Focus is on assessment of creativity, research on creativity and its applications to education, development of environments conducive to the development of creativity, and heuristics which are designed to encourage creativity. I Topics range from descriptive to inferential techniques. Specific procedures include the logic of hypotheses testing, t tests, chi square, correlation, and simple linear regression. Statistics Laboratory Designed to familiarize students with the use of the computer in Educational Studies. Topics include descriptive statistics, correlation, regression, analysis of variance, and factor analysis.
Students run programs weekly, and interpret the output in written reports.
Educational applications focus on program planning, monitoring student progress, fiscal analysis, budgeting and inventory control. Standard and customized reporting is emphasized. Students apply this knowledge in small group and individual projects, by performing needs assessments, specifying instructional objectives, designing instructional activities, developing criterion referenced testing, and executing formative evaluation of the instructional products. Skills learned are applicable in both academic and training environments. Permission of instructor Software tools which can be used in support of instruction are addressed in this course, including graphics tools, digitized audio synthesized speech, and digitized video images.