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).

This course will focus on the analysis and understanding of the critical features of a range of empirically validated interventions for achievement and behavior problems. The foundational perspectives for understanding the problem-focused interventions in both areas are instructional design, educational psychology, and learning and behavior theory. In addition, the course will include an over-arching theme of service delivery through collaborative instructional and behavioral consultation methods. This course is primarily intended for students in the School Psychology Program.

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 seminar explores critical literacies as sociocultural and sociopolitical practices across languages, literacies, and contexts. Participants will investigate how these practices can deconstruct/reconstruct power relations in texts, teaching, and research.

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.