printer friendly pageEDUC 278: Introduction to Program Evaluation
The purpose of Introduction to Program Evaluation (
EDUC 278) is to provide an introduction to the field of program evaluation. Students taking this course will learn basic concepts and participate in intellectual debates in the field. This course is intended to examine issues and challenges faced by evaluators of educational and social programs. We will be working with real evaluation tasks throughout the course. The class will meet once a week for 2hrs 50 min. It is critical that you commit to reading all the material before class, so that the discussion is well-focused. During the last weeks of the course, an evaluation proposal of a real-world program will be developed. The proposal will become the final paper.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 2-3
Instructors:
Ruiz-Primo, M. (PI)
EDUC 281: Technology for Learners
How can we use technology to improve learning? Many hope that technology will make learning easier, faster, or accessible to more learners. This course explores a variety of approaches to designing tools for learning, the theories behind them, and the research that tests their effectiveness. Strong focus on evaluating new tools for specific learners and subjects. Space is limited. Priority is given to master's students in the LDT Master's Program.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3
Instructors:
Thille, C. (PI)
;
Jia, Y. (TA)
EDUC 283: Child Development in and Beyond Schools
(Formerly
EDUC 144). How schools form a context for children's social and cognitive development. Focus is on early and middle childhood. Transactional processes between children and learning opportunities in classroom contexts. Topics include: alternative theoretical perspectives on the nature of child development; early experience and fit with traditional school contexts; assessment practices and implications for developing identities as learners; psychological conceptions of motivational processes and alternative perspectives; the role of peer relationships in schools; and new designs for learning environments. Readings address social science and methodological issues. STEP Elementary only.
Terms: Sum
| Units: 2
Instructors:
Dortrait, M. (PI)
;
Henderson, N. (PI)
EDUC 288: Organizational Analysis
This is an introductory course in organizational behavior intended primarily for master's students. The course is applicable to a wide range of organizational settings, but pays particular attention to studies of schools, universities, nonprofit organizations, and social movements. The course has three goals: to explore a variety of organizational contexts; to investigate different theoretical approaches that elucidate these contexts; and to provide students different ways of "seeing" and managing organizations.
Last offered: Autumn 2022
EDUC 289: The Centrality of Literacies in Teaching and Learning
(Formerly
EDUC 166.) Focus is on principles in understanding, assessing, and supporting the reading and writing processes, and the acquisition of content area literacies in secondary schools. Literacy demands within particular disciplines and how to use oral language, reading, and writing to teach content area materials more effectively to all students. (STEP)
Terms: Spr
| Units: 2
EDUC 290: Instructional Leadership: Building Capacity for Excellent Teaching
This course focuses on the role of leaders in designing, supporting and sustaining excellent teaching. How do leaders create the organizational conditions to focus attention on the technical core of instruction, curriculum and assessment. Course goals: 1) explore a variety of educational leadership approaches, 2) investigate the theory of action underlying these approaches to leadership and consider the implications for instructional practice and 3) develop understanding of the relationship between the leadership approach and the learning environment.
Last offered: Spring 2019
EDUC 293: Church, State, & Schools: Issues in Education & Religion (AMSTUD 293, JEWISHST 293X, RELIGST 234X)
This course will examine interactions between religion and education, focusing on both formal and experiential sites in which people and communities explore, articulate, encounter, and perform religious ideologies and identities. The class will focus on different religious traditions and their encounters the institutions and structures of education in American culture, both in the United States and as it manifests in American culture transnationally.
Last offered: Autumn 2015
EDUC 299A: Beyond Equity
(Formerly
EDUC 167.) Introduction to the theories and practices of equity and democracy in education. How to think about teaching and schooling in new ways; the individual moral and political reasons for becoming a teacher. Enrollment restricted to students in the STEP Program only. (STEP)
Terms: Sum
| Units: 1
EDUC 306A: Economics of Education in the Global Economy
Case material considers development problems in the U.S. and abroad. Discussion sections on economic aspects of educational development.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 5
Instructors:
Loyalka, P. (PI)
;
Koraicho, G. (TA)
EDUC 306B: Global Education Policy & Organization (PUBLPOL 316)
Education policy, politics, and development. Topics include: politics, interests, institutions, policy, and civil society; how schools and school systems operate as political systems; how policy making occurs in educational systems; and theories of development.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3-5
Instructors:
Carnoy, M. (PI)
;
Santos, H. (TA)
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