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.
- Due to unforeseen circumstances Ed Res 565 has been cancelled for the Spring 2019 term. We expect it to be offered again Fall 2019.
- Graduate Research Course Rotation
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