COURSE UNIT TITLE

: DESIGNING RESEARCH IN MATHEMATICS EDUCATION

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
FMM 5035 DESIGNING RESEARCH IN MATHEMATICS EDUCATION ELECTIVE 3 0 0 10

Offered By

Mathematics Teacher Education

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR IŞIKHAN UĞUREL

Offered to

Mathematics Teacher Education

Course Objective

To comprehend how to conduct mathematics education research and the process of the reseach (including planning, application, data analysis and writing the report). Preparing and presenting the this kind of seminar.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   To comprehend the general process and design schema of a research.
2   To be able to read and analyze the research examples in detail.
3   to comprhend how to design a research and to develop research examples
4   Preparing and presenting a mathematics education research.
5   preparing more than one seminar related to the process of a research, and connecting those.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Concepts regarding Research, research process, and some research related
2 The importance of a seminar in academic development
3 The organization of a research in general
4 General approaches in doing academic design
5 Comparing the difference of the studies in terms of structure and content
6 Preparing and presenting a seminar related to research design
7 Midterm Exam
8 Preparing and presenting a seminar related to research design
9 Preparing and presenting a seminar related to research design
10 Preparing and presenting a seminar related to research design
11 An application of developing research design
12 An application of developing research design
13 An application of developing research design
14 An application of developing research design
15 Final Exam

Recomended or Required Reading

-- Clark, W. (1989). On the Dialectical Origins of the Research Seminar. In History of Science, Vol. 27, Part 1, No. 96, pp. 111-154.
-- Adam, K. (2004). Modelling Success: Enhancing International Postgraduate Research Students' Self efficacy for Research Seminar Presentations, Higher Education Research & Development, 23(2), 115-30.
-- Gahagan, J. S. (2002). A Historical and Theoretical Framework for the First-Year Seminar. In National Resource Center for The First-Year Experience and Students in Transition, The 2000 national survey of first-year seminar programs: Continuing innovations in the collegiate curriculum (Monograph No. 35) (pp. 5-10).

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTEG MIDTERM GRADE
2 ASG ASSIGNMENT
3 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE
4 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTEG * 0.30 +ASG* 0.10 + FCG* 0.60
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTEG * 0.30 + ASG * 0.10 + RST * 0.60


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Ofis Tel: 0 232 420 4882-12429
E-mail: isikhan.ugurel@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 3 39
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 13 3 39
Preparation for midterm exam 1 15 15
Preparation for final exam 1 15 15
Preparing assignments 8 7 56
Project Preparation 1 70 70
Final 1 3 3
Midterm 1 2 2
Quiz etc. 5 1 5
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 244

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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