Semester: Spring 2024
Days/Times: Tuesdays and Thursdays, 8:50-9:40am
Instructor: Sam Pazicni
Location: 7411 Chemistry
Satisfies prerequisite toward the Delta Certificate: ΔΔ (2 deltas)
Credit: 2 credits through Chemistry 858
Course Description
Have you read education research, and you’d like to better understand the quantitative methods that are used to answer questions about student learning?
This course offers an introduction to quantitative chemistry education research and the theories that underpin it as we move beyond ‘p value’ to explore the quality of the study design and thus the evidence put forward for a particular claim. An understanding of quantitative research methods will be developed and refined throughout the semester based on primary literature discussed in-class. How theoretical frameworks should inform quantitative inquiry will be explored also. Substantial emphasis will be placed on critically reading and analyzing studies in the quantitative chemistry education research literature with an eye toward the implicit and explicit theoretical frameworks informing the work.
Who should take this course: Appropriate for students engaged in discipline-based education research as part of a graduate degree, those interested in pursuing academic careers, and those broadly interested in scholarship related to STEM teaching and learning. No prior experience with coursework in the learning sciences is assumed. It will be helpful if you have read education research.
While this course is not offered through Delta, it counts towards a Delta Certificate. To join, you must enroll in Chemistry 858.