Research Question and Variables

¶ … team-taught student grades. This research question leads to the correlation study approach in order to effectively answer the research question and provide the appropriate relationship that is between the dependent variables used in the research question. In order to effectively answer this research question, there is need to have a large sample size that will bring out the correlation between the involved dependent variables.

The data collection method that can give such sample size is the survey method since it will enable the researcher to survey the results, the behaviors, the outcomes of the group interactions and the possible variables that influence the results (Regents of The University of Michigan, 2017). The data collection instruments or survey tools that would be suitable and will be used in this particular research are the questionnaires, structured interviews and the literature review of the existing literature on the subject.

Data collection tools The questionnaires will be useful in getting the grades and performance levels of the students who are team taught and those who are not team taught. The questionnaires will allow for the generation of the varying returns that will ultimately be used to gauge if there is any satisfactory comparative difference. From the questionnaires, it will be possible to generate meaningful quantitative data. There will also be the use of structured interviews with the participants from both the team taught and those not team taught.

The interviews will be instrumental in capturing the salient intangible reactions that the students may display, their demeanor and the psychological disposition like the belief that the team or the lack of team teaching is of any importance or influence on them. The interviews will also be able to capture other possible intervening factors that may not be directly captured by the questionnaires since the interview will have open ended questions and assume a discursive in nature.

The literature review will also form a significant part of the data collection tools since it will allow the researcher to dig into the already available information on the topic, see the theories generated on the idea of team teaching and conclusions made or other related theses proven right or wrong by previous researchers. This will help guide the research in a structured and professional manner (European Quality Assurance in Vocational Education and Training, 2017).

Section II The research methodology that is best suited for this research question is the survey approach that will give both the qualitative and the quantitative data. The survey method will first identify the survey population which will form the focus of the research, from the survey population, a sample will be drawn to participate in the research through a random selection method. The variables that will be measured herein are the Independent variables, the dependent variables and the independent variables and any possible mediating variable.

In this research question, there are two IVs, the team-teaching, and the non-team teaching, then there are also the DV which is the final grades of the students, this will measured and how the availability of the IVs affect it. There could also be other mediating factors that may play a role in influencing the grades of the students. The types of data that will be experienced in this approach will be ordinal data that will come in the form of statistics.

This will assume the continuous data which will show the varying performances of.