ESR505 Educational Inquiry and Assessment

Students explore research paradigms and methodologies by studying their own educational settings and contexts. Students investigate topics that are of interest to them and learn how to retrieve, critique, and summarize published research. They produce and evaluate their own data to understand their classrooms and their students' achievement, behaviors, and attitudes. Working collaboratively and independently on small projects and assignments, students learn different approaches to data collection and evaluation considering issues of credibility, reliability and validity. This course requires a minimum of 15 hours of field-based activities. Students who have taken ESR506 and ESR507 may not receive degree credit for ESR505. This course is for students in M.Ed. programs. Prerequisite(s): None 3 semester hours