1. CJFS 3712 Research, Week 1: Mission and Overview
1) Take inventory
2) Share expectations
3) Frame the course
4) Offer some challenges
Tasks: grow ideas, get book, and surf

2. Contact Info
Name
Phone #(s)
Interest/Post-schooling Plans
Unique to help me remember you
“Research”~…
 in May because…

3. What is “Research”?
Action / Process: think trial or investigation; Scientific Method seven steps
Qualities: Research is social, systemmatic, and useful

4. Research Process Pick topic or ? Review literature Use theory
Choose methods
Get tangible evidence
Analyze
Share / advise

6. Course Goals Demystify research: take away its awe
Appreciate research: realize its role and value
U2 research: Use and Understand it

7. Purposes of Research
Explore
Describe
Explain
Evaluate

8. Learning and Teaching are Best When There is… :
Joy
Engagement
Relevancy
Curiosity

9. 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

10. Engaged, Active Learning is Best
"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

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

12. 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