College of Education
Graduate Research Courses
Research… from an educational perspective.
We invite you see see how we can help you with your research training.
Courses Offered by the College of Education
| Course | Title |
|---|---|
| ED_RES 562 | Epistemology, Inquiry and Representation |
| ED_RES 563 | Principles of Research |
| ED_RES 564 | Qualitative Research |
| ED_RES 565 | Quantitative Research |
| ED_PSYCH 505 | Research Methods |
| ED_PSYCH 508 | Educational Statistics |
| ED_PSYCH 568 | Quasi-Experimental Design |
| ED_PSYCH 569 | Seminar in Quantitative Techniques in Education |
| ED_PSYCH 572 | Intro to Systematic Literature Reviews and Meta-Analysis |
| SPEC_ED 592 | Single Subject Research Design and Methods |
| CSSTE 544 (was Ed_Res 567) | Discourse Analysis |
| CSSTE 545 (was Ed_Res 568) | Critical Ethnography |
| CSSTE 546 (was Ed_Res 569) | Arts-Informed Perspectives in Educational Research |
| ED_AD 591 (was Ed_Res 570) | Action Research |
| ED_RES 571 | Doctoral Dissertation Preparation |
| ED_AD 536 | Intro to Qualitative Research in Education |
| ED_AD 537 | Advanced Qualitative Research in Education |
| ED_AD 538 | Special Topics in Qualitative Research |
| ED_AD 539 | Applied Research for Educational Leaders |
| TCH_LRN 560 | Research in Teaching |
| TCH_LRN 588 | Action Research: Teachers as Researchers |
| ED_PSYCH 575 | Multilevel Modeling |
| ED_PSYCH 576 | Factor Analytic Procedures |
| TCH_LRN 523 | Special Topics: Mixed Methods |
Research Course Prerequisites
| WSU Course | Prerequisites |
| EdRes 562 | Doctoral standing in Education or EdPsy 505 or concurrent enrollment |
| EdRes 563 | EdRes 562 or admission to the EdD program |
| EdRes 564 | EdRes 563 |
| EdRes 565 | EdPsy 508 and EdRes 563 |
Note: Prior to a student enrolling in EdRes 565, the student should be very familiar with both conceptual and technical aspects of central tendency and variability measures, regression and correlation, hypothesis testing, z-tests and analysis of contingency tables. Below is a list of general topics that should be covered before enrollment in EdRes 565, like in a course such as EdPsy 508 or it’s equivalent.
List of topics
- Displaying Data, Freqency Tables, Graphs
- Percentiles and Percentile Ranks
- Measures of Central Tendency
- Measures of Variablity
- Normal Distributions and Standard Scores
- Normal Distribution
- Introduction to Correlation
- Introduction to Simple Linear Regression
- Probablity
- Sampling Distributions
- Introduction to Hypothesis Testing
- Testing Hypothesis about a Single Mean
- Confidence Intervals
- Hypothesis Testing for Independent Samples
- Hypothesis Testing for Dependent Samples
- Chi-square Goodness-of-Fit Test
- Chi-square Test of Independence