EDU-410 Research Writing in Education (3)

This course first helps students develop the ability to critically analyze empirical research and synthesize this research in a literature review; and second, develops an understanding of qualitative and quantitative research design, including the purposes, epistemologies, methodologies, and methods and their application to problems in the field of education. Students learn to develop and state a research topic, problem, and research questions; locate, analyze and synthesize literature related to a research question; write a literature review that conforms to education research conventions; analyze the differences and similarities between quantitative and qualitative research methodologies, their epistemologies, and traditions; understand and critique the quantitative and qualitative methods that are used in education research; and develop a research design for an education research problem. AU Core Integrative Requirement: Written Communication and Information Literacy II. Grading: A-F only. Prerequisite: EDU-205, and completion of Written Communication and Information Literacy I requirement.