Educational Studies Program Outcomes
Goal 1 : Students will know, understand, and be able to choose appropriate research designs.
- SLO 1 : Students will identify and describe common research designs and methods.
- SLO 2 : Students will select a research design that is appropriate to answer a research question.
Goal 2 : Students will construct a basic literature review in their area of study.
- SLO 3 : Students will use investigative tools and resources to identify and collect research literature.
- SLO 4 : Students will interpret and evaluate published research articles in their field of study.
- SLO 5 : Students will organize and prioritize research literature based on relevance to a research question.
Goal 3 : Students will propose a research study.
- SLO 6 : Students will develop contextually relevant and feasible research questions.
- SLO 7 : Students will articulate a research design of choice meeting quality standards for qualitative, quantitative, or mixed methods approaches.
- SLO 8 : Students will seek and acquire permission from the appropriate Institutional Review Board(s).
Goal 3 : Students will create a research proposal.
- SLO 9 : Students will use investigative tools to gather data.
- SLO 10 : Students will analyze collected data.
- SLO 11 : Students will integrate study results with literature and explore how the results support, contradict, or enhance the literature review.
- SLO 12 : Students will communicate their research study with the Springfield College community via a poster presentation.