Dec 08, 2024  
2019-2020 Graduate Bulletin 
    
2019-2020 Graduate Bulletin [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

EDL 7165 - Applied Quantitative Methods in Education I (3)


When Offered: On Demand
This is an applied course intended to allow doctoral students to gain experience in designing and evaluating educational research using quantitative methods. Students will examine design issues in research, formulate research questions, create data sets or explore existing data sets, and use a variety of descriptive and inferential procedures to answer research questions, interpret results and compose the results in the style of professional educational research. A wide variety of examples from the professional literature will be reviewed to assist students in understanding the relationships between the questions studied and the methodologies applied. Students will also develop basic proficiency in using SPSS or other tools to analyze data.