ED5190:04
Introduction to Educational Research
| External | HECS Band 1 |
External via World Wide Web nationally and internationally. Semesternbsp;1. This subject requires access to web-based material. Students wishing to study this subject off-campus should ensure that they have access to the World Wide Web. Information on requirements is available from the School of Education.
Available to Postgraduate Certificate, BEd (Professional Development) and Master of Education students.
Staff: Assoc. Professor R Gilbert, Assoc. Professor T Bond.
This subject introduces students to a range of key educational research designs and methods. Students critically review approaches to research in education and related theoretical and methodological issues. They understand key concepts from a range of research designs and approaches, and develop skills in related research techniques of data gathering and analysis. Ethical issues, critically reflexive perspectives and the politics of research are also considered. Students will develop and implement a small research project as a guide to thesis design.
Learning Objectives:
- critically review issues relating to key educational research designs and methods;
- develop skills in using research techniques chosen from a range of research methods;
- develop a position on important ethical and political issues in educational research;
- develop and implement a small research project.
Assessment by on-line presentations (30%); written paper (30%); data analysis (40%).