This course aims to prepare ELL and mainstream teachers to address the challenge of helping bilingual and emergent bilingual learners succeed in regular academic content classes. We will consider research supporting the view that second language acquisition is enhanced by rigorous academic content instruction. We will also explore instructional practices aligning English Language Proficiency Benchmarks and Outcomes for English Language Learners with those of science and other content areas.

This course introduces and assesses the 11 Sheltered English Immersion (SEI) Standards fulfilling the SEI Endorsement requirement for teacher licensure in Massachusetts. Course content prepares PK-12 preservice teachers with the theoretical, cultural, political, linguistic, and instructional tools for effectively promoting the language development of English language learners.

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).

This course deals with advanced topics in psychometric methods and educational statistics. Topics include: differential item functioning, univariate and multivariate selection theory, equating, score scales and norming, generalizability theory, and Bayesian inference.

The course will review contemporary models of program evaluation often used in the fields of education and human services. Particular emphasis is placed on the use of logic models and program theory and the CIPP model of program evaluation.

Course will explore the historical development of psychology as a field of study and its relationship to educational practice in the school setting. The course will cover the development of psychology from the ancient Greeks to Wilhelm Wundt, to the implications of the work of John Dewey and William James in relationship to educational practice.

Organization and management dimensions of special education administration internal to the school system. Concepts and theories for analyzing and understanding the principles and criteria.

For advanced doctoral students in education, psychology, and sociology. Techniques for specifying statistical models that conform to theory, fitting the models to data, testing the fit of the models and based on the analysis, either rejecting or modifying the theory. Prerequisite: Educ 771.

Students review classic research manuscripts in counseling/school psychology, review current manuscripts and identify trends and issues, evaluate quality of research designs, develop research proposals related to areas of special interest, conduct pilot research studies under faculty mentorship related to areas of special interest.

The purpose of this course is to support graduate students as they move forward in their research and scholarly work in science education, mathematics education, and/or learning technology.