Seminal Works:

For our purposes, the textbook being used in the course is the primary source of information on educational research:

Ormrod, J.E. (2003). Educational Psychology: Developing Learners (4th ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Merrill Prentice Hall. Chapter 1, pg. 1-16.

Additionally, you may want to consider investing some time in reading the following:

Latta, A. (1996, Spring/Summer). Teacher as researcher: selected resources. Teaching Education, 8, 155-60.