EDUC 712

Student Learning Objectives

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Guided practice in designing and conduction of qualitative research in education.  Analyze qualitative methods, data collection, results. 
 

Goal 1: Effective communicators and collaborators

1.1 Developed: Demonstrates open communication with stake holders.

1.4 Developed: Develops positive, meaningful and sustaining relationships with all constituents.

Goal 3: Designers and users of quantitative and qualitative research to effectuate reform and increase student achievement

3.1 Developed: Comprehends the relationship and relevance of various theories of knowledge to the study and application of research methodologies in education.

3.2 Developed: Knows the difference between quantitative and qualitative research design and how epistemologies.

3.3 Developed: Comprehends how theoretical paradigms and perspective are reflected in those research methodologies.

3.4 Developed: Recognizes the qualities of an effective research question that expresses a direction for inquiry in precise terms, that is based on a review of the pertinent literature, and that avoids the pitfalls of advocacy.

3.5 Developed: Knows what are frequency distributions and their meaning.

3.6 Developed: Knows what contingency tables are and how to test variable relationships.

3.7 Developed: Knows the concepts of reliability and validity.

Goal 4: Ethical leaders and decision makers

4.2 Developed: Models ethical behavior.

4.3 Developed: Expects and reinforces ethical behavior.

4.4 Developed: Models decision making grounded in ethics.

Goal 6: Agents of change in education

6.4 Introduced: Maintains positive, meaningful, and sustaining relationships among colleagues and constituents to bring about positive changes.

Goal 7: Leaders who recognize, celebrate, and acknowledge the contributions of all individuals 
7.4 Developed: Develops healthy organizational cultures in which all individuals arevalued.