Inquiry into Education

3 credits · Graduate School

An introduction to the function and means of various practices of educational research. Promotes understanding of the language of educational inquiry, aims and uses of research, various ways of framing research questions and designing studies, and procedures for obtaining, analyzing, and interpreting qualitative and quantitative data. Presents issues of procedure or design and related issues of validity: construct definition and data generation, instrumentation and data collection; and data quality, meaning, appropriateness, credibility, and inferences made based on data. For doctoral students or by permission of instructor. [3]