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EDU 626(ASH) Course Tutorial

• EDU 626 Entire Course (Ash Course)

• EDU 626 Week 1 DQ 1 Brainstorm

• EDU 626 Complete Class, New Coursework
• Business - General Business
• Week 1
• Brainstorm. Brainstorm potential educational
  research topics that are of interest to you. What
  is a topic that will motivate you to want to
  explore it further? Try to focus in as much as
  possible. For example, if you are interested in
  education

• Brainstorm. Brainstorm potential educational
  research topics that are of interest to you. What
  is a topic that will motivate you to want to
  explore it further? Try to focus in as much as
  possible. For example, if you are interested in
  education for gifted children, you may want to
  focus on the advantages/disadvantages of
  homogeneous grouping of gifted students.

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EDU 626(ASH) Course Tutorial

• EDU 626 Week 1 DQ 2 Research Questions

• EDU 626 Week 1 Research Topi1

• Research Questions and Hypotheses. What are the
  similarities and differences between research
  questions and hypotheses? How should a researcher
  determine the use of a question or hypothesis?
  Create a research question that aligns to your
  chosen topic and then create a corresponding
  hypothesis.

• EDU 626 Week 1 Research Topic
• Business - General Business
• Research Topic.
• Once your research topic has been approved by
  your instructor, write a three- to five-page
  paper (excluding title and reference pages) and
  discuss what aspect(s) of your chosen topic
  interests you most. Write three research
  questions or hypotheses

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EDU 626(ASH) Course Tutorial

• EDU 626 Week 1 Research Topic

• EDU 626 Week 2 Annotated Bibliography

• EDU 626 Week 1 Research Topic
• Business - General Business
• Research Topic.
• Once your research topic has been approved by
  your instructor, write a three- to five-page
  paper (excluding title and reference pages) and
  discuss what aspect(s) of your chosen topic
  interests you most. Write three research questions

• EDU 626 Week 2 Annotated Bibliography
• Business - General Business
• Annotated Bibliography. Summarize and complete an
  annotated bibliography of at least ten (10)
  scholarly sources that pertain to your research
  topic. This annotated bibliography should be a
  minimum of five pages in length, excluding title

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EDU 626(ASH) Course Tutorial

• EDU 626 Week 2 Critical Thinking Questions

• EDU 626 Week 2 DQ 1Pros and Cons

• EDU 626 Week 2 Critical Thinking Questions
• Business - General Business
• Critical Thinking Questions. 
• After reading Chapters 4-5 of the text, answer
  the following questions that require you to think
  and respond critically. In a two- to five-page
  paper, address the following questions using
  specific examples

• Pros and Cons of Literature Sources. Describe the
  pros and cons of different sources of literature
  including the library, online libraries, academic
  journals, and World Wide Web resources. Also,
  discuss the differences between primary and
  secondary sources and why it is important to
  focus on primary sources in your literature
  review.

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EDU 626(ASH) Course Tutorial

• EDU 626 Week 2 DQ 2Managing Literature

• EDU 626 Week 3 DQ 1Validity and Reliability

• Managing Literature Sources. Explore online
  resources such as WebNotes and Zotero. What
  services do they offer? What are the benefits of
  each? What are the pitfalls? In addition, create
  an account using the RefWorks tool located on the
  Ashford Library website. Become familiar with all
  of the features RefWorksprovides

• Validity and Reliability. Using ProQuest (located
  in the Ashford online library) locate a research
  study that pertains to your topic or use a
  research study from your annotated bibliography
  and summarize the data collection. Is the data
  valid and reliable? Cite examples of data from
  the study that you considered valid and reliable
  and explain why.

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EDU 626(ASH) Course Tutorial

• EDU 626 Week 3 DQ 2 Selecting Statistics

• EDU 626 Week 3 Procedures or Methods

• Selecting Statistics. Describe the differences
  between descriptive and inferential statistics,
  including the purpose of each, and what each is
  intended to measure. Which one would you use in
  your study? Why? What specific indices or
  inferences would you use, and why? What problems
  do you think you may encounter?

• EDU 626 Week 3 Procedures or Methods
• Business - General Business
• Procedures or Methods. 
• In a three- to five-page paper (excluding title
  and reference pages), create an outline of the
  procedures or methods of your research design
  proposal. Include a step-by-step description of
  research design, the participants, instruments,

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• EDU 626 Week 4 Critical Thinking Questions

• EDU 626 Week 4 DQ 1 Quantitative

• EDU 626 Week 4 Critical Thinking Questions
• Business - General Business
• Critical Thinking Questions. After reading
  Chapters 10-14 of the text, answer the following
  reflective questions that will require you to
  think and respond critically. In a two- to
  five-page paper, address the following questions

• Quantitative and Qualitative Research. What are
  the distinctive characteristics that
  differentiate qualitative research from
  quantitative research? Describe how your research
  proposal will obtain and incorporate qualitative
  and/or quantitative data. What are the inherent
  weaknesses of the two types of research? How do
  you determine which to use?

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• EDU 626 Week 5 Critical Thinking Questions1

• EDU 626 Week 5 DQ 2Evaluation Research

• EDU 626 Week 5 Critical Thinking Questions
• Business - General Business
• Critical Thinking Questions. After reading
  Chapters 15-16 of the text, answer the following
  reflective questions that require you to think
  and respond critically. In a one- to two-page
  paper, address the following questions using
  specific

• Evaluation Research. Find an example of
  evaluation research from your literature review
  or an additional search. Summarize the findings
  and recommendation based on this research

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• EDU 626 Week 6 DQ 1 Application of Research

• EDU 626 Week 6 DQ 2Conflicting

• Application of Research. How will you apply your
  research in education? Who will benefit from your
  research? What future research will you conduct
  on this subject? How do you think that your
  research will impact education within the next
  decade?

• Conflicting Perspectives in Educational Research.
  After reading Bridging the Evidence Gap in
  Developmental Education summarized in the weeks
  required readings, discuss your thoughts on the
  use of research in developmental education. Do
  you feel that the research agenda proposed will
  help to alleviate the conflicting perspectives
  regarding research

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EDU 626(ASH) Course Tutorial

• EDU 626 Week 6 Final Paper

• EDU 626 Week 6 Final Paper
• Business - General Business
• Research Proposal Instructions
• You will be creating a research proposal. This
  assignment will emulate the format of the example
  research proposal presented in the course
  textbook, Introduction to Educational Research.
  The Final Paper must be organized as follows

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