ED5290 - Introduction to Educational Research

Credit points:	06
Year:	2005
Student Contribution Band:	Band 1
Administered by:

Available to Postgraduate Certificate of Education and Master of Education (Rural Studies) students in Canada.

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 Outcomes

• critically review issues relating to key educational research designs and methods;
• describe, reflect on and critically appraise a number of research designs employed in published research journals and other sources;
• develop a position on important ethical and political issues in educational research;
• develop and implement a small research project;
• develop skills in using research techniques chosen from a range of research methods.

Inadmissible Subject Combinations:

ED5190

Availabilities
, Study Period 1
Census Date 31-Mar-2005
Coordinator:	edrjg
Lecturers:	edrjg, Trevor Bond.
Contact hours:	80 hours
Method of Delivery:	Printed materials
Assessment:	(55%); (45%).

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