Required Courses

Students in the doctoral specialization in Quantitative Methods will take courses in the area of statistics and psychometrics, as well as courses outside the Quantitative Methods Area and Department of Educational Psychology.  The required courses are listed below

Required Courses

All quantitative courses required of the Master’s with a specialization in Quantitative Methods⁺

Three Core Area Courses in Educational Psychology.

Three courses (a minimum of 9 total hours) that are outside of the Educational Psychology Department*

Specialized competency – computer programming course covering data simulation*

EDP 196 Colloquium in Quantitative Methods
EDP 196 Doctoral Research Colloquium
EDP 196 Educational Psychology Departmental Colloquium
EDP 382K Survey of Multivariate Methods
EDP 380P Item Response Theory
EDP 384 Survey Design
EDP 382K Structural Equation Modeling
EDP 384 Hierarchical Linear Modeling
EDP 380P Applied Psychometrics
EDP 282K Integration of Quantitative Methods: Statistics

Note: The EDP 282K course is to be successfully completed prior to the semester in which the student goes through the qualifying process

Two courses of EDP 396T, which is the qualifying procedure

Two of the following courses:

EDP 382K Applied Bayesian Analysis
EDP 380P Computerized Adaptive Testing
EDP 380P Advanced Psychometric Research
EDP 382K Advanced Statistical Modeling
EDP 384 Meta-analysis

At least two courses of dissertation research

⁺ Or equivalent courses that must be approved by the Quantitative Methods Chair
* Must be approved by the Quantitative Methods Chair