) It follows the objectives of the curriculum and the academic program. 5) The objective belongs to an already stablished field. 6) The techniques and instruments of research have a didactic purpose. 7) It is performed by a professor. 8) The researchers are not experts in the field, but they are learners.
   • Insertion of Formative Research in Academic Programs
     • Some formative research techniques and strategies can assist in the gradual incorporation of an inevitable culture into the students' curriculum. Some of these are:
       • Theoretical essays with an investigative scheme.
       • Journal's club.
       • Research seminars and pre-seminars.
       • PBL method.
       • Design of preliminary research projects on specific topics of a subject.
       • The inclusion of students to professorial research projects.
   • The Incorporation of Research Monograph
     • Research monograph is a formative research project that integrates all the elements of research process to develop a wide comprehension about an specific or limited topic. Also, it is an excellent help to develop formative research by contributing the following aspects:
       • Autonomous participation in Meaningful of the academic contents.
       • Development of complex cognitive processes.
       • Acquisition of research competences.

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