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/district. This course has the student take the scholarly research done in ED 7030 Culminating Leadership Plan about the school/district issue identified and create their manuscript which includes an introduction and comprehensive literature review along with reference page. In addition, the student will become familiar with action research and develop a plan to collect data about their school/district issue, and write the methodology section of their manuscript.  Students will submit their research proposal to the IRB Committee for approval. Finally using the data collection plan, students will start to collect data about their issue. This course is the prerequisite for ED 7510 where the student will finish gathering data pertinent to the issue, analyze the data, write their results and discussion sections of the manuscript, and share their work with appropriate school leaders and colleagues. Prerequisite: Pass ED 7030 Culminating Leadership Plan with a grade of B or better. (4 Credits)