Basic Course Items and Foundational Concepts
EDP 612 Week 1
Dr. Abhik Roy
Course Content
The purpose and nature of scientific research.
How knowledge gained from scientific research differs from other types of knowledge.
How to formulate and articulate research problems.
The different types and uses of variables in a research study.
The methods and techniques for establishing and evaluating reliability and validity.
Course Content
The purpose and nature of scientific research.
How knowledge gained from scientific research differs from other types of knowledge.
How to formulate and articulate research problems.
The different types and uses of variables in a research study.
The methods and techniques for establishing and evaluating reliability and validity.
How to critically access and review literature relevant to a particular research problem.
Course Content
The purpose and nature of scientific research.
How knowledge gained from scientific research differs from other types of knowledge.
How to formulate and articulate research problems.
The different types and uses of variables in a research study.
The methods and techniques for establishing and evaluating reliability and validity.
How to critically access and review literature relevant to a particular research problem.
How to write a literature review.
Course Content
The purpose and nature of scientific research.
How knowledge gained from scientific research differs from other types of knowledge.
How to formulate and articulate research problems.
The different types and uses of variables in a research study.
The methods and techniques for establishing and evaluating reliability and validity.
How to critically access and review literature relevant to a particular research problem.
How to write a literature review.
The relationship between research questions and particular research designs.
Course Content
The purpose and nature of scientific research.
How knowledge gained from scientific research differs from other types of knowledge.
How to formulate and articulate research problems.
The different types and uses of variables in a research study.
The methods and techniques for establishing and evaluating reliability and validity.
How to critically access and review literature relevant to a particular research problem.
How to write a literature review.
The relationship between research questions and particular research designs.
The most common forms of quantitative and qualitative approaches to research in education and the social and behavioral sciences.
Course Content
The purpose and nature of scientific research.
How knowledge gained from scientific research differs from other types of knowledge.
How to formulate and articulate research problems.
The different types and uses of variables in a research study.
The methods and techniques for establishing and evaluating reliability and validity.
How to critically access and review literature relevant to a particular research problem.
How to write a literature review.
The relationship between research questions and particular research designs.
The most common forms of quantitative and qualitative approaches to research in education and the social and behavioral sciences.
The strengths and shortcomings of these approaches to research.
Course Materials
eCampus access: for submissions and grades only
Text: Leavy, P. (2017). Research design: Quantitative, qualitative, mixed methods, arts-based, and community-based participatory research approaches (1st ed.). The Guilford Press.
Digital edition (very free)
Softcover edition (not legally free) - ISBN: 9781462514380
Keep These in Mind
Research
is a systematic process of collecting and logically analyzing information (data) for some purpose
does not care about your feelings or views
demands ethics and trust or we're all screwed
Types
- Descriptive
- Relational
- Causal
Purposes
- Theoretical
- Empirical
- Probabilistic
- Causational
Human Nature v. Science!
Human Nature
Science
- usually observations are inaccurate
- ensure observations are accurate
- generalize from a few cases
- explicitly sample for generalizing
- observe selectively to see what we’re looking for
- consciously decide what and how to observe
- make things up to fulfill gaps
Human Nature v. Science!
Human Nature
Science
- usually observations are inaccurate
- ensure observations are accurate
- generalize from a few cases
- explicitly sample for generalizing
- observe selectively to see what we’re looking for
- consciously decide what and how to observe
- make things up to fulfill gaps
- base conclusions on evidence alone
Human Nature v. Science!
Human Nature
Science
- usually observations are inaccurate
- ensure observations are accurate
- generalize from a few cases
- explicitly sample for generalizing
- observe selectively to see what we’re looking for
- consciously decide what and how to observe
- make things up to fulfill gaps
- base conclusions on evidence alone
- get personally and emotionally involved
Human Nature v. Science!
Human Nature
Science
- usually observations are inaccurate
- ensure observations are accurate
- generalize from a few cases
- explicitly sample for generalizing
- observe selectively to see what we’re looking for
- consciously decide what and how to observe
- make things up to fulfill gaps
- base conclusions on evidence alone
- get personally and emotionally involved
- respect scientific norms regardless of opinions
Human Nature v. Science!
Human Nature
Science
- usually observations are inaccurate
- ensure observations are accurate
- generalize from a few cases
- explicitly sample for generalizing
- observe selectively to see what we’re looking for
- consciously decide what and how to observe
- make things up to fulfill gaps
- base conclusions on evidence alone
- get personally and emotionally involved
- respect scientific norms regardless of opinions
- form views with little or no revisions and stick with them
Human Nature v. Science!
Human Nature
Science
- usually observations are inaccurate
- ensure observations are accurate
- generalize from a few cases
- explicitly sample for generalizing
- observe selectively to see what we’re looking for
- consciously decide what and how to observe
- make things up to fulfill gaps
- base conclusions on evidence alone
- get personally and emotionally involved
- respect scientific norms regardless of opinions
- form views with little or no revisions and stick with them
- constantly revise views
Human Nature v. Science!
Human Nature
Science
- usually observations are inaccurate
- ensure observations are accurate
- generalize from a few cases
- explicitly sample for generalizing
- observe selectively to see what we’re looking for
- consciously decide what and how to observe
- make things up to fulfill gaps
- base conclusions on evidence alone
- get personally and emotionally involved
- respect scientific norms regardless of opinions
- form views with little or no revisions and stick with them
- constantly revise views
- think we can figure out everything
Human Nature v. Science!
Human Nature
Science
- usually observations are inaccurate
- ensure observations are accurate
- generalize from a few cases
- explicitly sample for generalizing
- observe selectively to see what we’re looking for
- consciously decide what and how to observe
- make things up to fulfill gaps
- base conclusions on evidence alone
- get personally and emotionally involved
- respect scientific norms regardless of opinions
- form views with little or no revisions and stick with them
- constantly revise views
- think we can figure out everything
- accept that not everything is knowable