GS301 : EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH METHODS

Department

Department of Social work

Academic Program

Bachelor in Social Work

Type

General

Credits

02

Prerequisite

GS201

Overview

The course aims to understand the historical development of knowledge, develop their abilities to think scientifically, and enable them to use the scientific method in solving problems, and also aims to understand students of the types of research in educational and psychological sciences and how to apply, also provide them with the ability to understand the results of research and benefit from them and train them on how to choose research topics and how to formulate the problem, questions, objectives and importance and choose the appropriate statistical methods to process pure data and how to use data collection tools in educational research, It humiliates them to write graduation projects according to a scientific methodology.

Intended learning outcomes

- Define the concepts and types of scientific research.- Discuss the steps of writing scientific research.- Drawing a teaching map of the research methods used in his research project.- Linking the research topic to one of the research methods.- Constructive criticism through discussions in research topics.- Identifies important research topics within the classroom- Defines the dependent variable and the independent variable.

Teaching and learning methods

The lectures. Discussion sessions.

Methods of assessments

  • Midterm Exam 20%
  • Oral exam 10%
  • Discussion of research papers 10%
  • Final Exam 60%