Title of Course: Research Methods in Education

Credit Hours: 3

Course Description This course is designed for B.Ed honors candidates to prepare them to situate
themselves as researching professionals and at the same time enhance their own professional practice.
Students will engage in a

critical analysis of different research work and relate it to their own context. The units provides students
with the opportunity to engage with the research literature and to establish how different researchers
techniques help improve the overall classroom situation

Specific Objectives

At the end of the course, the learners will be able to Discuss the meaning, nature & scope of research
in education Situate themselves as researching professionals Conduct research in different
educational settings Write research report and present it effectively

Course Outline

Unit 1 The Nature of Educational Research 1.1. Definitions of Educational Research 1.2. Scope and
importance 1.3. Scientific method 1.4. Research problem and topic 1.5. Characteristics of research
problem

Unit 2 The Researching professional 2.1. Qualities of a researcher 2.2. Teacher as researcher 2.3.
Research ethics

Unit 3 Types of Educational Research 3.1. Descriptive Research 3.2. Experimental Research 3.3.
Historical Research 3.4. Action Research

Unit 4 Techniques of Reviewing Literature 4.1. Primary sources 4.2. Secondary sources
Unit 5 Methodology 5.1. Population 5.2. Sampling 5.3. Instrument 5.4. Data collection procedure

Unit 6 Data Analysis 6.1. Descriptive 6.2. Inferential

Unit 7 Report Writing 7.1. Writing formats & Presentation 7.2. Referencing

Recommended Books:

Best & James (2003) Research in Education Crtswell, J. W (2009. Research Design”, London: Sage
Publications. Fraenkel, J. & Norman, E. (2005) How to Design and Evaluation Research (8th edition) L.R.
Gay. (2001) Educational Research.
Title of Course Educational Psychology

Credit Hours: 3

Course Description

The purpose of this course is to develop learner’s insight. Its unique approach helps students teachers to
understand different psychological concepts by encouraging them to examine their own learning and
then showing them how to apply these concepts as teachers. This course concentrates on core
concepts and principles. It gives readers an in-depth understanding of the central ideas of educational
psychology.

Learning Outcomes

By the end of the course students should be able to: describe in detail the multidisciplinary nature of
educational psychology familiarize students with basic theories derived from various discipline which
are related to education develop critical thinking about and appreciation of education psychology as
multidisciplinary subject familiarize with the concept of test development

Course Outline

Unit 1 C

1.1. Schools of thoughts 1.2. Structuralism 1.3. Functionalism 1.4. Behaviorism 1.5. Nature and function
of educational Psychology 1.6. Four way teaching agenda of educational psychology

Unit 2 Fundamentals of Human Development 2.1. Overview of Growth and Development 2.2. General
nature of growth and Development 2.3. Factors influencing Child Development Unit 3 Learning 3.1.
Definition of learning 3.2. Learning theories 3.3. Learning Process

Unit 4 Information Processing 4.1. What is Memory 4.2. Parts of memory 4.3. What is Forgetting 4.4.
Methods to improve memory

Unit 5 Intelligence 5.1. Concept of intelligence 5.2. Theories of intelligence 5.3. Individual difference
5.4. Intelligence Testing
Unit 6 Measurement and evaluation in educational Psychology 6.1. Test 6.2. Characteristics of Test 6.3.
Reliability 6.4. Validity 6.5. Items Analysis

Recommended Books

Ormrod, Jeane, (2010) Educational Psychology: Developing Learners: Pearson

Santrock, John W., (2001) Educational Psychology, USA. Mc-GrawHill Anita Woolfolk; Educational
Psychology, USA.