Research Methods (EDPE 605) is a Department of Educational & Counseling Psychology (ECP) graduate course given at the Faculty of Education at McGill University. The course starts on Monday, January 5th in room EDUC 629 from 11:35 to 2:25.
Course Lecturer: Sam Bruzzese (email: sam.bruzzese@mcgill.ca & Bluesky: sbruzzese.org)
Course Overview:
This course introduces graduate students to research design and methodology in education. Students will develop the knowledge and skills needed to design, plan, and propose rigorous educational research. The course emphasizes research design as an iterative, reflexive, thought-driven process while exploring quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods approaches. Students will learn to use AI tools appropriately and critically throughout the research process, culminating in a complete research proposal.
Calendar Description: "Research methods and designs, planning and evaluating research, relations between research and statistical designs, interdisciplinary and non-quantitative approaches, meta-analysis, and the use of computers beyond computation. Ethics, scholarly writing."
Course Focus: This course develops skills that facilitate students' understanding of research design, helping them formulate their own research questions and understand different research methods (qualitative, quantitative, and mixed). Students will learn to:
Conduct literature searches using keywords and generative AI
Identify a focused research interest
Formulate a complete research proposal
Learning Goals:
To provide balanced coverage of qualitative and quantitative research.
To help you learn how to begin to conduct research.
To help you learn how to read and evaluate research studies.
