Includes bibliographical references.

The role of research in teaching and in ensuring learning outcomes: Teaching as a research-based profession: Background of the dichotomy between teaching and research -- Evidence-based practice -- Research in teaching -- Ensuring learning outcomes through research: Outcomes-based education in context -- The outcomes of education -- The role of research in ensuring learning outcomes -- Principles involved in outcome-based assessment -- The teacher as researcher: The twenty-first century research paradigm -- The identification of a research problem -- Sources of problems -- Criteria in the selection of a research problem -- Research methods and techniques in ensuring teaching and learning outcomes: Research as application of scientific inquiry -- Types of research according to objective -- Classification of research by method: Quantitative approach: Descriptive method -- Survey method -- Developmental method -- Correlational method -- Causal-comparative method -- Experimental method -- Qualitative approach: Case study -- Ethnographic research -- Mixed method approach -- The use of statistics in research-based teaching and learning: General concepts on statistics and learning inquiry -- Conceptualization, operationalization and measurement -- Indexes, scales, typologies -- Research and research-based learning -- Methods and statistical analysis -- The elements of the research proposal: The initial process of research -- The first chapter of the research proposal -- Review of related literature and studies -- Methods and procedures.