Evaluating Educational Research
and Action Research
The course assists early childhood professionals in reading, analyzing, and evaluating early childhood education research. Participants will investigate current issues by way of action research, ethnographic, and qualitative inquiry techniques. Research proposals will be created that relate to practical policy settings (classrooms, schools, agencies, etc.).
Evaluating Educational and Action Research
Students will compose an outline of their proposed quantitative, qualitative, or mixed methods research study. The reader should have an understanding of the study, but does not need enough detail to replicate it.
Get Kids Ready Research
Understand the Get Kids Ready policy, identify and analyze benefits and challenges to the policy, reflect on real-world implications to ECE
Learning Objectives
- Work as a change agent and advocate for children, families, and early childhood education professionals by leading and supporting policy efforts to move towards a targeted improvement or goal
- Demonstrate an ability and commitment to engage in professional,
collaborative relationships with children, families, administrators, policy leaders, legislators, and community members. - .Present evidence and communicate effectively in written, visual, oral, and online formats to achieve desired outcomes in the field of early childhood education and policy