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M.Ed on Education and Innovation: EDUEIT - Enquiry and Innovation Thesis

The M.Ed on Education and Innovation program offers a course titled EDUEIT - Enquiry and Innovation Thesis. This course is designed for students who opt for the research route within the program.

Course Description

This course is offered over two semesters and builds on the six-credit Introduction to Enquiry Methods and Innovation course in the Master of Education and Innovation Program. Before this course, students will have already started developing their plans for their enquiry and innovation project. They will have already drafted research questions and objectives in relation to a professional problem or challenge, identified their strategy for recruiting sample/research participants to their project, and designed the methods of data collection and processes and procedures of data analysis they will use.

Course Objectives

The course takes students through the stages of thesis proposal development, implementation, data analysis, presentation of findings, and project reporting. Students will plan and review individually their enquiry and innovation proposal on a topic related to a challenge or problem they face in their educational practice with the aim of addressing the problem through innovating with aspects of their practice.

Assessment

Students will be assessed by a written thesis which they will submit and orally defend before a panel of faculty.

Recommended Reading

The following books are recommended for this course:

• Introduction to Research in Education by Donald Ary; Lucy Cheser Jacobs; Christine K. Sorensen Irvine; David Walker
• Doing Your Research Project by Judith Bell
• Writing a Watertight Thesis by Mike Bottery; Nigel Wright
• Research Methods in Education by Louis Cohen; Lawrence Manion; Keith Morrison
• Qualitative Inquiry and Research Design by John W. Creswell
• Real World Research by Kieran McCartan; Colin Robson
• The Coding Manual for Qualitative Researchers by Johnny Saldana
• Doing Your Literature Review by Jill Jesson; Lydia Matheson; Fiona M. Lacey
• Designing and Conducting Mixed Methods Research by John W. Creswell; Vicki L. Plano Clark
• Doing a Literature Review by Chris Hart
• Educational Research by Robert Burke Johnson; Larry B. Christensen
• Qualitative Research by Sharan B. Merriam; Elizabeth J. Tisdell
• Qualitative Data Analysis: A methods sourcebook by Matthew B. Miles; A. Michael Huberman; Johnny Saldana
• Research Methodology by Ranjit Kumar
• Your Research Project by Nicholas Stephen Robert Walliman; Nicholas Stephen Robert Walliman

References

The following references are provided for further reading:

1. Ary, D., Jacobs, L. C., Razavieh, A., & Sorensen, C. (2014). Introduction to research in education (9th ed.). Wadsworth.
2. Bell, J. (2010). Doing your research project: A guide for first-time researchers in education, health and social science. McGraw-Hill.
3. Bottery, M. & Wright, N. (2019). Writing a watertight thesis: A guide to successful structure and defence. Bloomsbury.
4. Cohen, L., Manion, L., & Morrison, K. (2011). Research methods in education (7th ed). Routledge.
5. Cohen, L., Manion, L., & Morrison, K. (2018). Research methods in education (8th ed). Routledge.
6. Creswell, J. W, & Poth, C. N. (2018). Qualitative inquiry and research design: Choosing among five approaches (4th Ed.). Sage.
7. Creswell, J. W., & Plano Clark, V. L. (2011). Designing and conducting mixed methods research. Sage.
8. Hart, C. (2018). Doing a literature review: Releasing the research imagination. Sage.
9. Jesson, J. K., Matheson, L., & Lacey, F. M. (2011). Doing your literature review: Traditional and systematic techniques. Sage.
10. Johnson, B. R. & Christensen, L. (2020). Educational research: Quantitative, qualitative, and mixed approaches (7th Ed). Sage.
11. Merriam, S. B. & Tisdell, E. K. (2016). Qualitative Research: A guide to design and implementation (4th Ed). Jossey-Bass.
12. Miles, M. B., Huberman, M., & Johnny Saldana, J. (2014). Qualitative data analysis: A methods sourcebook. Sage.
13. Ranjit, K. (2011). Research methodology: A step-by-step guide for beginners. Sage.
14. Robson, C. (2011). Real world research. Wiley.
15. Saldańa, J. (2015). The coding manual for qualitative researchers. Sage.
16. Walliman, N. (2020). Your research project: Designing, planning, and getting started. Sage.