Impact of Online Journal Club on Educational Research Literacy: Towards New Model, Measurement, and Practice

• Project/Area Number: 22K13755
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Review Section: Basic Section 09070:Educational technology-related
• Research Institution: Toyohashi University of Technology
• Principal Investigator: Lin Jingjing 豊橋技術科学大学, IT活用教育センター, 助教 (40900147)
• Project Period (FY): 2022-04-01 – 2025-03-31
• Project Status: Granted (Fiscal Year 2022)
• Budget Amount: ¥4,680,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,080,000); Fiscal Year 2024: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000); Fiscal Year 2023: ¥1,560,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥360,000); Fiscal Year 2022: ¥2,470,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥570,000)
• Keywords: research literacy / eLearning / online journal club / researcher development / education science

Outline of Research at the Start

Researcher development, as an emergent discipline and a research field, is very much underexplored in higher education. So far establishing and testing an online intervention program that aims to improve research literacy of young researchers on the global scale, was never attempted. This research adopts the exploratory sequential mixed methods research design to investigate the practice of applying online journal club as a signature pedagogy, and its effectiveness on improving educational research literacy of researchers and students.