This advanced course enables teachers to become more informed users and designers of educational research. Teachers begin the process of planning and implementing their own classroom or school-based inquiry. Through activities integrated in their own research process, teacher learn more about how to locate, value, and synthesize other relevant research; select and employ appropriate types of qualitative or quantitative methods of data gathering and analyze a variety of descriptive data. Teachers complete the process in EDUC 589B.Prerequisite: Completion of student teaching if in Teacher Credential program