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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:
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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.Syllabus
2.Readings
3.Submitting assignments
Please bear with me:
• New equipment
• New software
• New technologies
All at once, at start of semester.
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 it5up…
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2
5
25
8
25
25
95
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 online 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/inde
x.cfm.
How can I reach you???
• Please go to “myUNM”
(my.unm.edu) and check your email 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.