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Undergraduate Degree Programs

Educational Psychology (EDPSY)

EDPSY 010 (GS) Individual Differences and Education (3) Relationships between learner differences and physical, cognitive, language, social, and cultural development; emphasis on ethnicity, gender, special needs; schooling implications.
Effective: Summer 2011
 

EDPSY 014 Learning and Instruction (3) Psychology of human learning applied toward the achievement of educational goals; evaluation of learning outcomes.
Effective: Summer 2011
 

EDPSY 101 (GQ) Analysis and Interpretation of Statistical Data in Education (3) An introduction to quantitative methods in educational research emphasizing the interpretation of frequently encountered statistical procedures.
Effective: Summer 2011
 

EDPSY 296 Independent Studies (1-18) Creative projects, including research and design, which are supervised on an individual basis and which fall outside the scope of formal courses.
Effective: Summer 2011
 

EDPSY 297 Special Topics (1-9) Formal courses given infrequently to explore, in depth, a comparatively narrow subject which may be topical or of special interest.
Effective: Summer 2011
 

EDPSY 297A Effective Study Skills (3) This course focuses on improving study skills, time management techniques, and other topics that should help students improve their academic lives.
Effective: Fall 2013 Ending: Fall 2013 Future: Fall 2013
 

EDPSY 297B Effective Learning in STEM (2) 2 credit course is offered as part of the Millennium Scholars program in Eberly College of Science and is designed to enable beginning first year science and engineering undergraduate students to become more effective scientists/engineers in training by strengthening their understanding of key components that facilitiate learning various materials.
Effective: Summer 2013 Ending: Summer 2013
 

EDPSY 400 Introduction to Statistics in Educational Research (3) The foundations of statistical techniques used in educational research; distributions, central tendency, variability, correlation, regression, probability, sampling, hypothesis testing.
Effective: Summer 2011
 

EDPSY 406 Applied Statistical Inference for the Behavioral Sciences (3) Common techniques (parametric) covered through two-factor analysis of variance (independent samples); hypothesis testing, confidence interval, power, robustness; MINITAB frequently used.
Effective: Summer 2011
Prerequisite: EDPSY 400 orSTAT 200  

EDPSY 408 (SPLED 408) Meeting Instructional Needs of English Language Learners with Special Needs (3) The course content and activities focus on instruction and assessment for English Language Learners with special needs.
Effective: Summer 2011
Prerequisite: EDPSY 010, EDPSY 014 Prerequisite or concurrent:SPLED 395W, SPLED 425  

EDPSY 421 Learning Processes in Relation to Educational Practices (3) An introduction to the empirical study of variables and conditions that influence school learning.
Effective: Summer 2011
Prerequisite: EDPSY 014 orPSYCH 212  

EDPSY 450 (PSYCH 404) Principles of Measurement (3) Scale transformation, norms, standardization, validation procedures, estimation of reliability.
Effective: Summer 2011
Prerequisite: EDPSY 400 orPSYCH 200 orPSYCH 100;STAT 200  

EDPSY 475 Introduction to Educational Research (3) Scientific method; classes of variables in educational research; the measurement of classroom behavior; survey, predictive, and experimental studies.
Effective: Summer 2011
Prerequisite: EDPSY 400  

EDPSY 496 Independent Studies (1-18) Creative projects, including research and design, which are supervised on an individual basis and which fall outside the scope of formal courses.
Effective: Summer 2011
 

EDPSY 497 Special Topics (1-9) Formal courses given infrequently to explore, in depth, a comparatively narrow subject which may be topical or of special interest.
Effective: Summer 2011
 

EDPSY 498 Special Topics (1-9) Formal courses given infrequently to explore, in depth, a comparatively narrow subject which may be topical or of special interest.
Effective: Summer 2011
 

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