EDU 607 - Teacher Research in Literacy and Language Development

The purpose of this course is to enable students to become generators of new contextualized knowledge through their own classroom-based research. Students will be introduced to major research paradigms and will learn and practice techniques of data collection and analysis. Naturalistic methods of studying literacy and language learning in real classroom contexts will be emphasized. Each student will generate a research question, design an empirical research study that will help answer the question, collect and analyze sample data, and summarize findings or revisions necessary to improve the study. The class will function as a community of researchers; a substantial portion of class time will be spent working in small groups.

Prerequisite(s): EDU 565, EDU 620, or EDU 559 and EDU 566, EDU 626 or EDU 557 and open to matriculated students in the MSEd. in Literacy Education or TESOL, or program permission.
Co-requisite(s):
Credits: 3

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Course Type: Education