Attention students: Registration for the Spring 2011 term will begin Monday, November 1st. The Department of Educational Policy Studies and Evaluation has a number of courses available to choose from. Below are just a few of the courses we have to offer.
EPE 570-001 Gathering, Analyzing, & Using Educational Data II
The course covers applications of statistical and graphical methods. Topics to be covered include descriptive statistics, correlation, normal distributions, hypothesis testing, regression, ANOVA, and power. General goals of this course include: developing an understanding of statistical concepts, improving reasoning and critical thinking skills, and to prepare students for more advanced quantitative courses. Students will gain valuable statistical computing skills utilizing MINITAB Statistical Software. This class may be used as an introductory statistics course, as a follow-up course to 557 for those that feel they may need an additional course before moving on to 660, or as a final quantitative course for those that need an introduction to anova/regression as their highest level of statistics. Check out course materials at www.uky.edu/~kdbrad2 EPE 570-001 meets Thursdays from 9:30- Noon in Room 246 Taylor Education Building. Dr. Kelly Bradley will leading this course. Contact Dr. Bradley with additional questions at kdbrad2@uky.edu.
EPE 632-401 Student Services
This course focuses on students services (broadly defined) and those who work with college and university students outside of the academic arena. The course not only surveys the history of student services but critically examines its theoretical bases and current practices with special attention paid to the relationship between students services and other segments of campus.
EPE 632-401 meets Mondays from 6:30-9 PM in Room 113 of the Patterson Office Tower. This course will be taught by Dr. Judy Jackson, Vice President of UK's Office for Institutional Diversity.
EPE 640-001 Philosophy of Education
"I believe more than ever in the importance of philosophy of education (see my retirement statement in the readings for the ProSeminar*). Philosophy examines people's beliefs for what they assume about the nature of knowledge, reality and value. Philosophy can enable educators to better understand positions that challenge their own, and find grounds for for common agreement among them."
EPE 640-001 meets Thursdays from 4-6:30 PM in Room 203 Dickey Hall. This class will be led by Dr. Clinton Collins, Emeritus Faculty in the Department of Educational Policy Studies and Evaluation.
*For a copy of Dr. Collins retirement statment, contact Amberly at aaburk00@uky.edu .
EPE 525/773-001 Seminar in Educational Policy Studies & Evaluation "On Display: Collections, Exhibitions and Politics"
Why would a student of education take an interest in museums and collections? Because reflection this broad topic promises to enlarge your imagination about education and its history. The readings for the course (as well as our weekly discussions) will be organized around two basic texts: Steven Conn, Museums and American Intellectual Life, 1876-1926 (Chicago,1998) and Andrew McClellan, The Art Museum: From Boulee to Bilbao (California, 2008). Three field trips to different types of museums in Cincinnati are also planned. A 20 page paper on a topic of your choosing will be due at the end of the course.
EPE 525/773-001 meets Tuesdays from 4-6:30 PM in Room 129 Dickey Hall. This course will be co-taught by Dr. Richard Angelo and Dr. Wallace Miller of UK's College of Design. It is also cross listed with ARC 512 and A-H 528.
EPE 525/773-002 Seminar in Educational Policy Studies & Evaluation "History of Education in Kentucky"
This is a seminar in the classical sense: the emphasis is on conducting research. Open to advanced as well as beginning graduate students, it represents an opportunity to work on a local history topic of your choosing in a systematic way. Consistent with that aim, common readings will be kept to a minimum (e.g., Ronald Butchart, Local Schools: Exploring their History (Alta Mira Pres, 1986)
EPE 525/773-002 meets Thursdays from 12:30-3 PM in Room 127 Dickey Hall. This course will be led by Dr. Richard Angelo.
EPE 773-003 Seminar in Educational Policy Studies & Evaluation "Introduction to Rasch Measurement"
The purpose of the course is to introduce participants to the theory and applications of Rasch measurement and provide hands-on experience using Winsteps. Students will become effective consumers of research employing Rasch measurement and the foundation to solve practical measurement problems.
EPE 773-003 meets Thursdays from 12:30-3 PM in Room 140 Taylor Education Building. Dr. Kelly Bradley will be instructing this course.
EPE 773-004 Seminar in Educational Policy Studies & Evaluation "Applied Structural Equation Modeling- With an application in latent growth curve modeling (LGM)"
Applied structural equation modeling (SEM): With an application in latent growth curve modeling (LGM)) covers a variety of topics in SEM where a smaller number of latent variables are assumed to exist that explain covariances and correlations between observed/manifest variables: Observed data from dozens of personality test items purport to indirectly measure a handful of such latent personality traits as extroversion and introversion. Topics in this course include the following: review of basic concepts (mean, correlation, covariance, etc.), path analysis of observed measures, confirmatory factor analysis (CFA), general structural equation models incorporating measurement and structural models, etc. Both single-group analysis and multiple-group comparison will be covered. This course will also provide an introduction of analyzing longitudinal data from the SEM perspective, or latent growth curve modeling.
EPE 773-004 meets Thursdays from 4-6:30 PM in Room 140 Taylor Education Building. Dr. Hongwei (Patrick) Yang will be teaching this course. Please email Amberly at aaburk00@uky.edu for a detailed copy of the syllabus of this course. If you have further questions, please contact Dr. Yang at hya222@uky.edu .
EPE 773-401 Seminar in Educational Policy Studies & Evaluation "Global Education and Popular Culture" meets Mondays from 7-9:30 PM in Room 122 Taylor Education Building. This course will be taught by Dr. Karen Tice.
EPE 798-001 Seminar in Higher Education "Legal Issues in Student Affairs"
This course will offer a focused inquiry into legal issues in higher education in relation to common legal issues encountered by student affairs professionals, especially in regards to their work with students. The course will cover topics that include student liability, privacy issues (especially in relation to FERPA), student speech rights, and student conduct. While there is not any pre-requisite for the course, it will be helpful to have had an introductory higher education law course. For those students not having had such a course, they should be prepared to engage in additional reading and preparation so that they will find the materials in the course meaningful.
EPE 798-001 meets Thursdays from 4-6:30 in Room 127 Dickey Hall. Dr. Neal Hutchens leads this course.
EPE 798-002 Seminar in Higher Education "Post Secondary Transitions"
This course is designed as a survey of the stages of post-secondary transition common to most college students. The format of the class is a series of seven modules which trace student progress from high school through college graduation. We will focus on the following transitions: secondary enrichment and acceleration programs (e.g. dual enrollment); summer bridge programs; first year orientation programming; general education; community college transfer to the four year; transition into the discipline/major; and senior capstone activities. In each module, we will review current models of practice, their conceptual rationales, and methods of assessment and evaluation. Students will select four of the seven topics to develop in-depth white papers demonstrating a critical analysis of a problem of practice in those areas.
EPE 798-002 meets Tuesdays from 9:30 AM- Noon in Room 127 Dickey Hall. Dr. Jane Jensen will be instructing this course. For more information about the course, contact Dr. Jane Jensen jjensen@uky.edu.
EPE 798-401 Seminar in Higher Education "Sociology of Education: Education & Inequality"
We will examine, from a sociological perspective, the myriad of ways in which formal education systems affect and are affected by inequality in industrial and post-industrial societies. With a focus on the role of education, we will survey established and emerging sociological explanations of inequality. We will also evaluate a theoretically and methodologically diverse sample of sociological studies of inequality in education and inequality produced or maintained by education.
EPE 798-401 meets Thursdays from 7-9:30 PM in Room 127 Dickey Hall. Dr. Eric Reed teaches this course.
