Introduction to Inquiry and Research in Education

Grades

3.54

Average grade awarded in EDUC 35. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were. i The mean of every letter grade the registrar has published for this course, pooled across every instructor who has taught it. It is not shrunk toward anything, because a course average cannot be pulled toward itself. Standard error 0.021.

The registrar's own records: 876 grades over 13 terms, Fall 2021 to Fall 2025. 1 of those terms is a summer session, and summer sessions are counted here. Every instructor is pooled here. The table below splits them, and term averages across those 13 terms ran 3.40 to 3.73.

By instructor

“Predicted” is shrunk toward the course average, which is itself shrunk toward the department, so an instructor with a handful of students sits near the course mean rather than topping the list.

dibs measures outcomes: grades, seats, how fast a class fills. For what a class is like to sit in, BruinWalk has the reviews.

Reviews for EDUC 35 ↗

In Falls

Ran in 5 of the last 5 Falls.

From the terms dibs holds, which start in Fall 2021 and exclude summer. A department can run a course in a quarter it never has before.

From the registrar's catalog

Lecture, two hours; discussion, two hours. Introduction to empirical and analytical educational research. Intended for undergraduates interested in learning how to find, interpret, and evaluate research that investigates important questions around education and education systems. Overview of multiple methods of conceptualizing inquiry and gathering evidence, including qualitative (e.g., ethnographic, semi-structured interviews, case study), quantitative (e.g., surveys, experimental, descriptive), and mixed methods approaches. Introduction to software processing and analysis of data. Highlights ethics of conducting research in social sciences, and norms of conducting and reporting research in the field of education. Letter grading.

Sections in Fall 2026

You enroll in the discussion, not the lecture, so a discussion's status is the one that decides whether you get in. A lecture can read open while every discussion under it is full.

Seat counts as of 03 Sep 12:47: the oldest of these 5 readings. The registrar publishes hourly and dibs reads what it can each hour, so a row can be older than that.

• Lec 1 T 4:00pm-5:50pm

  Open

  Eagan, K.

  3.57

  this instructor · 345 grades

  22 seats left. 83 of 105 enrolled low risk i A guess about whether this will still be here at your enrollment pass, from how full it is now and how fast classes like it have filled before. Seat risk is a prediction and seat status is what the registrar said: they are two things, and this page keeps them apart.

  limited limited to: Education and Social Transformation Premajors, and New Transfers Only: restrictions read 13 hours ago

  4 discussions, all open.

  This limit is on the class, so it applies to all 4 discussions below.

  › Every discussion, with its time and seats (4)

  • Dis 1A

    R 12:00pm-1:50pm · Moore Hall 3320

    Open

    1 seat left.

    25 of 26 enrolled

  • Dis 1B

    R 4:00pm-5:50pm · Moore Hall 3320

    Open

    5 seats left.

    22 of 27 enrolled

  • Dis 1C

    R 12:00pm-1:50pm · Moore Hall 3027

    Open

    4 seats left.

    22 of 26 enrolled

  • Dis 1D

    R 4:00pm-5:50pm · Moore Hall 3140

    Open

    12 seats left.

    14 of 26 enrolled

Final enrollment, averaged across each term's sections: between 35 and 114 a term over 12 terms, summer excluded, most recently 114 in Fall 2025. That is the shape across years, not this term, which is above.

Seats over time in Fall 2026

How each lecture has filled since dibs first saw it.