Research METHODOLOGIES

A ONE CREDIT MODULE WITHIN D.MIN 905 A (LEARNING THROUGH MINISTRY PRACTICE)

prepared by William Badke (REVISED October 2012)

INTRODUCTION TO ASSIGNMENTS

This course consists of five assignments on a topic of your choice. Ideally your topic should be a research assignment for another course you or taking (or will take) or an aspect of your upcoming dissertation project. There is no final examination in this module.

The textbook for the course is:

William B. Badke, Research Strategies: Finding your Way Through the Information Fog, 4th edition (Bloomington, IN: iUniverse.com, 2011).
 

Details:

You will be doing a set of assignments. Before you go too far, please consider the following principles:

Process is more important than product. This course majors on the development of effective and efficient strategies for research. As such, I want to know how you got to your results even more than I want to see the results. I need to be assured that you have grasped the strategies and that you are using them well. Thus you will often be asked to provide information on the methods you used to get the results you reported.

You are not alone.  If you have questions, or even if you're just feeling uncertain about elements of the module, please contact Professor Badke at badke@twu.

Follow directions in your assignments exactly, not because your professor is a hard taskmaster but because proper learning demands that you pay attention to details. Just do everything step by step, and you should be fine.

Be prepared for a lot of feedback from your professor on your assignments.  It is very important that you pay close attention to assignment feedback, because it is a large part of your learning experience in this course.

 

Assignments

The assignments in the course are built around one selected topic, which you may choose:

Note that you should stay with the same topic throughout the course unless otherwise directed.