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Research Methods & Design EDU 612 3 credits

Research Methods & Design EDU 612 3 credits. Don Burwell, Ph.D. Dennis D. Cartwright, Ph.D. Registration MAT I. EDU 612 1 Research Methods & Design 3 MW 9-12 Cartwright EDU 611 Foundations Instructional Leadership - 3 T Th 9-12 Langan EDU 613 Instruction & Technology - 2

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Research Methods & Design EDU 612 3 credits

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  1. Research Methods & DesignEDU 6123 credits Don Burwell, Ph.D. Dennis D. Cartwright, Ph.D.

  2. Registration MAT I • EDU 612 1 Research Methods & Design • 3 MW 9-12 Cartwright • EDU 611 Foundations Instructional Leadership - 3 T Th 9-12 Langan • EDU 613 Instruction & Technology - 2 • M W 1-3 Burwell

  3. Who Are You? • Name • Where is home? • What would you be doing this summer if you were not taking research? • Teaching assignment • What background/experience do you have in research/statistics? • Interesting facts others may not know

  4. Cards • Card #1 Contact information • Name • Address • E mail • Telephone number

  5. Syllabus • Questions • Text Gall, Gall, & Borg; Johnson; APA • Class Time • Outside of Class

  6. Registration • EDU 612 1 Research Methods & Design • 3 units M W 8:45-12:00 • EDU 504 1 Multicultural Literature for Children and Adolescents 3 units M W 1:00-4:15 • EDU 611 1 Foundations of Instructional Leadership 3 Units T TH 9:00-12:00 • EDU 613 1 Instruction & Technology 2 Units T TH 12:30-2:30

  7. Greeks – Cooperative Arts • Farming • Healing • Teaching

  8. Research – What is it? • “Research is a systematic process of collecting, analyzing, and interpreting information (data) in order to increase our understanding of the phenomenon about which we are interested or concerned” (Leedy & Ormrod, 2005, p.2)

  9. Research (Purpose) • Enhance the Quality of Decisions • Document Results • Distribute Findings

  10. Types of Research • Basic • Applied • Action • Variable -

  11. ACTION RESEARCH • Answering a questions within the researchers setting • Sample and population are often the same • no random selection • Uses techniques of more formal approaches • Less able to attend to extraneous variables • Less “generalizable” • More formative

  12. P-12 Ready Fire Aim Higher Education Ready Ready Ready Criticisms of Education

  13. Variables • Anything that can take on different values • Variables may be held constant • Types • independent • dependent • extraneous

  14. Interaction of Variables • Pool Table • Extraneous Variables

  15. Research Evaluation Criterion • “Not is it good?” • “But is it good for us? • Ellis and Fouts • “No idea, no matter how well researched, is worthwhile outside a context of purpose.”

  16. Validity of a Study Internal Extent to which results can be interpreted accurately External Extent to which the results can be generalized to populations (Wiersma, 2000)

  17. Evaluating Research • Objectivity • Free from bias • Generalizability • Sampling techniques • Replicability • Write up, documentation

  18. Inappropriate Word for this Class Prove

  19. Triangulation • Multiple measures within a study • validity of the study

  20. Replication • Multiple Studies • Validity of the results

  21. What About You? • What questions are you interested on thinking about? • Concept Map ?

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