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Announcements

• Welcome!

• SPCD 505

• 2 textbooks AND readings

• research505

• Universal design

• Don’t fear the syllabus…

Julia Ann Scherba de Valenzuela

Inquiring Minds Want to Know

1.What are you drinking?–Tea

2.What are you wearing?–Shoes

3.What are you doing?– Listening

What you need to know:

HARD class:– Amount of work– Deep engagement – New vocabulary– Temporary incomplete understanding– Academic struggles– Emotional struggles– Focus on YOU!

Required Books

• APA manual – 6th edition

• McMillan, J. H., & Wergin, J. F. (2010). Understanding and evaluating educational research (4th ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson.

Required Readings

On learn.unm.edu. Can be downloaded and either printed or saved to your hard drive or a portable storage device (i.e. flash disk) at campus computer pod

Don’t Panic!

Help is on the way!!

When in doubt…

Check the Syllabus!

INSTRUCTOR WebSite

Class outlines for every class session.

Links from each outline to the overheads and handouts.

Suggestions of additional readings.

Links to relevant web sites.

Writing resources.

learn.unm.edu

1.Syllabus2.Readings3.Submitting assignments

Please bear with me:

• New equipment• New software• New technologies

All at once, at start of semester.

ARGHH!

Office Hours• Mondays, 4:00-6:00, HH 254• Thursdays, 4:00-5:30, Skype (voice only)• Fridays, 4:00-6:00, Satellite on University,

just north of Lomas.• Make an appointment beforehand.• Tell me a range of days and times and I’ll let

you know when my next available appointment is.

Complete Syllabus

Course schedule. Course design, including

course requirements and grading.

Course policies. Assignment descriptions and

grading criteria.

Assignments: Points:

1) Interlibrary loan 5

2)  APA homework 2+

3) Research ethics on-line training 5

4) Research method description paper 25

5) Research method description presentation  8

6) Naturalistic research concepts paper 25

7) Summary & evaluation of 3 articles 25

Add it up… 5 2 525 8252595

+

ILL assignment (5 pts)

• Request a journal article from ILL.• Forward me the e-mail that says your article

is ready to be downloaded from the ILL system.

APA homework

Next week in class, we will work APA style for citations and references. Please check the on-line class outline for the handout that we will be using. The homework will follow up on that activity and I will provide copies of the needed homework handout.

Research Ethics Training

The links to the on-line CITI training is available on the course website, in the syllabus (e-mailed to the class), and can also be found at: • http://research.unm.edu/IRBmaincampus/

index.cfm.

How can I reach you???

• Please go to “myUNM” (my.unm.edu) and check your e-mail settings.

• “Preferred email” • Any e-mail address okay.• Syllabus, announcements, etc.

Quick Write

How do you define “research”?

What is research?

What are different ways of knowing?

How does research differ from other ways

of knowing?

What counts

as evidence

?

Empirical?

Redefining research as disciplined

inquiry

Looking ahead…

APA refresher and defining research

Note: Set up UNMNetID & change e-mail in Banner if needed.

Please take a minute for the minute paper.

And don’t forget to turn your phone back on.