EDSA 510 - Using Data for Instruction and Educational Policy

Credit(s): 3
3 semester hours
This class will study the essential concepts, principles, and methods employed in the field of education research. Focus will be on formulation and development of improvement of one problem affecting student achievement for investigation in the student’s workplace; survey of the related literature; selection and use of one or more appropriate methods for gathering evidence coupled with statistical analysis for experimental and control groups; interpretation of data; and reporting and implications of the findings. Eighteen hours of fieldwork required.