printer friendly pageEDUC 351C: Workshop in Technical Quality of Educational Assessments and Accountability
Topics include: determinations of accuracy for individual scores and group summaries; design and reporting of educational assessments; achievement instruments in state-level accountability systems; and policy implications of statistical properties. See
http://www.stanford.edu/~rag/.
EDUC 352X: Education Schools: Historical and Sociological Perspectives
The lowly status of the education school, defined as college, school, or department, within a university. Why does the education school get no respect? Its historical development, how it evolved into its current position in the academic hierarchy, and contemporary factors that help to reinforce that position. (SSPEP) (Labaree)
EDUC 353A: Problems in Measurement: Item Response Theory
Alternative mathematical models used in test construction, analysis, and equating. Emphasis is on applications of item response theory (latent trait theory) to measurement problems, including estimation of item parameters and person abilities, test construction and scoring, tailored testing, mastery testing, vertical and horizontal test equating, and detection of item bias. Prerequisites: 252 and 257, or
PSYCH 248 and 252, or equivalent. (PSE)
EDUC 356: Memory, History, and Education (HISTORY 337C)
Interdisciplinary. Since Herodotus, history and memory have competed to shape minds: history cultivates doubt and demands interpretation; memory seeks certainty and detests that which thwarts its aims. History and memory collide in modern society, often violently. How do young people become historical amidst these forces; how do school, family, nation, and mass media contribute to the process?
EDUC 358X: Developments in Access to Knowledge and Scholarly Communication
Scholarly and educational implications of new academic communication systems. New dissemination methods in light of longstanding issues of epistemology, intellectual property, propriety, access, value, and responsibility within the scholarly community. Contexts include publishing, archiving, indexing, and networking.
EDUC 359A: Research in Science and Mathematics Education: Assessment and Evaluation
Historical and international perspectives. Emphasis is on trends and issues in contemporary American research and policy. Opportunity to develop and discuss dissertation plans. (CTE) (Shavelson)
EDUC 359E: Research on Mathematics Education
Comparative and cultural perspectives on mathematics teaching and learning practices in the U.S. mathematics education in the context of cultural and educational systems. Teaching and learning as an interactive system, classroom discourse and math talk, teacher professional development, classroom culture and norms, educational equity, and issues of curriculum and standards.
EDUC 360: Action Research in Education
Introduction to the theory and practice of action research. Basic concepts and methods. The historical and ideological influences on this form of inquiry by teachers. Participants analyze action research reports and engage in a small-scale action-research project. (CTE)
EDUC 363X: Research and Practice on Organizing Urban Schools for Improvement (OB 367)
This course is a Bass Seminar. For masters' and doctoral students in Education and GSB. Empirical research on urban school reform efforts, theoretical frameworks on student and adult learning, the sociology of work in schools, and social organization theory. How community context affects instructional coherence. Dynamics between school professionals and with parents. Authentic instruction and its effects. Case studies on reform implementation.
EDUC 366X: Learning in Formal and Informal Environments
How learning opportunities are organized in schools and non-school settings including museums, after-school clubs, community art centers, theater groups, aquariums, sports teams, and new media contexts. Sociocultural theories of development as a conceptual framework. Readings from empirical journals, web publications, and books.Collaborative written or multimedia research project in which students observe and document a non-school learning environment.
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