Kriembardis Anastasios, Xanthos Theodoros, Papageorgiou Efstathia, Chalidias Nikolaos, Chaniotis Dimitris, Mpeloykas Apostolos, Fountzoula Christina, Dryllis Georgios, Sigala Maria
This course aims to familiarize students with the integrated completion of a Diploma Thesis related to the field of Education and specifically to Special Education and New Technologies. Specifically, through this course, students will be invited to complete all stages of a research project including the selection or design of methodological tools, data collection, analysis and interpretation of their data. Through the different research stages they will be asked to exercise critical thinking about whether the process they are following is valid, reliable and ethically sound. The Dissertation aims to enhance the students’ research skills and critical thinking, while contributing to their understanding of the research process in the field of Education and Special Education and New Technologies
Specifically, students after successful completion of the course will have acquired basic and sufficient knowledge about
• the formulation of well-defined and investigable research questions and hypotheses
• the development of literature search skills using valid and reliable sources.
• developing skills in synthesising the literature to support their research questions
• the cultivation of skills to develop a high-quality research protocol
• understanding the importance of the reliability and transparency of a research study.
• the development of data collection skills.
• developing analytical and critical thinking skills to interpret results and highlight knowledge gaps
• developing writing skills to present the results and findings of the research