Challenges Teachers Face in Conducting Research: A Basis for Enhancement Training and Research Output
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Conducting educational research has emerged as one of the most difficult tasks for the majority of teachers, particularly, since they have to put in more effort. This research looked into questions like these: a. What is educational research to the teachers? b. What are the challenges teachers face in conducting research? c. How do research help in the learning and development of the current issues? and d. What possible recommendation the participants can give as part of the solutions to the challenges they have encountered in conducting any research? The nature of the research being conducted is descriptive. Information was gathered from the teacher participants and underwent qualitative analysis. The study used oneon-one face-to-face interview and focused group discussion. The study's findings showed that all of the participants have difficulties in conducting research which resulted to zero output in the district. It also highlighted the challenges teachers faced in conducting research, such as the absence of time, lack of indepth knowledge, experience anxiety when writing and carrying out the research, and view research as a heavy work for them. Moreover, participants find it also difficult to choose an issue to be studied. One interesting finding is that almost every one of the participants have participated at least in any LAC sessions as a component of their education and growth that gave them the idea to develop their study. The researchers of this study have therefore created an action plan to somehow address the issue that teachers faced in conducting research.
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