Capstone Seminar in Special Education

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Seminar dealing with advanced research analysis, interpretation, synthesis, and presentation in special education. SPLED 521 Capstone Seminar in Special Education (3) SPLED 521 is the capstone course of the M.Ed. in Special Education. In this course students develop and present their capstone projects. Projects generally relate to topics explored in both the student's area of emphasis, as well as in an initial research course. Projects may involve quantitative or qualitative data collection or syntheses of literature. Early in the course, students develop and refine research questions of their own interest. After questions are clearly delineated, students learn methods of data collection that will assist in answering their questions. Students will then learn skills needed to write for both practitioner and research outlets. Finally, students will develop and present their key findings to the class using appropriate technology.