SRINIVAS UNIVERSITY
COLLEGE OF EDUCATION
PH.D PROGRAMME
SYLLABUS OF COURSE WORK
A. COURSE WORK PATTERN
[Link]. Subject Code Subjects Credits Internal External Total
marks marks marks
1. PHDED01 Qualitative and 4 50 50 100
Quantitative research
methods in Education
2. PHDED02 Educational Psychology 4 50 50 100
3. PHDED03 Research & Publication 2 - 50 50
Ethics
4. PHDED04 Action Research in 4 100 - 100
Education
5. PHDED05 Review of literature on 2 50 - 50
the research topic
selected
Total 16 200 200 400
Minimum criteria to pass: 50% marks per subject in both internal & external.
B. COURSE WORK SYLLABUS
PHDED01: Qualitative and Quantitative research methods in Education 100 marks
Internal marks: 50 University Examination marks: 50
Unit 1: Educational research- Meaning, characteristics, scope and importance
Unit 2: Educational research problems, statements, variables and hypotheses
Unit 3: Types of Educational research: Historic method, Descriptive Method (Surveys) &
Experimental method.
Unit 4: Techniques and tools of research
Unit 5: Statistical data and Measurement scales
References:
• Educational Research – Introduction by Aggarwal J.C
• Fundamentals of Educational Research by Sharma. R.A
• Understanding Educational research by Willium. J Meyer
• Statistics in Psychology and Education by Henry E. Garrett
PHDED02: Educational Psychology 100 marks
Internal marks: 50 University Examination marks: 50
Unit 1: Teaching in the Real world: Development of Cognition, personal, social and emotional
development
Unit 2: Behaviourism and Social cognitive theories: Classical and operant conditioning, Modeling
theory, Piaget, Bruner and Vygotsky`s theories of learning.
Unit 3: Cognitive processes: Information Processing, Constructivism, Problem solving, Transfer of
learning and strategic learner
Unit 4: Teachers and Learners: Learners differences, inclusive education, Gender sensitization
Unit 5: Guidance and Counselling in Education.
References:
• Educational Psychology by Paul Eggen & Don Kauchak
• Educational Psychology by S.K Mangal
• Psychology of Learning And Instruction by N.K. Arjunan
• Educational Psychology by Aggarwal J.C
PHDED03: Research & Publication Ethics 50 marks
Unit 1: Philosophy and ethics
Unit 2: Scientific Conduct
Unit 3: Publication Ethics
Unit 4: Open Access Publishing
Unit 5: Database and Research Metrics
PHDED04: Action research in Education 100 marks
Internal marks: 100 (Action research topics should be related to the research topic will be chosen
by the candidate)
PHDED05: Review of literature on the search topic selected 50 marks
Internal marks: 50
Identification of the research topic with minimum 10 book references, 50 research article references
& 20 website references. Publication of the article based on the references made with presentation
& Bibliography.
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