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TEP 261
Fall 2004

Syllabus

Week 1: Sept 29

Introduction

  • meet the 2nd year students
  • Plan for the year: Ed.D. in T & L Timeline
  • Third year timeline: TEP 231ABC syllabi - a "wiki-syllabus"
    • A prototypical dissertation outline
    • A prototypical dissertation proposal outline
  • What is a wiki?: Wikipedia
  • Adopt a textbook
  • Second year papers
  • eScholarship
  • What should TEP's eScholarship site look like? To do before next week:
    • skim through the textbook you adopted and add the list of topics you'd like to cover to the syllabus possibilities list
    • review your Second year paper and any feedback you got, and bring in thoughts about a revised version - also post them on the revised white paper page (be sure to sign your name to your posting)
    • bring in a simple outline of your dissertation proposal and note where parts of your Second year paper might fit - also post them on the dissertation proposal page
    • read Virginia Richardson's essay on the nature of the education doctorate - post your reactions, especially the implications of this essay to the Ed.D. in Teaching & Learning on the Ed.d. page


    Week 2: Oct 6

    Proposal writing
    • pre-doctoral fellowship
    • "The Art of Writing Proposals", an article published by the Social Science Research Council
    • Top Ten Ways to Get Funded
    • TSE Research Portal
      Proposal section

      Your Second year papers:
      "Mock-up" of TEP eScholarship page (many links and buttons don't work)

      Dissertation committees: Your dissertation outlines:

      Doctoral study & the TEP Ed.D.

      For next week: focus on research design:
      • read more closely the randomized experimental design chapter of your "adopted" textbook
      • select some research issue that you care about that could be addressed with a randomized experimental design and describe the design on the randomized experimental design page
      • send me an email message with your preferences for your doctoral committee, as described on the Ed.D. in T&L dissertation committees page


      Week 3: Oct 13

      • Co-constructing a syllabus (as a part of constructivist learning)
      • Sharing time / sharing activities - add youself to the syllabus whenever you want to share
      Research design
      • What is research design?
        **Website for the text book Research Design Explained
      • What are randomized experimental designs?
        **What is random?
        **a simple way to carry out random selection with the =RAND() function and the Sort tool in Excel
        ** A website that creates random integers **randomization and generalization: population -> sample -> population
      • Between-subjects vs. within-subjects designs
      • Factorial designs
      • Counter-balancing
      • When to use which design?
        **Threats to internal validity
        **Threats to external validity
      • Ethics of randomized experimental design
      • The politics of research design: Methodology wars IES vs. NSF vs. Shavelson & Towne vs. ...
      • How does science learn? Applying learning theories to scientific knowledge building
      • Dissertation committees: the next steps
      For next week:
      • read the chapter in your textbook on "quasi-experimental designs"
      • send me (if you haven't ready) an email with a list of at least five people (beyond your advisor) that you'd like to have on your dissertation committee, along with reasons why
      • design and post in the quasi-experimental design page a quasi-experiment that you might carry out


      Week 4: Oct 20

      Quasi-experimental design
    • grad student liaison role for junior search: who?
    • Here is a link to the UCSD IRB website. The forms we need are under the Social and Behavioral Sciences Forms heading.
    • "Draft" of TEP eScholarship page (many links and buttons don't work)
    • Nov 17th presentations by the MA/First year Ed.D. students?
    • Ed.D. dissertation guidelines
    • Funding opportunities
      **D of Ed's FIPSE
      **NSF's ITEST
      **NSF's SLC
    • Specifics on the need for human subjects forms
    • The range of quasi-experimental designs
      ** Quasi-experimental designs
      **Non-equivalent groups
      **Time-series designs
      **Single-case experimental designs
      ** Design experiments
    • Basic Concepts of Experimental and Quasi-Experimental Research
    • Paired reviews of dissertation proposals For next week:
    • Design a survey on some topic of interest and post it on our survey page
    • Compare two surveys of the presidental race (look at for instance) that differ substantially in their predictions, and comment on why they vary on our presidental survey page
    • Skim through the funding possibilities and comment on which you think would be most valuable for TEP on the funding page
    • Bring a list of 4-6 research questions that you hope to address in your dissertation if you are interested in exchanging your list with another classmate for feedback


      Week 5: Oct 27

      Survey Methods, & Mixed Methods Resources for graduate students
    • Doctoral Committee Membership for the Doctor of Education (Ed.D.) degree
    • UCSD's Graduate Student Handbook
    • Graduate Adviser's Manual

      Proposals:
    • FIPSE: The Use of Annotated Video by Study Groups to Improve Teacher Education
    • ITEST: TeachITweb: A system for Teacher-Driven Integration of Information Technologies

    • Random assignment vs. random selection
    • Literary Digest: 2.4 million sample out of 128 million population
      1936 prediction: Landon 57% Roosevelt 43%
      Result: Roosevelt 62% (27,751,597) Landon 38% (16,679,583)
    • current polls: ~1000 out of 293,027,571 (July 2004 est.) population
    • Simple random selection vs. stratified random selection vs. area probability sampling
    • Nonresponse bias (see Myth and Reality in Reporting Sampling Error)
    • Population -> sample -> population For next week:
    • Read the "descriptive statistics" chapter of your textbook
    • Find or create some simple data set you care about and bring it in next time so we can compute descriptive statistics on it (if you don't already have it in an Excel spreadsheet, type it or paste it into the first column of this Excel worksheet (below the "Data" header cell)


      Week 6: Nov 3


    • Winter 2005 elective courses
    • Doctoral committees & procedures

      Introduction to data analysis: Descriptive statistics
      • mean, mode, median, variance, standard deviation: Excel & worksheets
      • Visualization of data


    • HyperStat Online


      Nice set of applets illustrating various statistical concepts


      Week 7: Nov 10

      Timelines for preparing, submitting and revising Human Subjects applications for all the different organizations that will be involved in our research.
      UCSD's Human Subjects protection site


      Let me know what is your preferred TEPwiki login (for next quarter)


      New browser: Firefox 1.0 for Mac and Windows


      Correlational statistics


      For next week:
      • Read your textbook's chapter on hypothesis testing
      • Run some of the tests on your own data


      Week 8: Nov 17

      Hypothesis testing statistics


      News on committee formation: outside members have to be tenured UC faculty not on the TEP Ed.D. faculty list


      When do we use t-tests, z-tests, one-tailed, two-tailed? What do the numbers generated by these tests mean?


      Interactive Statistical Calculation Pages


      First year Ed.D. & MA student reports in Claire's class


      Week 9: Nov 24

      Research design choices
    • research design decision trees


      Week 10: Dec 1

      Summary
      • Course evaluation
      • Final project presentations


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