Graduate Program

Principles of human growth and development across the life span and implications for education.

The basic principles of learning, particularly cognition, motivation and assessment, and their application to classroom situations.

This course provides a theoretical and practical foundation for college-level teaching for undergraduates serving in the role of Peer Learning Facilitators and tutors. Topics include: instructional strategies; motivation; professional development; ethics; feedback and questioning techniques.

Provides educators with skills in assessment and knowledge of issues in measurement and assessment. Skills necessary to understand and communicate large-scale test information are also developed.

Overview of quantitative and qualitative research methods for research consumers. Emphasis is on locating published research and reading research reports with critical understanding of researchers’ methods of data collection and analysis.

Non-technical overview of statistical methods in educational research; computation is not covered. Emphasis on developing critical understanding of statistical methods and results when reading and interpreting research, not on producing research or calculating statistics.

Pre- or corequisite: 500.

Principles of human growth and development, which include cognitive, psychosocial and physical development across the life span, with a particular focus on educational implications.

Lab-based instruction of R including R functions, packages, and resources available for data management and analysis, basic operations (e.g. data importation, management, and examination), and analyses.

Corequisite: One credit hour with EDPY 603.

Offered on a CR/NC basis only.

Provides students with skills for designing quantitative educational research, including identifying a problem, reviewing literature, formulating hypotheses, considering ethical issues, selecting participants, selecting or constructing measures, making valid inferences, writing reports.

Research and theory in learning, particularly cognition, motivation and assessment, with emphasis on educational implications.

Foundations of statistical methods for research producers. Covers sampling methods, descriptive statistics, standard scores, distributions, estimation, statistical significance testing, t-tests, correlation, chi-square and effect size using statistical software and computation.

Pre- or corequisite: 505.

Covers survey research from item writing and survey development to sampling, administration, analysis and reporting. Emphasizes applications and interpretations in educational and social science research and use and interpretation of statistical software for survey research.

Prerequisite: 511.

The course promotes understanding of current theories and research in motivation with an emphasis on applications in educational settings. Strategies for establishing motivation-rich environments will be developed.

(Also offered as LING, PSYC 565)

The role of language in human cognition is approached from a sociocultural framework. Topics: semiotic systems, languages of the mind, categorization, problem solving, and cognitive pluralism.

Provides educators with skills in assessment and knowledge of issues in measurement and assessment. Skills necessary to understand and communicate large-scale test information are also developed.

A survey of classical and modern approaches to measurement and assessment as applied to education and/or psychology. Includes measurement and scaling, reliability and validity, traditional and alternative assessment methods.

Prerequisite: 511.

This course provides an introduction to the psychological development of women and girls using contemporary and emerging theoretical frameworks. The course will also explore qualitative research methods and consider the implications of cultural and empirical constructions of gender for social and educational policy and practice.

Prerequisite: an introductory course in the psychology of personality. An introductory course in women studies is recommended but not essential.

Prerequisite: PSY 331.

Faculty-supervised investigative study that results in the development and writing of a master’s thesis.

Offered on a CR/NC basis only.

Includes factorial analysis of variance (ANOVA), planned comparisons, post hoc tests, repeated measures designs, and regression analysis. Emphasis on solving applied problems using statistical analysis with computer software.

Prerequisite: 511.

Corequisite: 504.

Includes bivariate regression, multiple regression with continuous and categorical independent variables and interactions, orthogonal and nonorthogonal designs and selected post hoc analyses. Computer analysis, conceptual understanding and applications to educational research are stressed.

Prerequisite: 603.

Theory, application, interpretation of Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) techniques. Includes covariance structures, path diagrams, path analysis, model identification, estimation and testing; confirmatory factor analysis, structural equation modeling and linear structural relations using latent variables.

Prerequisite: 604 or 606.

The fundamentals of multilevel regression models, applications of such models to both cross-sectional and longitudinal data, and a survey of several advanced multilevel regression models.

Prerequisite: 604.

An examination of selected research and theory on learning and cognition in specific domains with emphasis on application to classrooms or other learning situations.

Examination of selected topics in research and theory relevant to human growth and development, including implications for instruction and child rearing. May be repeated once for credit when topics differ.

This course provides an empirically-based theoretical and practical foundation for college-level teaching. Topics include: instructional strategies; teaching technologies; assessment; professional development; ethics; teaching as part of overall professional identity.

Seminar introduces students to current research topics and professional issues in Educational Psychology.

Seminar introduces advanced students to current research designs and controversies, statistical analysis techniques and computer applications.

Prerequisite: 603.

Faculty-supervised investigative study that results in the development and writing of a doctoral dissertation.

Offered on a CR/NC basis only.