Innovative Courses

Across the country, predoctoral interdisciplinary research training programs receive support from IES to collectively produce a cadre of education researchers capable of and willing to conduct a new generation of methodologically rigorous and educationally relevant scientific research. The following courses represent new approaches to education as an evidence-based field.

Carnegie Mellon University:
Educational Goals, Instruction, and Assessment; Project Assignment
Research Methods for the Learning Sciences
Seminar on Scientific Research in Education

Northwestern University:
Design and Analysis of Social Experiments with Cluster Randomization
Field Methods
Multilevel Models
Regression Analysis in Human Development

University of Minnesota:
Advanced Measurement: Theory and Application (Part I)
Advanced Measurement: Theory and Application (Part II)
Curriculum and Course Descriptions
Education Sciences Proseminar

University of Wisconsin-Madison:
Interdisciplinary Training Seminar in Education Sciences (Fall 2007)
Interdisciplinary Training Seminar in Education Sciences (Fall 2008)
Interdisciplinary Training Seminar in Education Sciences (Fall 2009)
Randomized Trials to Inform Education Policy

 

Training Programs are encouraged to send course syllabi to wesling@wisc.edu for posting.