COEHS 3-year Schedule of Research Methodology Coursework
This schedule is tentative and is for planning purposes only. When particular courses are offered could change based on instructor availability, section enrollment, and other factors.
This document is the faculty’s intention to offer courses and is not a guarantee.
Consult the official schedule for a particular semester via schedule.unm.edu.
Course Title and Number | Catalog Description | Prereqs | Best Suited for: | Fall 2025 | Spring 2026 | Summer 2026 | Fall 2026 | Spring 2027 | Summer 2027 | Fall 2027 | Spring 2028 | Summer 2028 |
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EDPY 500: Survey of Research Methods in Education | Overview of quantitative and qualitative research methods for research consumers. Emphasis is on locating published research and reading research reports with critical understanding of researchers methods of data collection and analysis. | None | Any graduate student | Online | F2F | Online | F2F | Online | F2F | |||
EDPY502: Survey of Statistics in Education | Non-technical overview of statistical methods in educational research; computation is not covered. Emphasis on developing critical understanding of statistical methods and results when reading and interpreting research, not on producing research or calculating statistics. | None | Any graduate student | Online | Online | Online | ||||||
EDPY505: Conducting Quantitative Educational Research | Provides students with skills for designing quantitative educational research, including identifying a problem, reviewing literature, formulating hypotheses, considering ethical issues, selecting participants, selecting or constructing measures, making valid inferences, writing reports. | None | Any graduate student | Online | F2F | Online | F2F | Online | F2F | |||
EDPY511: Introductory Educational Statistics | Foundations of statistical methods for research producers. Covers sampling methods, descriptive statistics, standard scores, distributions, estimation, statistical significance testing, t-tests, correlation, chi-square and effect size using statistical software and computation. | None | Any graduate student | F2F | Online | Online | F2F | Online | Online | F2F | Online | Online |
EDPY515: Survey and Questionnaire Design and Analysis | Covers survey research from item writing and survey development to sampling, administration, analysis and reporting. Emphasizes applications and interpretations in educational and social science research and use and interpretation of statistical software for survey research. | None | Any graduate student | F2F | ||||||||
EDPY572: Classroom Assessment | Provides educators with skills in assessment and knowledge of issues in measurement and assessment. Skills necessary to understand and communicate large-scale test information are also developed. | None | Any graduate student | F2F | Online | |||||||
EDPY574: Introduction to Educational and Psychological Measurements | A survey of classical and modern approaches to measurement and assessment as applied to education and/or psychology. Includes measurement and scaling, reliability and validity, traditional and alternative assessment methods. | None | Any graduate student | Online | ||||||||
EDPY504: Statistical Software Applications for Educational Research | Lab-based instruction of R including R functions, packages, and resources available for data management and analysis, basic operations (e.g. data importation, management, and examination), and analyses. | None | Doctoral Student | F2F | F2F | F2F | ||||||
EDPY603: Applied Statistical Design and Analysis | Includes factorial analysis of variance (ANOVA), planned comparisons, post hoc tests, repeated measures designs, and regression analysis. Emphasis on solving applied problems using statistical analysis with computer software. | EDPY511 or equivalence | Doctoral Student | F2F | F2F | F2F | ||||||
EDPY604: Multiple Regression Techniques as Applied to Education | Includes bivariate regression, multiple regression with continuous and categorical independent variables and interactions, orthogonal and nonorthogonal designs and selected post hoc analyses. Computer analysis, conceptual understanding and applications to educational research are stressed. | EDPY603 | Doctoral Student | F2F | F2F | F2F | ||||||
EDPY606: Applied Multivariate Statistics | The course will cover the following topics: principal component analysis, factor analysis, cluster analysis, discrimination analysis, multivariate ANOVA, and item response theory. | EDPY603 | Doctoral Student | F2F | ||||||||
EDPY607: Structural Equation Modeling | Theory, application, interpretation of Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) techniques. Includes covariance structures, path diagrams, path analysis, model identification, estimation and testing; confirmatory factor analysis, structural equation modeling and linear structural relations using latent variables. | EDPY603 & EDPY604 | Doctoral Student | F2F | ||||||||
EDPY608: Multilevel Modeling | The fundamentals of multilevel regression models, applications of such models to both cross-sectional and longitudinal data, and a survey of several advanced multilevel regression models. | EDOY603 & EDPY6043 | Doctoral Student | F2F | ||||||||
SPCD 505 | Research in LD/ED | None | Any graduate student | F2F + ARR | F2F + ARR | F2F + ARR | ||||||
SPCD 610 | Application, Analysis and Interpretation of Research Methods in Special Education | Doctoral Students | F2F | F2F | ||||||||
SPCD 619 | Single Case Research Design | None | Doctoral Students | ONL | ONL | ONL | ||||||
LLSS 593T Posthuman Research Methods | This is the second time Mary Rice has taught this course so she can add it to the catalogue. The course draws on posthuman theories to analyze, critique and develop methods for research in education. | None | Any Graduate Student | F2F | F2F | F2F | ||||||
LLSS 502, Introduction to Qualitative Research | Designed to give students an introduction to qualitative research methodologies and methods relevant to education. Students engage in the practice of qualitative methods from various activities and exercises. | Any graduate student | F2F | F2F | F2F | F2F | F2F | F2F | ||||
LLSS 501, practitioner Research | This course focuses on the theory and practice of school-based research. Will read research by other teachers/practitioners and design and implement a research project. | Any graduate student | ||||||||||
LLSS 593, Ethnographic Research Methods | Any graduate student | |||||||||||
LLSS 605, Advanced Qualitative Research | A doctoral seminar focusing on helping students understand qualitative research methods, including: problem definition, data collection and analysis and how to increase the trustworthiness of one's findings. A research study is required. | Doctoral students | F2F | F2F | ||||||||
LLSS 606, Case Study Research | Students conceptualize, develop, conduct, and report a pilot case study research project. Course includes an emphasis on qualitative data analysis techniques and the writing of case narratives. | Doctoral students | F2F | F2F | ||||||||
EDPY652 Advanced Qualitative Research Methods in Human Development | In the process of seeking UNM approval | LLSS502 or equivalence | Doctoral students | F2F | F2F |
