Course Descriptions

Course Offerings Schedule

ResEv 550 - Educational Research. Prerequisite: 9 credits in education. 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. [Click here for the latest syllabus]

ResEv 552 - Basic Educational Statistics.Prerequisite: ResEv 550. Statistical concepts and procedures for analyzing educational data. Descriptive statistics, correlation, t tests, and chi square with computer applications. [Click here for the latest syllabus]

ResEv 553 - Intermediate Educational Statistics. Prerequisite: ResEv 552 or Stat 401. A continuation of statistical concepts and procedures for analyzing educational data, using multiple regression and logistic regression. [Click here for the latest syllabus]

ResEv 554 - Intermediate Research Methods.Prerequisite: ResEv 553 or Stat 404. Intermediate quantitative research methodology in preparation for carrying out thesis and dissertation research, with an emphasis on estimation of causal effects using observational data. [Click here for the latest syllabus]

ResEv 570 - Surveys in Educational Research. Prerequisite: 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. [Click here for the latest syllabus]

ResEv 580 - Qualitative Research Methodology.Prerequisite: ResEv 550. Qualitative research in human sciences, emphasizing education; principles of qualitative inquiry, including theoretical foundations, research design, and fieldwork. [Click here for the latest syllabus]

ResEv 591. Supervised Field Experience. Repeatable. Prerequisite: 9 credits graduate work. Supervised on-the-job field experience. [Click here for the latest syllabus]

ResEv 597 - Program Evaluation.Prerequisite: ResEv 550. Evaluation models and professional standards. Techniques of evaluating educational programs. Emphasis on both theory and practical applications. [Click here for the latest syllabus]

ResEv 620X - College Access in Policy, Practice, and Research. Exploration of the plurality of frameworks used to conceptualize college access as a social problem. (for research, policy, and practice). Development of applications of understanding of college access frameworks to policy, practice, and research.[Click here for the latest syllabus]

ResEv 680 - Prerequisite: 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; integrates core concepts of qualitative inquiry such as fieldwork, data, validity, and representation. [Click here for the latest syllabus]

ResEv 681X - Analytical Approaches in Qualitative Inquiry. Prerequisite: ResEv 580. 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). [Click here for the latest syllabus]