School of Education & Social Policy
Coursework
I. Methods, three components
MPES fellows are expected to complete five methods courses outside of their home departments.

1. Basic methods courses for student's home disciplines
  • Varies by discipline; sequence approved by program director and advisory board
  • This requirement is not unique to MPES


2. Core methods for causally relevant educational research

Students must take four courses total in this category

Students must take two of the following three courses:

    1. Cluster-Randomized Trials (Hedges)

    2. HLM (Hedges)

    3. Designs for Causal Research in Field Settings (Cook)

Students select at least two of the following five topics:

  1. Regression; take one of the following:

    1. STAT 350-0 Regression Analysis (Jiang)

    2. Linear Models, Correlation and Regression (Bailey)

    3. Regression Analysis for Human Development (formerly Duncan, now Figlio)

  2. Practice Evaluation  (Cook)

  3. Psychometric Theory (Revelle)

  4. Meta-analysis  (Hedges)


3. Qualitative/Mixed Methods

     Students must take one of the following:

  1. Ethnographic Analysis (Bledsoe)

  2. Qualitative Analysis (Spillane)

  3. Field Methods (Patillo)
     

  4. Advanced Qualitative Methods (Lee)

II. Content and Theory, four components
MPES fellows are given one "get-out-of-class-free" card for a non-methods requirement

1. Cognition and Student Learning (two required courses)

Take one of the following courses:
  1. LS 401 Cognition and Learning (Sherin) syllabus 2007
  2. LS 403 Learning in Context: Cognitive Science Foundations of the Learning  Sciences (Ortony and Peterson) syllabus 2007
  3. LS 439 Cognitive Science Models of Learning and Problem Solving
  4. PSYCH462  Cognitive Development (Uttal or Waxman) syllabus 2006


Take one of the following courses:

  1. PSYCH 467  Culture, Language and Cognition (Medin or Waxman) syllabus 2008
  2. PSYCH 466  Analogy & Similarity (Gentner)
  3. PSYCH  358 The Psychology of Learning Design (Rapp)

2. Human Development (one required course)
 

Take one of the following courses:
  1. HDSP 402 Child Development (Chase-Lansdale) syllabus 2007
  2. HDSP 403 Adolescent Development (Hirsch) syllabus 2008
  3. HDSP 413 Theories of Human Development (McAdams)
3. Education and Social Policy (two required courses)

Take two of the following courses:
  1. LS 451 Analyzing Educational Policy (Spillane or Reninger) syllabus 2007
  2. LS 477 Philisophical and Historical Foundations of Education Technologies (Collins)
  3. HDSP 430 Economics of Social Policy (Duncan)
  4. ECON 341 Economics of Education (Urzua)
  5. HDSP 427 Sociology of Education (Rosenbaum) syllabus 2007
4. Reading and Mathematical Learning (one required course)

Take one of the following courses:
  1. LS 436 Research in Teaching & Learning Mathematics (Uttal/Sherin)
  2. LS 437 Research in Teaching & Learning Reading (Rapp and Lam)
  3. PSYCH 460 Psychology of Reading (Rapp or Horton)