Education 790J - Causal Inference/Educ Research

This course will help students learn to assess the causal effects of education policies and practices. Educational and social science researchers often want to know the effect of a particular teaching practice, what effects accountability policies have on student learning, or the effect of financial aid policies on college completion, etc. Historically, however, education research that utilizes quantitative methods have been correlational, and thus, do not to allow researchers to understand causal effects. This course reviews important quantitative analytic techniques to assess causal effects (i.e., instrumental variables, regression discontinuity, difference-in-differences etc.).

EDUC 650 This course is an advanced quantitative methods course for doctoral students or advanced Masters students. This course requires prior experience with multivariate regression at the graduate level.