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3.00 Credits
Supervised research on an approved topic in applied child development. Variable credit. Please see departmental website for specific details. This course is offered during the following semesters: Fall Semester
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3.00 Credits
Supervised research on an approved topic in applied child development. Variable credit. Please see departmental website for specific details. This course is offered during the following semesters: Spring Semester
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3.00 Credits
Guided individual study of an approved topic. Please contact the department for detailed information. Please see departmental website for specific details. This course is offered during the following semesters: Fall Semester Spring Semester
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3.00 Credits
Guided individual study of an approved topic. Please contact the department for detailed information. Please see departmental website for specific details. This course is offered during the following semesters: Spring Semester
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3.00 Credits
Guided research on a topic that has been approved as a suitable subject for a master's thesis. Please see departmental website for specific details. This course is offered during the following semesters: Fall Semester
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3.00 Credits
Guided research on a topic that has been approved as a suitable subject for a master's thesis. Please see departmental website for specific details. This course is offered during the following semesters: Spring Semester
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3.00 Credits
(Cross-listed as Urban and Environmental Policy 256.) Purposes for and types and techniques of program evaluation. Study of the evaluation process, including design, implementation, and dissemination, with focus on development of relevant data collection, analysis, and report-writing skills. Emphasis on learning to match programs to evaluation models, optimizing eventual evaluation utilization. Students design evaluations for existing program. This course is offered during the following semesters: Fall Semester Spring Semester
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3.00 Credits
Philosophical, historical, and past and current theoretical foundations of applied developmental science. Topics include life-span human development; action theory; life-course sociology; bioecological human development; developmental systems theories, applications to children, youth, families, and communities and to American higher education, and civil society. Prerequisites Prior course work in developmental theory and permission of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
Introduction to multivariate statistics, with a special emphasis on methods for studying change and the effects of context. Topics: general linear hypothesis testing, logistic regression, multilevel models, cluster analysis, principal components analysis, and exploratory factor analysis. Focus on using computer spreadsheet Excel and a statistical package such as SPSS or SAS to analyze real data with statistical techniques introduced through lectures, interpreting results, and writing about the findings. A good background in multiple regression analysis, including use and interpretation of dummy variables and interactions, is required. Prerequisites Two semesters of statistics and data analysis methods. This course is offered during the following semesters: Spring Semester
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3.00 Credits
This course is a direct, evolving outgrowth of the research on reading and language processes in children with reading disorders at the Center for Reading and Language Research at Tufts University. An interdisciplinary seminar with particular emphasis on the cognitive neurosciences, child development, linguistics, and education. Provides students and interested colleagues with an innovative educational opportunity to study cutting edge research on reading, to observe the development of theory-based curricula and technological tools for the teaching of reading, and to participate (in varying degrees) in applied experiences both at the Center and with severely at-risk readers in Boston, Medford, Somerville, Newton, Lowell, and Malden public schools.
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