Importance of Research in Education

Raymond P. Lintag, RN, PhD

A more systematic, oriented, and intensive way of carrying out a scientific method of study is educational research. It focuses on scientific research and offers solutions to issues in the area of education. Research in education is an undertaking that seeks to establish an organized body of scientific information about the activities that educators are concerned with. The aspect of methodological sciences, in which focus has been placed on understanding, describing, predicting, and regulating human behavior to some extent is educational research. It uses scientific analysis techniques to create knowledge required to enhance instructional preparation, decision-making, teaching and learning, curriculum development, comprehension of students, use of educational media, organization of schools, and administration of education.

Educational research means purifying the education processes. It is the use of scientifically approaches to provide systematic solutions to instructional issues. It encourages educators to work in an appropriate way towards meeting goals and targets. Educational research seeks to find solutions to educational problems by method of scientific philosophy. It mainly performed in a systematic and methodical way to provide solutions to the issues that take place within the field of education and used to understand human behavior, predict, explain, and regulate it.

Educational research has made considerable strides in curriculum development and reform, teaching slow learners, understanding the psychological features of students who are physically disabled and adapting learning approaches to the needs of individual learners. In collecting knowledge about various cultures, norms and values, research in education has made an imperative contribution. Through research, individuals have made major contributions to their knowledge and awareness generation, understanding administrative leadership and actions, group practices, classroom environment, study of engagement, self-concept, level of aspiration, deprivation and prejudice, educational disparity, and society’s deprived, disadvantage and socio-economically backward sections. It is crucial for research activities to promote education in order to achieve its goal and objectives, to restore trust in public schools, to adapt to cultural diversity, to educate for self-identity and individual realization, to restore faith in human, moral and democratic principles, to bring about improvements in racial attitudes, to attain quality and relevance objectives.

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The author is Nurse at Jose B. Lingad Memorial General Hospital