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ED5290:06

Introduction to Educational Research

External

HECS Band 1

80 hours flexible delivery. External via World Wide Web internationally. Semester 1 (March to June). This subject requires access to Web-based materials therefore students 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 of Education and Master of Education (Rural Studies) students in Canada.

Staff:

Assoc. Professor R Gilbert, Assoc. Professor T Bond (JCU);

Assoc. Professor M Grant (MUC).

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. Students will achieve an understanding of key concepts from a range of research designs and approaches, 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 having first completed a task requiring them to select, describe and analyse and critique a number of research designs (minimum of four) illustrated in journal articles, theses and other research reports.

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;

describe, reflect on and critically appraise a number of research designs employed in published research journals and other sources;

develop and implement a small research project.

Assessment by three written papers (35%); critical review (20%); research project (45%).