The Educational Psychology focus prepares students to conduct quantitative empirical research to advance psychological theory applied to educational issues. Students become well grounded in learning, cognition, and development while acquiring the skills of the quantitative researcher: measurement theory, statistical analysis, research design, evaluation, and qualitative tools to supplement quantitative methods. Scientific research is emphasized as a vehicle to advance theory explaining how people learn, teach, and differ from one another. Students are prepared to conduct research concerned with the discovery and validation of psychological processes and principles that have the potential to optimize human development and learning, and to improve the methodological techniques that are employed in this process.

One of the most important components of the Ph.D. program is the opportunity to work closely with scholars who are actively engaged in research on issues in educational psychology and the program has been carefully designed to facilitate learning experiences of this kind. The faculty for the educational psychology concentration includes experts in developmental, cognitive psychology, statistics, and measurement.

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