1. Research 3712, Week 1: Mission and Overview
1) Take inventory
2) Share expectations
3) Frame the course
4) Offer challenges
Assignment: think about what interests you in CJFS and visit

2. Contact Info
Name
Phone #(s)
Post-schooling plans
Unique to help remember you
When you think “Research”…
 in December because…

3. Course Objectives Become a better consumer of research
Be a better producer of research
Appreciate research
*Bottom-line: the research process is similar to a trial in the CJ system

4. Research Process Pick topic Review literature Choose design
Build theory
Get evidence
Analyze data
Share knowledge

5. Purposes of Research
Explore
Describe
Explain
Evaluate

7. Elements to Effective Learning/Teaching
They must be:
Joyous
Active
Curious
Applied

8. Learning Should Be Joyous
“When we learn with pleasure we never forget.” Louis Mercier
"It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge." Albert Einstein

9. Learning Should Be Active
"Reading is to the mind, what exercise is to the body." Sir Richard Steele
"Tell me and I forget. Show me and I remember. Involve me and I understand." Chinese Proverb

10. Learning Requires Curiosity
"Not to know is bad; not to wish to know is worse." African Proverb
"To every answer you can find a new question." Yiddish Proverb

11. We Must Apply What We Learn
“Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Facts can produce good only if they “…are matched by the desire and ability to find out what they mean and where they lead.” Norman Cousins