Research Provides students with skills for designing quantitative education research. Topics include identifying a problem, reviewing the literature, formulating hypotheses, considering ethical issues, selecting participants, selecting or constructing measures, making valid inferences, and writing reports. The role of language in human cognition is approached from a socio-cultural framework. Topics include measurement and scaling, reliability, validity, traditional and alternative assessment methods. An advanced statistics course covering factorial analysis of variance, planned comparisons, post hoc tests, trend analysis, effect size and strength of association measures, and repeated measures of designs.
Emphasis is placed on solving applied problems using statistical analysis with computer software.
1-3 credit hours. Advanced statistical techniques including discriminant function analysis of variance, canonical correlation, principal components analysis and exploratory factor analysis. Emphasis on use and interpretation of computer software. The course is offered for three units of graduate credit each 1-2 years. Examination of selected topics in research and theory relevant to human growth and development, including implications for instruction and childrearing.