Research Seminar in Special Education
(081060051,
Fall, 2002)
Instructor: Dr.
Joy F. Xin
Phone:
256-4747
E-mail:Xin@rowan.edu
Office: Sp. Ed.
Dept. Robinson
Office Hours:
Thursday, 3:30- 4:30, or by appointment
Class
Meetings
Time: 4:30 - 7:00pm, Thursday
Location: Room 215, Wilson Hall
Course
Description
This
course will provide students an opportunity to identify a problem in their
major field of study that is both worthy of investigation and practical within
the time of limits of the two semester sequence. Each student will conduct an
original research project that will result in the completion of the thesis
required by the Master's degree program. Components of the research process
will be reviewed as students prepare each section of the thesis.
Course
Objectives
Upon
completion of this course participants will be able to:
- formulate a question worthy of study in
the field of special education;
- develop an hypotheses/hypothesis related
to the research question;
- review the literate related to their
topic and critically analyze the adequacy of the research;
- design a research study to address the
identified question;
- present a completed research proposal in
both oral and written form.
Course
Requirements
There
are four requirements for this course:
1. Draft of Chapter 1 (Problem) (due Oct.10)
2. Draft of Chapter 2 (Literature review)
(due Nov. 7)
3. Preliminary draft of Chapter 3 (research
design) (due Dec. 12)
The
course grade will be determined by the amount and quality of the work completed.
Readings
Cone,
J & Foster, S. (1999), Dissertation and theses from start to finish.
(2nd edition.) American
Psychological Association.
Gall,
M., Borg, W. & Gall, J. (1996) Educational research: An introduction.
(6th edition.)
Longman, NY:
White Plains.
Course
Outline
Date Topic
Assignment
9/5
Introduction & overview
9/12
Research problem/research model
Ch. 1,2,3,4, 6
9/19 Individual
meetings
9/26
Researching the literature & review
Ch.7
10/3
Individual meetings
10/10
Research design
Ch. 8, 9 (Ch.1
due)
10/17
Individual meetings
10/24
Individual meetings
10/31
Individual meetings
11/7
Individual meetings
Ch.2 due
11/ 14
Individual meetings
11/21
Individual meetings
12/5
Individual meetings
12/12
Proposal presentation
Ch.3
due
12/19
Individual meetings (as needed)