Ed Rem 420, or 421, or consent of instructor. A course to develop administrative, interpretive, and reporting skills in the use of individually administered cognitive ability tests such as the Wechsler scales, the StanfordBinet, and similar instruments. A course on the principles and procedures for conducting survey research. Topics include forming questions and scales, survey design, sampling methods, data preparation and analysis, and presentation of results. Readings will address the methods, politics, and ethics of action research.
Enrollment requires access to a field setting.
Ed Rem 431 or consent of instructor. An advanced educational research methods course in alternative analysis procedures to classical parametric statistics. Nonparametric methods are surveyed and their data requirements compared to their parametric counterparts. Educational research problems appropriate to or adaptable to these methods are studied. A course on the principles and procedures for assessing the quality and effectiveness of programs, projects, and materials related to planned interventions and system changes in educational settings.