Relationships between social policy and disability in a democracy are explored, specifically, with particular reference to the ever changing landscape of societal values associated with the evolving paradigms that frame disability research and policies.

Contemporary issues facing administrators. Topics include special education finance, law, and policy.

Supervised on-the-job doctoral school psychology experience. Work includes delivery of indirect and direct services in the areas of assessment, prevention, intervention, case management, and system level service delivery.

This course presents and discusses the major theories regarding the concept of "test validity" and the major practices involved in test validation. The skills taught in this course will enable students to be experts in testing tests. Prerequisites: EDUC 656, 591J or 632

Examination of ethnographic theory, methods, and techniques of researching language, literacy, and culture in educational settings. It involves conceptualizing and conducting a full ethnographic study and learning how to use reflection on the fieldwork experiences to construct (or deconstruct) and articulate the theoretical basis, methods, and findings of your research. The course is organized to highlight both knowledge acquisition and reflection. Year-long course. Prerequisite: Doctoral status, 9 credits of study in Doctoral program.

Designs and research on counseling and mental health services, professional and ethical standards, issues in cultural, political, and historical contexts of helping. Consent of instructor required (Doctoral Section).

Students will be introduced to foundational philosophies and strategies for qualitative data analysis, coding their own data sets in weekly workshop and discussion settings. Strategies will be presented for setting up and organizing a database, coding and sorting data into categories, modifying and refining the scheme, aggregating data into larger themes or patterns, establishing audit trails, triangulating among data sources, participants and methodologies, and establishing trustworthiness of the data set.

This doctoral seminar is designed to support in-depth exploration of critical approaches to discourse analysis as a basis for research on language and literacy in educational settings.

Overview of research in mathematics education, science education, and learning technologies. Synopses of MSLT faculty research agendas. Development of students? topics for research. (For first-year doctoral students.)

This course provides a conceptual, practical, and empirical foundation for SJE in college settings in four areas: advocacy and inclusion, diversity education, intergroup dialogue, and civic engagement.