Every candidate for the M.Ed. degree must successfully complete their final project or thesis in order to fulfill the research requirement.  To successfully complete this course, students must demonstrate graduate-level competence in research, analysis, and writing by completing a professional quality literature review on an approved topic.

This Literature Review thesis will contain the following four APA level 1 section headings:

Introduction

Review of the Literature

Discussion

Conclusion

In addition, there will be a title page and an abstract at the beginning, and a References section at the end, all in correct APA 6 formatting.

Students in this course will demonstrate the following competencies:

1. Graduate level writing skills.
2. Ability to articulate a research problem or question and establish why such research is important.
3. Ability to identify primary source research on an identified problem or question.
4. Knowledge and understanding of both qualitative and quantitative primary source research literature, and the ability to discern and analyze the results.
5. Ability to read, to understand, and to professionally discuss primary source research literature.
6. Ability to write a professional literature review paper using APA 6 formatting guidelines.

Publication manual of the American Psychological Association (6th ed.). (2011). Washington, D.C.: American Psychological Association.