printer friendly pageEDUC 276: Educational Assessment
Reliability, validity, bias, fairness, and properties of test scores. Uses of tests to monitor, manage, and reform instruction. Testing and competition, meritocracy, achievement gaps, and explanations for group differences.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3
Instructors:
Haertel, E. (PI)
EDUC 277: Education of Immigrant Students: Psychological Perspectives (EDUC 177)
Historical and contemporary approaches to educating immigrant students. Case study approach focuses on urban centers to demonstrate how stressed urban educational agencies serve immigrants and native-born U.S. students when confronted with overcrowded classrooms, controversy over curriculum, current school reform movements, and government policies regarding equal educational opportunity. (SSPEP)
Terms: Win
| Units: 4
Instructors:
Padilla, A. (PI)
EDUC 278: Introduction to Issues in Evaluation
Open to master's and doctoral students with priority to students from education. Focus is on the basic literature and major theoretical and practical issues in program evaluation. Introduction to basic concepts and intellectual debates in the field: knowledge construction, purpose of evaluation, values in evaluation, knowledge utilization, professional standards of evaluation practice. Enrollment limited to 15. (SSPEP)
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3
Instructors:
Porteus, A. (PI)
EDUC 279: Urban Youth and Their Institutions: Research and Practice (EDUC 179)
The determinants and consequences of urban life for youth, emphasizing disciplinary and methodological approaches, and the gap between the perspectives of state and local organizations and those of youth and their communities. The diversity of urban youth experiences with respect to ethnicity, gender, and immigration histories. Case studies illustrate civic-level and grassroots institutions, their structures, networks, and philosophies; historical and contemporary realities of urban youth for policy makers, educators, and researchers. Limited enrollment. Prerequisite: consent of instructor. (SSPEP/APA)
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4-5
Instructors:
McLaughlin, M. (PI)
EDUC 284: Teaching and Learning in Heterogeneous Classrooms
Teaching in academically and linguistically heterogeneous classrooms requires a repertoire of pedagogical strategies. Focus is on how to provide access to intellectually challenging curriculum and equal-status interaction for students in diverse classrooms. Emphasis is on group work and its cognitive, social, and linguistic benefits for students. How to prepare for group work, equalize participation, and design learning tasks that support conceptual understanding, mastery of content and language growth. How to assess group products and individual contributions. (STEP)
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3
Instructors:
Lotan, R. (PI)
EDUC 285: Supporting Students with Special Needs
For STEP teacher candidates. Needs of exceptional learners, identification of learning differences and disabilities, and adaptations in the regular inclusion classroom. Legal requirements of special education, testing procedures, development of individualized education plans, and support systems and services. Students follow a special needs learner to understand diagnosis, student needs, and types of services.
Instructors:
Fur, E. (PI)
EDUC 288: Organization Studies: Theories and Analyses (SOC 366)
Principles of organizational behavior and analysis; theories of group and individual behavior; organizational culture; and applications to school organization and design. Case studies.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
Instructors:
Powell, W. (PI)
EDUC 291: Learning Sciences and Technology Design Research Seminar and Colloquium
Students and faculty present and critique new and original research relevant to the Learning Sciences and Technology Design doctoral program. Goal is to develop a community of scholars who become familiar with each other's work. Practice of the arts of presentation and scholarly dialogue while introducing seminal issues and fundamental works in the field.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
| Units: 1-3
| Repeatable
for credit
Instructors:
Barron, B. (PI)
;
Pea, R. (PI)
EDUC 291X: Introduction to Survey Research (EDUC 191X)
Planning tasks, including problem formulation, study design, questionnaire and interview design, pretesting, sampling, interviewer training, and field management. Epistemological and ethical perspectives. Issues of design, refinement, and ethics in research that crosses boundaries of nationality, class, gender, language, and ethnicity.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3-4
Instructors:
Adams, J. (PI)
EDUC 298: Learning in a Networked World (CS 377L)
Foundations, theories and empirical studies for interdisciplinary advances in how we conceive of the potentials and challenges associated with lifelong, lifewide and life-deep learning in a networked world given the growth of always-on cyberinfrastructure for supporting information and social networks across space and time with personal computers, netbooks, and mobiles.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3
Instructors:
Pea, R. (PI)
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