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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: GEDU - 708. This course revolves around the theory and methods of qualitative research, drawn from the social sciences of anthropology and sociology, as applied to education. Students will learn to formulate a research question, collect data through observation and interviewing, and analyze data. Coursework includes a student-developed research project.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: GEDU - 708. This course examines issues related to the collection and analysis of textual and other representational data for research purposes, covering several approaches to content analysis, both qualitative and quantitative.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: GEDU - 706, GEDU - 708. Principles of classical, modern (item-response theory), and cognitive test theory applied to educational and psychological measurement and their application to doctoral research. Applications to both norm-referenced and criterion-referenced testing orientations will be stressed throughout the course. The focus will be on test development and test evaluation.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: GEDU - 708. A survey of social anthropological schools of thought including functionalist, structuralist, critical, and interpretive. Attention is given to styles of anthropological research including ethnographic, symbolic, historical, documentary, autobiographical, participatory, and textual analysis. An examination of major anthropologists and their contribution to study concepts of culture form various perspectives. Application of selected autobiographicalprinciples to the study of one professional, domestic, or international setting.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: GEDU - 708. Introduction to program evaluation. Basic issues of evaluation design, data collection, interpretation, and communication of results are discussed. Emphasis is placed on designing evaluations based on an understanding of how programs are implemented.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: GEDU - 708. An examination of various research paradigms employed by social scientists, educators, human service professionals, and community agencies interested in the study of comparative group behaviors, educational strategies and learning patterns within racially, ethnically, and culturally diverse populations.
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3.00 Credits
A survey of the digital technolgy revolution as it has affected and may affect teaching and learning in schools, universities, the workplace, and at home. The course includes "hands on" laboratory time for the exploration of educational aspects of the new technologies.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: GEDU - 706, GEDU - 707, GEDU - 708. Correlational approaches to analyzing educational data, including simple and multiple regression, path analysis, LISREL, and hierarchical linear models.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: GEDU - 706, GEDU - 708. This course deals with the methods and process of meta-analysis, which is a quantitative review of the literature. Students will have the opportunity to plan a meta-analysis and to evaluate published meta-analyses in an area of education.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: GEDU - 708. A discussion of the theoretical foundations of participatory critical pedagogy research as well as a description of effective processes to conduct research utilizing this methodology. Students will be encouraged to (a) define and/or refine the methodology of their own dissertation and (b) acquire experience in the process of dialogic retrospection - the praxis of dialogue as an emancipatory tool, the creation of a text from dialogue transcripts and the analysis of the generative themes contained in the dialogue.
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