SPED 600 Introduction of Graduate Research

This course is designed to introduce students to research in special education. Course participants will be able to critically evaluate research studies and develop research proposals that can be carried out in schools and other professional settings. The course will aid professionals in their ability to locate research studies, interpret and understand research studies, and to decipher their symbols and terminology. In addition, the course will enable participants to design research studies, including finding and using literature in their educational field, writing an introduction and state a purpose for a study, identifying research questions and hypotheses, stating the significance of a study, and developing advanced methods and procedures for data collection and analysis. The course will focus on the two predominant approaches used by most researchers: quantitative and qualitative.