Syllabus possibilities

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Here are some of the possibilities that we can cover this year in TEP 261:

  • Research design
    • Case Studies (Hakin, Research Design, Ch 6) This gives a good overview of different forms of case studies.
    • The nature of causation: Correlation and causality (Babbie, Ch. 3; Crano & Brewer, ch. 8; Fraenkel & Wallen, ch. 16)
    • Conceptualization and measurement (Babbie, Ch. 5)
      • Designing data measuring tools; e.g. how do we measure that a person knows/understands something?
    • Levels of measurement: Variation, multiple indicators, avoiding biased questions, etc. (Babbie, Ch. 6)
    • The logic of sampling (Babbie, Ch. 8)
    • Methods for assessing dyads and groups (Crano & Brewer, ch. 17)
    • Scaling (Crano & Brewer, ch. 14-15)
    • Review of validity and reliability (Fraenkel & Wallen, ch. 8)
    • Survey research (Fraenkel & Wallen, ch. 17)
      • Finding and evaluating appropriate measurement instruments
  • Data Analysis
    • Descriptive (Fraenkel & Wallen, ch. 10)
    • Inferential (Fraenkel & Wallen, ch. 11)
    • Exploratory
    • Quantifying and coding (Babbie, Ch. 14)
    • Data manipulation: Univariate analysis, subgroup comparisons, bivariate analysis, multivariate analysis (Babbie, Ch. 15)
    • Content analysis (Crano & Brewer, ch. 13)
  • Statistical package applications
    • Excel
    • SPSS
    • Stata
  • qualitative analysis tools
    • review of Hyperresearch
  • Research methods
    • Quantitative
    • Qualitative
    • Mixed (Tashakkori & Teddlie)
    • Modes of observation: Experiments, survey research, field research, unobtrusive research, evaluation research (Babbie, Part 3)
    • Action research (Fraenkel & Wallen, ch. 23)
  • Evaluating educational research
    • Meta-analysis (Crano & Brewer, ch. 18)
    • Pairing "how to" literature of some of the above methods with a constructivist approach in which we evaluate published research (or in-process research, inc. our work from last year)... Some samples of research reports can be found in Fraenkel & Wallen (See list of features on p. vii)
  • Collaborative and interdisciplinary research
  • Research writing
    • What is a literature review? (Fraenkel & Wallen, ch. 5-- not very good though-- other suggestions? Perhaps we could review samples together from other universities with EdD programs??? -- UCLA? -- I'd love to see some models!)
  • Research presentation
  • Research pulbication process
  • Those recurrent and somewhat abstract terms (Babbie, Ch. 2); how do they apply to our own research?
    • Positivism (Tashakkori & Teddlie, Ch. 1)
    • Structural Functionalism
    • Etc.
  • The Use of Theory (Cresswell Ch. 7)
  • The research process: steps along the way and how they relate to one another

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