Action Research for Educational Improvement

Catalog description

This course provides graduate students interested in improving instruction with an introductory experience in designing, conducting, and analyzing action research in their classrooms, schools, and/or community-based learning sites. Action research is a systematic, reflective process driven by real-life questions, needs, and problems of a particular context. Students will learn fundamental principles of research design, refine their skills to evaluate and critique research, and consider the role of systematic, reflective practitioner-inquiry in guiding one's own professional practice and profession collaboration activities. This course meets the requirements for the Inquiry/Research standard of the M.Ed. Core.