Graduate Catalog 2024-2025

EDD 8890 Foundations of Research

This course orients students to foundations of educational research, including identifying problems for research, purposes of educational research, and quantitative and qualitative approaches to data collection, analysis, and reporting. This course also teaches students how to read, understand, and evaluate the quality of educational research so the appropriate conclusions and implications can be made for understanding and addressing problems of practice.

Registration Name

Foundations of Research

Lecture Hours

3

Lab Hours

0

Credits

3

Offered

Athens and Demorest: Fall

Student Learning Outcomes

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

  1. Identify foundational principles of educational research. 
  2. Examine characteristics of methodological approaches to educational research. 
  3. Interpret applications of educational research as they relate to problems of practice in one’s local school context.