RES5463 - Research for Higher Education Professionals

Credits: 3

This course enables students to become informed consumers of educational research and to develop skills to understand collecting, analyzing, organizing, interpreting, and communicating data for educational and organizational decision making. An emphasis is placed on data-mining principles students can apply to determine whether particular scientifically based research findings are trustworthy and relevant for use within complex data sets. Emphasis is placed on how action research can become a vital tool for school leaders working to improve educational business operations and activities.