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• EDU 626 Entire Course
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• 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 for gifted children, you may want to
  focus on the advantages/disadvantages of
  homogeneous grouping of gifted students. Why is
  it an exciting topic for you?

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• EDU 626 Week 1 DQ 1 Brainstorm
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• 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 for gifted children, you may want to
  focus on the advantages/disadvantages of
  homogeneous grouping of gifted students. Why is
  it an exciting topic for you?

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• EDU 626 Week 1 DQ 2 Research Questions and
  Hypotheses
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• 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. Make sure to identify and explain the
  similarities and differences in your own question
  and hypothesis. 

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• EDU 626 Week 1 Research Topic
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• 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 that correspond to the
  topic. You may use the questions/hypotheses you
  developed in this weeks second discussion if
  they pertain to the approved topic. Discuss the
  process by which you selected and formed your
  research questions and hypotheses and the
  challenges you experienced in writing them. Make
  sure you identify

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• EDU 626 Week 2 Annotated Bibliography
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• 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
  and reference pages. Create a reference page for
  your Final Paper listing the 10 or more scholarly
  sources in your annotated bibliography using
  correct APA format. For information regarding
  annotated bibliographies and APA formatting,
  visit the Ashford Writing Center, located under
  the Learning Resources tab in the left navigation
  of the online course

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• EDU 626 Week 2 Critical Thinking Questions
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• EDU 626 Week 2 Critical Thinking Questions
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• 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 from your professional
  experience and cite the primary text when
  possible
• a. Describe what you consider to be the
  advantages and disadvantages of

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• EDU 626 Week 2 DQ 1 Pros and Cons of Literature
  Sources
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• Week 2
• 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. For your topic, list two primary sources
  and two secondary sources that you are
  considering using. Provide links or reference
  information for both.

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• EDU 626 Week 2 DQ 2 Managing Literature Sources
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• 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. Describe three
  of the features that you found useful and how you
  would use each. Explain how RefWorks can assist
  you in reaching your educational goals.

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• EDU 626 Week 3 DQ 1 Validity and Reliability
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• Week 3
• 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. How important are validity and
  reliability in data collection? How do the
  results of your critical analysis of the data
  contribute to the validity and reliability of
  your literature source? Include a link or
  reference to the chosen study.

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• EDU 626 Week 3 DQ 2 Selecting Statistics
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• 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?

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• EDU 626 Week 3 Procedures or Methods
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• EDU 626 Week 3 Procedures or Methods
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• 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,
  and what will be done to collect and analyze the
  data. Include in your discussion how you will
  determine the validity and reliability of data

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• EDU 626 Week 4 Critical Thinking Questions
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• EDU 626 Week 4 Critical Thinking Questions
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• 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
  using specific examples from your professional
  experience and cite the text when possible
• a. Locate an example of published survey research
  in a reputable journal. Compare and contrast it
  with the article that appears in its entirety in
  Chapter 11

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• EDU 626 Week 4 DQ 1 Quantitative and Qualitative
  Research
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• Week 4
• 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? Give an example of a
  research question that could be addressed
  quantitatively and one that could be addressed
  qualitatively.

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• EDU 626 Week 5 Critical Thinking Questions
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• EDU 626 Week 5 Critical Thinking Questions
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• 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 examples from your professional
  experience and cite the primary text when
  possible
• a. What sorts of topics are best approached
  through action research?

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• EDU 626 Week 5 DQ 1 Action Research
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• Week 5
• Action Research. What are the differences between
  action research and other forms of research?
  Think of a problem that could be addressed using
  action research methods. Describe this problem
  and how action research could be used.

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• EDU 626 Week 5 DQ 2 Evaluation Research
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• 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
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• 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?

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• EDU 626 Week 6 DQ 2 Conflicting Perspectives in
  Educational Research
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• 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 in this area of education?
  What could be added to this research agenda to
  encourage useful research in this field that will
  add to the body of knowledge?

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• EDU 626 Week 6 Final Paper
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• 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
• a. Title page (formatted per APA guidelines as
  outlined in the Ashford Writing Center)
• b. Abstract (a brief summary of your paper)
• c. Introduction (clearly describe the purpose of
  your study and research questions/hypotheses)

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