EDS 8824 Analysis and Evaluation of Research

This course is designed to enable students to become critical consumers and evaluators of current educational research. Students will develop skills necessary to identify, understand, and assess the strengths and weaknesses of educational research. Throughout the course, students will locate and evaluate a collection of educational research publications and write a critical, scholarly literature review focused in a specific area of education.

Registration Name

Analysis & Eval of Research

Lecture Hours

3

Lab Hours

0

Credits

3

Offered

TBA

Student Learning Outcomes

Upon the completion of this course, students will be able to:

1. Distinguish different types of quantitative and qualitative research.
2. Describe the purpose and standards for excellence for each section in a research paper
3. Evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of research studies.
4. Determine appropriate inferences from various research findings.
5. Apply main takeaways from research studies to professional practice.