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.

Credits

3

Student Learning Outcomes

SCHOOL OF EDUCATION OUTCOMES (See School of Education Syllabus A – IV)

COURSE OUTCOMES:

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

• distinguish different types of quantitative and qualitative research;
• understand the importance of internal and external validity in quantitative research, and credibility and trustworthiness in qualitative research;
• recognize strengths and weaknesses of research studies;
• draw the appropriate inferences from various research findings;
• evaluate research studies that may be used or proposed for use in their own schools.

These course outcomes apply to SPCLO 15 and 19, CCLO 8 and 9, and INTASC Standards 9 and 10.