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BUED 506 Research in Effective Teaching
3 hours. Offered fall. Format: online. Analysis and investigation of current research in effective teaching methods as related to specific subject areas, learning styles, and current school reform will be applied.

BUED 634 Adult Development in Educational Organizations
2 hours. Offered summer. Format: online or classroom centered. This course explores ways for shaping an educational organization as a healthy place for everyone's growth and development, with special attention to adult students, faculty, administrators, and support staff. The course will approach the field of adult growth with a variety of theoretical and practical questions, such as: What are the implications of various theories of adulthood for how we define "development," "maturity," and "wisdom"? Are there common features of the adult trajectory that apply across the diversities of gender, class, and ethnicity? Can we, and should we, intentionally seek to foster development in adulthood? How can leaders smoothly handle a ceaseless flow of problems and at the same time provide a climate for each member's ongoing growth and change? How can "staff development" really be about development and not just training, about transformation as well as information? How can conflict be a resource for development? What provisions should leaders make for their own growth as they develop their concepts of leadership?

BUED 687 Critical Issues in Higher Education
3 hours. This course examines contemporary trends and issues in American higher education designed to orient students to issues, ideas, and literature that constitute the study of higher education, with emphasis on underlying social and political issues that shape higher education and organizational change.

BUED 701 Quantitative Research Methods
3 hours. Offered summer. Format: classroom centered. Those who make organizational decisions often request quantitative research data to help them solve organizational problems. When the research data is flawed, organizations produce bad social policy. This course helps beginning educational researchers balance the competing demands of formal experimental and survey design principles with the ever-present practical constraints of the real world so that they can conduct sound quantitative research. Emphasis will be placed on formulating research questions, identifying relevant target populations, selecting respondents for study, refining definitions of the effects of interest, identifying relevant comparisons, selecting appropriate measures, determining how many subjects to study, taking advantage of the results of previous research and pilot studies, and anticipating the unanticipated.

BUED 702 Qualitative Research Methods
3 hours. Offered summer. Format: classroom centered. Qualitative research does not mean just using words instead of numbers. This research tradition is increasingly being used in education to answer questions for which experimental and quantitative methods are inappropriate or incomplete. This course introduces the basic issues of theory and method in qualitative research and provides a structured, supportive environment for learning the essential skills of qualitative research. These skills include negotiating a research relationship with those studied, identifying and critiquing one's own assumptions about the people and issues studied, developing research questions, conducting observations and interviews, confronting ethical issues, analyzing qualitative data, and communicating the results of research.

BUED 703 Bibliographic Research and Writing
2 hours. Offered fall, spring, and summer. Format: classroom centered. Students will learn the elements of educational research and writing appropriate graduate education programs. Research methods include bibliographic searches using electronic databases, interlibrary loan, and electronic card catalog. The writing emphasis will include writing syntheses of research findings, writing term papers and research proposals. The course will also emphasize the citation style required in education and psychology research writing and the use of electronic resource software.