Literacy Res Sem 3

Catalog description

The third of a four semester course designed to support candidates in conceptualizing a research project around literacy learning and teaching. In this semester the focus is on the teacher as researcher and writer who develops expertise in choosing research methods, creating a specific research design, and implementing this research design. Candidates will develop further skills in articulating the construction, purposes, rationales, and specific formats of a variety of research methods. Candidates will design a methodology chapter where they bring all of these knowledges and skills together. Candidates will begin to implement data collection and learn some techniques for data analysis. Includes 8 hours of fieldwork.