SPY 530 Applied Research Methods for School Psychologists

Candidates apply research tools and strategies of problem investigation to the formulation of original small-scale research proposals and plans for program evaluation relevant to Educational and School Psychology that embody acceptable standards of reliability, validity, and ethics. Candidates develop sound and testable research questions and hypotheses conduct an abbreviated literature review, and use quantitative and qualitative data collection and analysis techniques. These techniques may include measures of central tendency and dispersion, measurement error, correlation, t-tests, analysis of variance, factor analysis, chi-square, meta-analysis, observation, interviewing, case study, and questionnaire construction. Pre-requisite(s): SPY 524 or equivalent course consent of program coordinator. Co-requisite(s): None. 2 semester hours