<p>Seminar, two hours. Effective educational leaders require ability to accurately diagnose educational problems before jumping to proposed solutions. Study designs must include systematic ways to collect and analyze data, as well as minimize potential threats to validity of data and analysis. Designed to equip students with tools needed to design research studies that address specific real-world educational problems. Basic understanding of research designs as strategies for investigating educational problems, such as types of questions that can be answered appropriately with qualitative and mixed methods studies, design components, planning for fieldwork and data collection, sampling, ethics, and credibility. Letter grading.</p>

Education

The school engages in fundamental work on what matters most in education and information studies in the 21st century: the discovery and application of usable knowledge at the crossroads of policy and practice.

School of Education and Information Studies

The department is a leader in the study and practice of urban education and issues of access, equity, and quality facing early childhood, K-12, and higher education.

General Catalog

Research Design

EDUC 296K

2 units