Courses
Courses primarily for graduate students, open to qualified undergraduates:
(3-0) Cr. 3. F.S.SS.
Understanding the nature of quantitative and qualitative research; reviewing the literature; developing research problems and questions; research designs; data collection and analysis issues; evaluating research studies.
(3-0) Cr. 3. F.
Statistical concepts and procedures for analyzing educational data; descriptive statistics, correlation, t tests, and chi square with computer applications.
(3-0) Cr. 3. S.
Prereq: RESEV 552 or equivalent
Examination of survey design and administration in educational research. Designing surveys; developing, evaluating, and asking survey questions; survey sampling; measuring survey reliability and validity; administering mail and web surveys; decreasing survey nonresponse; conducting post-collection survey data processing; conducting survey research with integrity.
(3-0) Cr. 3.
Qualitative research in the human sciences, emphasizing education; principles of qualitative inquiry, including theoretical foundations, research design, and fieldwork.
Cr. 1-3. Repeatable. F.S.SS.
Prereq: Graduate standing
Guided reading and in research and evaluation study on special topic.
Cr. 1-3. Repeatable. F.S.SS.
Prereq: Graduate standing
Intensive, concentrated exposure to a special educational research or evaluation problem.
(3-0) Cr. 3. S.
Prereq: RESEV 550
Evaluation models and professional standards. Techniques of evaluating educational programs. Emphasis on both theory and practical applications.
Courses for graduate students:
Cr. 1-3. Repeatable.
(4-0) Cr. 1-3. SS.
Exploration of the plurality of frameworks used to conceptualize college access as a social problem (for research, policy, and practice). Development of application of understandings of college access frameworks to policy, practice, and research.
(3-0) Cr. 3. S.
Prereq: RESEV 580
An intensive reading and discussion course focusing on contemporary methodological theory for qualitative inquiry; examines epistemological, ontological, axiological and theoretical assumptions and their consequences for qualitative inquiry in the human sciences; interrogates core concepts of qualitative inquiry such as fieldwork, data, validity and representation.
(3-0) Cr. 3. F.
Prereq: RESEV 580 or equivalent
Conceptions of data and analysis in qualitative methodologies; focus on applied topics in qualitative data analysis, such as narrative analysis, ethnographic analysis, life history analysis, postmodern analyses, discourse analysis, arts-based analytical strategies, constructing data; combination format of reading and discussion seminars and classroom workshops focusing on individual research projects (not for thesis or dissertation).
Cr. 1-3. Repeatable.
Prereq: Graduate standing
Guided reading and/or study on special topics of an advanced nature.
Cr. arr. Repeatable. F.S.SS.