Human-Sciences - Course - Introduction to Research Writing and Statistics in Education

This course helps student teachers understand qualitative and quantitative research design, develop the ability to critically analyze and synthesize empirical research, and write a literature review in the field of education. They will be introduced to Action Research philosophy and methodology, and learn to develop and state a research topic, problem, and research questions; locate, analyze and synthesize literature related to a research question; write a literature review that conforms to education research conventions. They apply basic statistical ideas: sampling distributions, sample surveys, design of experiments, measurement, analysis of data, data presentation, display and summary, averages, dispersion, correlation, probability, confidence intervals, and tests of significance.