This course covers common topics in educational research such as definitions of research, role of research in education, ethics in conducting research, rationale behind the use of various types of research approaches and designs, Quantitative Research Approach: Correlation designs, survey designs, experimental designs, methods of data collection, Analysis and interpretation of research data; Qualitative Research Approach: the broad purpose of qualitative research, the process of qualitative research, qualitative research approaches, characteristics  of qualitative research, qualitative data collection: threats to qualitative observation and interviews, the narrative research, historical research, ethnographic research, evaluations and policy research, action research, grounded theory design, narrative research design; Mixed methods designs, criteria for developing a mixed method design, triangulation design, characteristics of mixed designs, steps in conducting mixed designs, evaluation of a mixed method study.