EDU 610 - Educational Research Methods

Institution:

Thomas University

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Prerequisite: STA250. This course is designed to prepare teachers to conduct Research Projects and develop research skills for assessing effective teaching practices in the classroom. Major topics to be mastered include the Nature and Rules of Educational Research; Interpreting and Summarizing Published Research; Selecting, Refining, and proposing Topics for Research; Designing a Research Project; Procedures and Tools for Gathering Data; Analyzing Research Data and Presenting Findings; and Preparing a Research Report. The course will emphasize procedures and exemplars for conducting Action Research and Evaluating Research (skills to interpret students' test results to explain results to parents and other school personnel). In addition, descriptive, historical, correlational, experimental, quasi-experimental, causal-comparative, and ethnographic research will be studied.

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3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.thomasu.edu

Phone Number:

(800) 538-9784 ext 1000

Regional Accreditation:

Southern Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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