It incorporates the purposes and strengths of both qualitative and quantitative approaches for understanding research problems. Introduction to history and theoretical underpinnings of qualitative research. Students then learn and practice fundamental methods of participant-observation, fieldnotes, interviewing, and transcription, and explore common models of qualitative research. Each workshop is developed around a topic of interest and concern to inservice teachers and other educational personnel. Practical application of workshop topics will be emphasized.
Course covers the major inferential statistical techniques common to the behavioral sciences.
Correlation, analysis of variance, linear regression, and analysis of covariance are major topics. Computer applications are included. Study of multivariate analysis of variance, canonical correlation, discriminant analysis, repeated measures, and factor analysis. Computer applications are included. The study of various experimental designs such as complete and fractional factorial designs, repeated measures designs, and nested designs.