In your own words, describe how you would design a research course for a graduate level counseling program. What assignments would you include? What CACREP standards do you think would be the most essential to address during this course?
Teaching Research and Statistics: Initial Class
What strategies might you use to “hook” counseling students into a research course? What has worked for you in the past? Discuss at least two ideas.
Teaching Research and Statistics: Research Designs
Using the coffee study as an example, describe a “study” you could use to introduce the different types of research designs to graduate counseling students. Describe how this “study” could be explained as a quantitative study and then as a qualitative study.
Teaching Research and Statistics: Statistics
What popular culture theme might you choose to teach statistics? This could be a book, movie, television show, music genre, art, fashion, dance, drama, or game. Discuss one idea of how this popular culture theme might be applied to a statistics lesson (pick one statistics concept, such as hypothesis testing or sampling, and then explore your idea).
This discussion will be a follow-up to the video I posted in the Lecture area. I’d like you to think about the roles played by grades in our educational system. Based on the video discussion as well as your own thinking, talk about what you see as the main purpose and the main roles of grades, and grading, in college education. Consider these questions in your discussion post:
In the age of COVID-19, we as educators are faced with a number of dilemmas with regard to grading. One is pass/fail vs. standard letter grades. Another is making allowances for hardship, such as being subjected to broad changes in housing and education, by doing away with grades (or giving everyone an A).
Please watch this video, and pay special attention to the ethical and professional issues that are raised. We will talk more about those later. Don’t focus on “the right thing to do so” so much as on how these issues relate to our ideas about teaching and about evaluating students.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOP4Hj2KZy0 (Links to an external site.)
• What ethical and professional issues are arising in the discussion of grading in the era of COVID-19?• Based on the video and your own thinking about the issues, what roles do grades play in the educational system?• Are grades necessary? If so, why? If not, what alternate methods would you propose?• What are your ideas about grading during this period of national crisis? Should we change our policies and procedures, stay on course, or modify our practices with regard to grading?
Assignment 3: $5
In a Marriage and family theory class that you are teaching, what are the core ethical concepts you are teaching, that are embedded in the course content? In a Marriage and family theory class, what core ethical reasons are there to teach this developmental content to counselors in training?
