ESR 502 Research Analysis Methods for Educational Psychologists

Students learn about research tools and strategies of problem investigation to critically analyze research studies, clinical assessment tools, clinical reports, and program evaluations relevant to Educational Psychology and School Psychology. Topics of investigation include identifying research hypotheses and questions, ethics in the conduct of research, criteria for a sound literature review, structure and uses of qualitative and quantitative data collection and analysis techniques. Measures of central tendency and dispersion, measurement error, correlation, t-tests, analysis of variance, and chi-square tests are introduced within the context of multiple research designs. Prerequisite(s): Admission to the Educational Psychology program or consent of instructor. 2 semester hours

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