Abstract: A pretest- posttest quasi-experimental design study was carried out to determine if a one-semester collaborative research proposal development by eleven (11) Fourth Year BSED Biology students of Iloilo State College of Fisheries (ISCOF) Main Campus can improve their research competence in terms of their a. Basic Educational Research Knowledge, b. Ability to Synthesize and Evaluate Journal Articles in Biology Education, and 3. Understanding of their Proposed Research Topics. Wilcoxon Signed Rank Test for Related Samples showed a significant increase in basic educational research knowledge (p= 0.018, α=0.05) and proposed topics understanding (p= 0.007, α=0.05). Their ability to synthesize and evaluate educational researches remained the same (p= 0.068, α=0.05). These results showed that the intervention was somehow successful in delivering improvement to the student-researchers’ competence; however, further examination of raw post-test data for the 3 criteria with an overall competence mean of about 11 out of 20 reveal that it is only to the minimum accepted level. This study did accomplished two important tasks- first is preparing the student to have an in-depth grasp of his completed research proposal before presenting it to his/her chosen adviser and panel evaluators; and second, it provided grounded data on the value of collaborative activities in an undergraduate research proposal development. Continued monitoring and synthesis of additional findings up to the eventual completion of these students’ researches can back up the creation of a Student Research Support Program in ISCOF.
Keywords: educational research, case study, collaborative learning.
Title: Improving Undergraduate Research Competence through a Directed and Collaborative Research Proposal Development- A Case Study
Author: Bryan Yves G. Araneta, Gloria G. Araneta
International Journal of Social Science and Humanities Research
ISSN 2348-3156 (Print), ISSN 2348-3164 (online)
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