Robert Coe, one of the editors of the trusted educational research companion Research Methods and Methodologies in Education outlines some of the questions you should consider when determining what makes a piece of research good or bad. This is a helpful way for researchers to self-assess their own work as well as other research work.
Perhaps even harder than defining educational research is defining good research. Given the breadth of approaches to doing educational research, it seems unlikely that there will be any universal set of quality criteria. We present here a list of questions that it may be appropriate to ask in evaluating the quality of a piece of research.
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