Description:
Alternative approaches to educational research: quantitative, interpretive, and customized. Theoretical assumptions, sources of questions, data collection and analysis, and rhetoric.
Description:
Alternative approaches to educational research: quantitative, interpretive, and customized. Theoretical assumptions, sources of questions, data collection and analysis, and rhetoric.
Semester:
Fall of every year, Spring of every year
Credits:
Total Credits: 3 Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours: 3
Description:
Multiple sources of inquiry. Critical assessment of common assumptions about research. Relationship between data and theory. Objectivity, validity, and causal inference across research traditions. Research ethics. Relationship among researcher, researched, and audience. Question formation.