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Heather MacDonald; Veronic Bezaire – Advances in Physiology Education, 2024
Information literacy skills are an important part of research skills for undergraduate science students. This case study presents a novel approach to developing these types of research skills. By deconstructing the research process into separate steps, explicitly defining, and practicing the skills involved, students can progressively develop…
Descriptors: Research Skills, Research Training, Undergraduate Students, Physiology
Nella Abayeva; Vitaliy Zhurov; Lezzetzhan Mustafina – Cogent Education, 2024
This study determined the effectiveness of a developed MOOC 'Statistical Analysis and Information Processing for Research' in enhancing Kazakhstan's young researchers' research skills. This study employed pedagogical experience generalization, pedagogical observation, discussion, questioning, and mathematical statistics to process experimental…
Descriptors: MOOCs, Universities, Foreign Countries, Electronic Learning
Štemberger, Tina – Center for Educational Policy Studies Journal, 2020
Professional learning is a continuum starting in initial teacher education and persisting throughout the teacher's career. Initial teacher education programmes should therefore prepare prospective teachers for professional learning via research. There is, however, little knowledge about how initial teacher education programmes educate students…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Education Programs, Preservice Teacher Education, Research Skills
The Accounting Undergraduate Capstone: Promoting Synthesis, Reflection, Transition, and Competencies
Johnson, Grace F.; Halabi, Abdel K. – Journal of Education for Business, 2011
The authors review 24 midwestern institutions that have an undergraduate capstone course. Specifically they focus on accounting capstone courses, discovering that these are used to promote personal and functional skill development in 8 areas: research, problem solving, critical thinking, reflection, synthesis, teamwork, communication, and…
Descriptors: Accounting, Skill Development, Undergraduate Study, Curriculum
Bakken, Lori L.; Núñez, Jennifer; Couture, Cathy – American Journal of Evaluation, 2014
Program evaluation is recognized as an essential skill set for practitioners in service-related fields, such as education, nonprofit management, social work, and public health. Recently, the need for a public workforce trained in evaluation has increased and is driven primarily by our nation's emphasis on accountability during a time when…
Descriptors: Partnerships in Education, School Community Programs, School Community Relationship, Models
Jenkins, Damian Elizabeth Corbin – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Over the past three decades, researchers have studied doctoral research training programs using large scale surveys making visible trends in numbers of and kinds of research courses required, or using focused qualitative methods to gain rich, textured accounts of graduate school experiences. Both kinds of studies fail to capture the local,…
Descriptors: Program Development, Researchers, Doctoral Programs, Research Methodology
Badke, William – Public Services Quarterly, 2007
Associated Canadian Theological Schools is a graduate seminary consortium affiliated with Trinity Western University. Since its beginning in 1988 it has had a required one credit research course as a prerequisite for all programs. Several factors demanded the creation of an online version of the course as an alternative to the ongoing live course,…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Online Courses, Information Literacy, Skill Development
Tag, Sylvia G. – Public Services Quarterly, 2007
This article describes the formation and content of a required library and information research course for graduate and professional students enrolled in the Communication Sciences and Disorders Master of Arts degree program at Western Washington University. The course was created as a result of library assessment, student feedback, and faculty…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Course Descriptions, Course Content, Information Literacy

Maurer, Nancy M.; Mischler, Linda Fitts – Journal of Legal Education, 1994
The Albany Law School (New York) first-year course, "Introduction to Lawyering," integrates two traditionally distinct programs: clinical legal studies and legal reasoning, writing, and research. Its objective is to offer a broad context in which to understand the lawyering process and to introduce essential professional skills and…
Descriptors: Course Descriptions, Educational Strategies, Higher Education, Interdisciplinary Approach
Berkeley Unified School District, CA. Asian American Bilingual Center. – 1980
This performance report of the Summer Institute for Educational Research on Asian Americans summarizes and evaluates the activities and tasks completed from February 1 through October 31, 1980. The goal of the project was to increase the participation of Asian Americans in the field of educational research and development. Specifically, the…
Descriptors: Asian Americans, Bilingual Education, Communications, Course Descriptions
Berkeley Unified School District, CA. Asian American Bilingual Center. – 1981
The activities and tasks of a summer institute are summarized and evaluated in this report. The goal of the institute was to increase the participation of Asian and Pacific Americans (APA) in the field of educational research and development. Specifically, the institute provided an opportunity for participants to exchange ideas and common concerns…
Descriptors: Asian Americans, Communications, Course Descriptions, Educational Research

Prentice-Dunn, Steven; Roberts, Michael, C. – Teaching of Psychology, 1985
This six-week program involving minority honor students juxtaposed didactic and experiential research components in psychology to provide a breadth of exposure to researchers and topics while achieving in-depth training in research methodology. Interns initially participated in faculty-sponsored research but later developed and implemented their…
Descriptors: Course Descriptions, Higher Education, Institutes (Training Programs), Minority Groups

Dolinsky, Donna – American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education, 1994
An undergraduate pharmacy course unit designed to teach skills in reading, interpreting, analyzing, and critically evaluating research and presenting findings to peers, is described. Specific course objectives, criteria to be used for evaluating research, and a summary of student responses to a unit evaluation are appended. (MSE)
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Classroom Techniques, Course Descriptions, Evaluation Criteria

Gray, Rosemary – Education for Information: The International Review of Education and Training in Library and Information Science, 1984
Discusses use of online legal research databases in British law schools, priorities of legal research education, and role of law librarians; reviews implications of online systems; and describes a methods course which provides a comparative approach to traditional and online legal research and integrates research education within the curriculum.…
Descriptors: Course Descriptions, Course Objectives, Databases, Higher Education
Persell, Caroline Hodges – 1973
An experimental sociological research training program at Columbia University is described and analyzed. Two broad objectives of the Columbia Program are defined: (1) to bring sociological perspectives to bear on educational theory and problems, with emphasis on discovering and codifying the methodological approaches most suitable for…
Descriptors: Course Descriptions, Educational Objectives, Educational Programs, Educational Researchers
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