EDU 595: Directed Study in Education or Behavioral Sciences

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Course requirements

You will be expected to complete readings and assignments on an instructor-approved topic related to your professional goals. Some readings or assignments may be generic ones that encourage you to investigate change theory and models of change, whereas others may be more specific to the topic you have selected as the focus for your project. Working independently, you will complete a culminating research project. In most cases you will develop an "action research" project; you will identify a problem, conduct a review of the literature, analyze the problem, and propose possible solutions. In some cases, you may test out your proposed solutions and analyze your findings. Depending on your professional goals and the targeted issue selected, some of you may design alternative projects such as reviewing software or instructional resources in a certain area. The topic of your culminating research project and the plan for your project must be approved by the faculty supervisor before you begin work on the project. The final written project must be submitted in APA style, and it will be evaluated for quality of writing as well as for the substance of your research and analysis. A rubric for evaluating the final project will be provided at the beginning of the semester in which you enroll.