General Research Methods II

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This course offers a hands-on opportunity for students to engage with the research practices defining qualitative, quantitative, and mixed-methods research methodologies through an education lens. This course focuses on the application of educational research for the practitioner as well as in the administrative and policy sciences. The qualitative research component of the course will address common mechanisms for the collection and analysis of observations, interviews, and other records of human activity. Specific topics will include ethnographies, case studies, discourse analysis, and grounded theory. The quantitative research component will address common mechanisms for collecting and analyzing data using simple statistics and critically think about the use of statistics in both academic contexts as well as in popular media. Specific topics will include normal distributions, sampling distributions, methods of statistical estimation and inference, correlation, simple linear regression, and chi-square.