SZRZ6014 RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

REVIEW OF RESEARCH ARTICLES: ORGANIZING READING / INFORMATION

NAME: __________________________________ MATRIC NO: __________________ H/P NO. : ____________________

No. Focus Article 1 Article 2 Article 3

1. Topic/Title of article The Moral Imperative: the
case of the English
education system
2. Reference for this article (APA 6th ed. Style) (for the purpose of including this paper Spangenberg, S. (2014). The
as reference in your report / thesis ‘Reference’ list. Moral Imperative: the case
of the English education
system. Policy Futures in
Educations, Volume 12(5).
3. Issue / Research Problem (in the study) The English school
education system offers
education at primary and
secondary school levels as a
public service. This service
is financed through public
funds and no direct
payments by the users are
required to gain access to
this service.
4. Research Objectives 1. To establish
whether the
primary and
secondary
education system
in the United
Kingdom in its
current

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institutional form
conforms to the
revealed
preferences of
society. The
secondary aim is
to analyse the
foundations,
benefits and costs
of the given
three-tier system.
2. To analyse the
foundations,
benefits and costs
of the given
three-tier system.
5. Research Questions
6. Hypothesis(es) (if applicable)
7. Variables (in the study) 1. The English
school education
system
2. Social preferences
8. Research Design (including your views regarding the appropriateness of the design / this is not sociological
its strengths / its weaknesses ) analysis or norm-based
research
9. Target Population (in the study) the article locates its
analysis in Cough’s (2009)
social and public choice
discourse.
10. Sample (in the study)

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11. Analysis of Data

12. Finding(s) / Result(s)
13. The Research Limitation (s)
14. The Significance of the Study
15. Suggested Future Research 1. To call for a
restriction of
parental school
selection. Only
this approach
would allow fair
equality of
opportunity, the
principle of which
should be given
preference over
the concept of
natural liberty in
conjuction with
Rawlsian and
Sandelian ideas
2. all children are
registered on the
basis of their
school reports in
Year 5 for 11+
exams by their
primary schools
to disallow the
unequal

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distribution of
opportunity. It
can easily be
argued that this is
in the interests of
the public as
society wishes to
educate able
pupils. This can
be further
supported by the
evidence that
able children
progress better in
selective schools
than in
comprehensive
schools.
3. This proposed
system does not
solve the social
advantages that
children of better-
off families or
more highly
educated parents
enjoy, but it
allows for

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increased social
mobility and
eventually is
fundamentally
congruous with
the human rights
of each child. This
is further
supported on
philosophical
grounds: it is the
state’s role to
ensure that the
rights of each
child are
maintained and
that equity in
education is
achieved.
16. What is/are the gap/gaps being addressed in this study / paper?
17. My Reflection / Critical Analysis (Examples:
(i) What do you think of the study?
(ii) What have you learned from the study / paper?)
(iii)What is / are the strength / strengths of this study / paper?
(iv)What is / are the weakness / weaknesses of this study / paper?

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