EDUC 790-01

Student Learning Objectives

​By the end of the course, students will be able to:

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• Knows the difference between quantitative and qualitative research design and how and how epistemological perspectives are reflected in those research methodologies.

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• Comprehends how theoretical paradigms and perspective are reflected in those research methodologies.

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• 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.

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• Knows what are frequency distributions and their meaning.

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• Knows what contingency tables are and how to test variable relationships.

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• Knows the concepts of reliability and validity.

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• Knows what is central tendency, variability, standard normal distributions and the likelihood of getting an exact mean.

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• Knows what effect sizes are in evaluation studies and how to calculate them on SPSS.

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• Demonstrates the concept of hypothesis, the concepts of Type I and Type II errors, t-tests, analysis of variance (ANOVA), and procedures for running t-tests and ANOVA on SPSS or similar statistical software.

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• Demonstrates the ideas of predicting one variable from another (correlation/regression) and explanatory power versus reliability of findings when interpreting correlations and regressions.