Strategies for Educational Inquiry


Y520, Section 6342

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Welcome to the home page for Y520, Section 6342, Strategies for Educational Inquiry, an introductory graduate course in research methods.

Click on the word "syllabus" to see the syllabus. The links below will lead you to articles for critiquing, readings, lecture notes, overhead slides, article critique forms, questions for articles, links to other web sites, and other materials that you may find useful.

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Week 1: Introduction to Educational Research - January 17

Week 2: Developing a Research Plan - January 18

Week 3: Measurement & Data Collection - January 31

Week 4: Sampling & Threats to Internal & External Validity - February 1

Week 5: Experimental & Quasi-Experimental Designs - February 14

Week 6: Additional Designs & Qualitative Approaches - February 15

Week 7: Historical, Content Analysis, Mixed Methods - February 28

Week 8: Descriptive Statistics - February 29

Week 9: Inferential Statistics - March 27

Week 10: Inferential Statistics - March 28

Week 11: Qualitative Data Analysis - April 17

Week 12: Practice Quiz/Test-like events - April 18

Week 13: Evaluating Research - May 1

Week 14: Presentations of Research - May 2