COURSE UNIT TITLE

: LITERATURE REVIEW, METHODOLOGICAL DESIGNS AND APPLICATIONS IN MATHEMATICS EDUCATION

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
FMM 5048 LITERATURE REVIEW, METHODOLOGICAL DESIGNS AND APPLICATIONS 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

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR MELIKE YIĞIT KOYUNKAYA

Offered to

Mathematics Teacher Education

Course Objective

The main purpose of this course is to introduce the literature review in the field of mathematics education to graduate students, to give detailed information about qualitative research types and to improve their knowledge and skills by seeing various applications on these issues.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Introducing how to do the literature in mathematics education
2   Research about implications for literature review in mathematics education
3   Introducing methodical design for a research problem in mathematics education
4   Methodical design applications for a research problem in mathematics education
5   Identifying a research problem in mathematics education, reviewing the related literature and designing methods for this problem

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Week 1 What is literature review How is the literature review done
2 Week 2 Literature review implications in a specific subject in mathematics education
3 Week 3 How to design a method of a research within a particular subject Examples of methods
4 Week 4 Basic Qualitative Research
5 Week 5 Case Study Design
6 Week 6 Case study examples in mathematics education
7 Week 7 Grounded theory
8 Week 8 Grounded theory examples in mathematics education
9 Week 9 Action Research
10 Week 10 Action research examplels in mathematics education
11 Week 11 Teaching experiment methodology
12 Week 12 Teaching experiment examples in mathematics education
13 Week 13 Lesson study
14 Week 14 Lesson study examples in mathematics education
15 Week 15 Presentations for final assignments

Recomended or Required Reading

Textbooks(s)/References/Materials:
Yin R. K. (2018). Case study research and applications: design and methods, 6 th edition. London: Sage.
Patton, M. Q. (2002). Qualitative research and evaluative methods (3rd ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Merriam, S. B., & Tisdell, E. J. (2016). Qualitative research: A guide to design and implementation (4th edition). San Francisco, CA: John Wiley & Sons.
Yıldırım, A., & Şimşek, H. (2013). Sosyal bilimlerde nitel araştırma yöntemleri. Seçkin yayıncılık.
O'Leary, Z. (2017). The essential guide to doing your research project. Sage.
Bryman, A. (2016). Social research methods. Oxford university press.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Discussion, group work, lecturing.

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 ASG ASSIGNMENT
2 PRS PRESENTATION
3 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE ASG * 0.50 + PRS * 0.50


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)

To be announced.

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 14 3 42
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 14 10 140
Preparation for quiz etc. 1 4 4
Preparing assignments 14 2 28
Preparing presentations 14 3 42
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 256

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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