ELRL 6270 Research in Reading

This course is designed to develop the student as a discriminating consumer of research and a knowledgeable practitioner of classroom-based action research. The student is introduced to the major kinds of research (experimental, ethnographic, descriptive, historical, naturalistic), rudimentary statistics, and the components of a classic research study. The student is expected to complete a graduate project involving the posing of researchable questions, the collection of data, and the writing of a five-chapter thesis. Prerequisite(s): ELRL 6210 AND ELRL 6230 or CIRL 6210 AND CIRL 6230
Credits: 3.0