Research Methods is a course being developed and taught for UTeach. The course aims both to give prospective teachers an understanding of how research is performed, and to give them useful teaching tools for the secondary environment. Goals for this course include:

• Carry out simple projects, inquiries, or investigations that illustrate the process that transforms curiosity into scientific research.
• Learn about the various forms of research ranging from deductive to inductive, from controlled environments to observations, from pure to applied, and from theoretical to experimental and computational.
• Employ statistics in a research setting.
• Become comfortable with software packages useful for analyzing data or constructing models.
• Design a small-scale research investigation, interacting with instructors, but without the explicit guidance typically provided by laboratory manuals.
• Learn about the social context of research, including the research literature, research communities, the funding process, the publication process, and the way scientific communities react to new ideas.
• Incorporate knowledge from earlier courses into flexible, independent, scientific problem-solving ability.