Course Details

Introduction for Health Professions Education (HPE) students to the fundamentals of research design for education and scholarship in teaching and learning. This course offers a deep dive into educational research, covering problem identification, literature review, research question formulation, and the critical evaluation and synthesis of existing studies. It provides a solid foundation in quantitative research (including reliability, validity, survey construction, and validation), qualitative research (focusing on interviews and focus groups), and mixed methods research. The course emphasizes ethical principles in research and teaches effective data interpretation and presentation. Additionally, students will be introduced to grant development and introduced to their capstone project which is a research proposal. This course will equip students with the skills needed to excel in educational research.

Outcomes: Identify a research problem and method of literature review; Formulate research questions and hypothesis; Distinguish between quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods research; Describe fundamentals of quantitative research (e.g., reliability, validity, survey construction, and survey validation), qualitative research (as it relates to interviews and focus groups) and mixed methods research (how to manage and use more than one method of data collection); Analyze data and ethical research practices that guide educational research; Illustrate grant development with an introduction of the capstone project research proposal.