CRCRTH 693 - Action Research for Educational, Professional, and Personal Change, Fall 2007

Action Research for Educational, Professional and Personal Change Professor Peter Taylor, Ph.D. Critical and Creative Thinking University of Massachusetts - Boston Course Structure: Two and a half hour long classes - once a week

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Course Description

This course covers techniques for and critical thinking about the evaluation of changes in educational practices and policies in schools, organizations, and informal contexts. Topics include quantitative and qualitative methods for design and analysis, participatory design of practices and policies, institutional learning, the wider reception or discounting of evaluations, and selected case studies, including those arising from semester-long student projects.