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2018-2019 Graduate Studies Bulletin 
    
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RES 358 - Applied Research in Educational Settings


Semester Hours: 4
Fall, Spring
This is the second of a two-semester sequence of courses is designed to prepare educational leaders to use data as a fundamental tool to improve the experiences of children and adults in schools and other learning institutions. Participants will learn to use data to develop a culture of high standards and equity in learning organizations and monitor student achievement and learning. Students in this class will build an institutional instructional student data base; monitor an educational intervention within an organization; use data to describe institutional processes, practices, and progress; examine institutional belief systems, underlying assumptions, and behaviors; speculate on ways to use results to mobilize the school community for action; and provide a record of personal and institutional accountability. The class covers measures of central tendency and dispersion, normal curve, correlation, linear regression, chi-square, t-tests, one-way analysis of variance, partial and multiple correlation and multiple regression, factor analysis.

Prerequisite(s)/Course Notes:
RES 357 . May not be taken on a Pass/Fail basis.





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