Grad Certificate – Applied Measurement & Quantitative Methods
Introducing the newest certificate:
Graduate Certificate in Applied Measurement and Quantitative Methods
The graduate Certificate in Applied Measurement and Quantitative Methods, administered by the Department of Psychology in the College of Arts and Sciences and Educational Psychology in the College of Education, provides advanced knowledge and training in methods typically employed to investigate a wide variety of problems in the broad domains of the social and behavioral sciences. The certificate leverages expertise across colleges to provide students in a variety of disciplines with advanced proficiency in quantitative methods and educational and psychological measurement. Students will gain the expertise to produce, analyze, and report empirical information to drive decision-making and understanding complex environments.
We want you to increase your marketability by providing you with an advanced skill set that will aid you in your future careers. These skills may be invaluable to your employers by helping you make better decisions through rational project design, systematic measurement and the application of modern, sophisticated data analysis. We invite you to take advantage of strengths across departments at WSU to meet your development as a scholar with advanced methodological training.
The certificate is open to students in any WSU graduate program. Students not in degree programs may also earn the certificate by enrolling as non-degree students. Students are required to maintain the minimum GPA requirement of at least 3.0 while enrolled in the certificate program. To qualify for the graduate certificate a prospective student must have a Bachelor’s degree from an accredited postsecondary institution and meet all prerequisite requirements or demonstrate equivalent knowledge in foundational statistics and research methods coursework before enrolling in any course that require this knowledge.
Curriculum Description
Students will select a sequence of four courses that best meet their needs by completing 12 credits from the below coursework. The focus may be on quantitative modeling, measurement or a combination of the two.
Psychology and Prevention Science Courses
Prev_Sci 510 | Multilevel Modeling II: Advanced Multilevel Models for Longitudinal Data |
Prev_Sci 512 | Finite and Growth Mixture Modeling |
Psych 514 | Psychometrics |
Psych 515 | Multilevel and Synthesized Data |
Psych 516 | Applied Structural Equation Modeling |
Educational Psychology courses
Ed Psych 511 | Classical and Modern Test Theory |
Ed Psych 572 | Meta Analysis |
Ed Psych 575 | Multilevel Modeling |
Ed Psych 576 | Factor Analytic Procedures |
Ed Psych 577 | Item Response Theory |
For more information, please contact:
Leonard Burns, Ph.D. glburns@wsu.edu or Brian F. French, Ph.D. frenchb@wsu.edu