Students become acquainted with historical, descriptive, and experimental studies and learn appropriate techniques for research documentation. Students develop a research proposal. Required for the Teacher Leadership concentration. The proposal that was developed in the Principles of Educational Research course is expanded into the development of a classroom action research project. Data collection techniques that can be applied in an authentic classroom are studied and practiced.
Students write the introduction and methods section of their classroom action research projects.
Opportunities for peer editing and coaching are provided. Students conduct their classroom action research project, collect and analyze the data, and continue the literature review. Opportunities for peer editing and interpretation of results are available. An investigation of sociocultural factors which affect the acquisition of reading skills. Special attention on the relationship between learning styles and reading comprehension and the development of methods and materials to enhance comprehension in the content areas.