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Week of Jan 6th    Introduction to Research in Education

Read    MacMillan, Chapter 1
Post     Using ERIC (http://eric.ed.gov), find an online research article and analyze it per table 1.2 and figure 1.4

Week of Jan 13^th    Research Problems

Read    MacMillan, Chapter 2
Post     design own Research Question, based on figure 2.1
& propose suggestions to somebody else’s

Week of Jan 20^th    Locating Literature

Read    MacMillan, Chapter 3
Post     find an article related to your question and critique its literature review

Week of Jan 27^th    Participants & Sampling

Read    MacMillan, Chapter 4
Post     find an article related to your question and critique its sampling procedures
propose who you would use as the target group for your study

Week of Feb 3^rd    Educational Measurement

Read    MacMillan, Chapter 5
Post     Find an online research article and analyze it

 Week of Feb 10^th    Data Collection

Read    MacMillan, Chapter 6
Assignm’t    Research Design

Week of  Feb 17^th    Non-Experimental Research Design

Read    MacMillan, Chapter 7
Post     Find an online research article and analyze it

Week of  Feb 24^th    Experimental Research Design

Read    MacMillan, Chapter 8
Assignm’t    Critique a Quantitative Research Article

Week of Mar 3^rd    Understanding Statistical Inferences

Read    MacMillan, Chapter 9
Post     Do the online stats quiz

Week of Mar 10^th    Qualitative Research Design

Read    MacMillan, Chapter 10
Assignm’t    Critique a Qualitative Research Article

Week of Mar 17^th    Action Research

Read    MacMillan, Chapter 12
Post     Find an online Action Research article and analyze it

Week of Mar 24^th    Discussion & Conclusions

Read    MacMillan, Chapter 13
Post     Find an online Thesis or Dissertation and analyze its Discussion & Conclusions section

Week of Apr 7^th    The Intelligent Consumer: Putting it all together

Read    MacMillan, Chapter 14
Assignm’t    Critique a Policy Paper

Week of Apr 14^th    That’s it.  That’s All. It is over.

Final grades are due so if there are any outstanding assignments  …