teaching and assessing graduate students' research skills in english for art education purposes
A research training module was designed to help graduate students locate, read and comprehend art abstracts and full-text articles that they need for their assignments, term papers and theses. At the end of the training module, the students were posttested. They were given individual research projects for which they had to select the search terms, define the searching strategy, go online, log into the electronic database, conduct simple and advanced searches, print and save the actual records obtained. The posttest required the students to locate art dissertation abstracts and journal articles. They were asked to skim through sample art abstracts and journal articles and locate the aim of the study, type of instrument used in collecting the data, the subjects, and results and give a summary translation in Arabic. A detailed description of content and research skills tested are given. (As Provided)