ED 7260 - Applied Education Research

Every school leader is aware of the myriad issues associated with schools. In addition they are aware of the endless resources that can be used to understand an issue in their school. This course has the student identify a significant school-wide issue, one that requires research about the cause of the problem and possible solution. The student will find scholarly research about the issue and develop an introduction and comprehensive literature review along with reference page. The student will become familiar with action research and develop a plan to collect data about their school-wide issue. Finally using the data collection plan, students will collect data about their issue. This course is the prerequisite for ED 7510 where the student will take the information, gather data from the school that is pertinent to the issue, develop a comprehensive plan to solve the problem, and share this plan with appropriate school leaders for their approval. (4 Credits) Meets MED CORE requirement