EDSP 281

Critical Issues in Special Education Research and Practice

This course provides an introduction to Action Research in the field of special education. The overall goal is to improve teacher effectiveness in the classroom through research and develop teacher-researchers, producers and consumers of empirical knowledge. Students will develop research writing skills to understand problems of practice, critical issues, and policy in special education. The course is designed to facilitate connections between methodological paradigm and teaching practices related to doing action research and covers quantitative, qualitative, and mixed-methods research approaches.

Units: 6.0