Research and Program Evaluation

Catalog description

Introduction to principles, concepts and operations that are necessary for an understanding of individual group, and program assessment and evaluation, and of empirical research methodology; derivation of standard scores and other attributes of normative test construction; correlation; reliability; validity; presentation of data in tables and graphs; descriptive statistics and their computation; fundamentals of inferential statistics, including comparison of mean differences by t-tests, simple analysis of variance; chi-square; individual differences and their measurement; and reading and interpreting research reports.