Essential skills for conducting educational research. Stating purposes and hypotheses, instrument development, research design, sampling, data analysis, interpreting results, and preparing research projects.

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 students with theoretical and practical experiences related to the education and training of special needs students. Emphasis is placed on curriculum development, methods and materials, assessment, vocational programming and research.

Lecture, discussion, field experience. Purpose, problems, issues, strategies, and materials in teaching science at the middle and high school level. Required for licensure.

Lecture, discussion, field experience. Purpose, problems, issues, strategies, and materials in teaching mathematics at the middle and high school level. Required for licensure.

This course identifies the issues in early childhood assessment and the types of norm-referenced, and criterion-referenced assessment, developmental scales, formal and informal observation techniques, and team process issues.

Historical and legal landmarks in special education from a national and international perspective. Sociological, philosophical, and cultural perspectives addressed. A field component, introduction of the IEP, and the community special education approach.