Research in Special Education

Catalog description

This course introduces the fundamentals required for reading and conducting research focusing on special education. The goals of the course are to aid current and future teachers in becoming a critical consumer of research and to begin the process of becoming a good producer of research. Course activities will include: critically analyzing published research, identifying a topic and conducting a literature review to evaluate and synthesize what has been published on that topic; and using the literature review to develop research questions and methods to find answers.