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These four 30-minute videos review the fundamentals of doctoral-level research that were covered during Residency. The first video covers how to find a viable topic and ways to stay organized. The second video explores searching skills, how to find the best databases to conduct your searches, how to generate keywords to search comprehensively, and how to narrow your results to focused, relevant articles and resources you can use now. The third one discusses dissertations, why they are such a valuable tool, how to locate them by degree, topic, capstone, and chair, and tracking down resources from their reference list. Finally, the last video reviews theories and theorists, where to discover theories, how to track down seminal work, and how to find examples of research using specific theories.
Video: Education Research Skills for the Capstone Part I: Identifying a Doctoral Research Topic & Organizational Tools (YouTube)
Recorded March 2020 (30 min 55 sec) Transcript
Video: Education Research Skills for the Capstone Part II: Search Strategies (YouTube)
Recorded March 2020 (26 min 38 sec) Transcript
Video: Education Research Skills for the Capstone Part III: Dissertations (YouTube)
Recorded April 2020 (28 min 09 sec) Transcript
Video: Education Research Skills for the Capstone Part IV: Theories and Theorists(YouTube)
Recorded April 2020 (28 min 43 sec) Transcript