EDUC 872
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Course Reflections
The goal of this course was to train us to identify and critically review research for selected K-12 and higher education policy issues and through their analysis determine the strength of the undergirding evidence. This course helped me achieve four goals: (a) become a competent consumer and critic of educational research; (b) work with a colleague as a team to investiage the research on a topic and present the findings as a team; (c) develop presentation skills; (d) get an exposure to several persistent, current, and emerging educational issues and develop a bibliography on those topics for potential future use. I presented School Choice: Voucher Programs (ppt - team presentation), International Educational Comparisons (ppt), and Grade Retention: Does It Work? (ppt). This was a course with very few reading assignments, however, it forced us to take the responsibility of both learning and teaching, and do a lot of reading and research on our own to prepare our presentations on selected topics. [Click here] to see the list of competencies achieved in this course. |