Days/Times: Tuesdays and Thursdays, 8:50-9:40am
Instructor: Sam Pazicni
Location: 6409 Chemistry
Credits: 2-3 credits (Chem 858)
Certificate in Higher Education Teaching and Learning: elective
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.
This course is not offered through the Delta Program, but is included as an elective option within the Certificate in Higher Education Teaching and Learning. Enroll directly through your Course Search & Enroll portal.