Work in progress - research methods: teaching students how to learn about learning

In order to become skilled in research methods, students must learn how to learn. Learning how to research is not easy, especially for undergraduate students. Studies have shown that college students do not know how to use learning strategies, even in cases where they recognize that they need to learn. In order to better prepare students to think and apply knowledge to new problems, the computer science department at the University of Mary Washington decided to offer a course in research methods. The course was designed to teach students about learning strategies that they can apply across the computing discipline and beyond. This paper describes the process that was used to create a new research methods course, the details related to the first offering of the course, and preliminary findings on how the course changed students' perception of research.