Ed4002 Critical thinking strategies for educational research

This course emphasizes the acquisition of the needed research skills in order to develop in the student a critical thinking about educational research. This critical thinking approach demands the student to be able to know the basic concepts and approaches of educational research, explain its meaning, locate reports, evaluate and write coherent essays which integrate several educational research studies about his or her interest area.

Objectives:

• Identify a set of basic concepts about educational research.
• Be able to use data based in education.
• Evaluate critically educational research reports.
• Write coherent essays which integrate several educational research studies about an interest area

Content:

• Basic concepts
• Information sources: The process of searching information.
• Methods and techniques: The process of critical evaluation of research studies
• Reports: The process of writing communication of research studies.