ECED 645 - Action Research Seminar in Early Education

Credit(s): 3
Lecture: 3
Non-Lecture: 0

This course introduces students to action research. Teachers investigate either their own practice, or a situation involving children’s development, behavior, social interactions, or learning difficulties, family involvement, or an alternative learning environment, in order to gain a better understanding of it and to make professional decisions. A primary objective of this course is to prepare students to develop and implement an action research project. Topics include an analysis of collaborative and spectator forms of research and issues in research design, ways to identify problems to investigate, the selection of appropriate research methods, collecting and analyzing data, and ways to draw conclusions from the research.

Prerequisite(s): EDUC 504, ECED 541, and ECED 542.