Master of Arts in Educational, School and Counseling Psychology - Statistics, Measurement and Evaluation in Education

This degree is part of the Statistics, Measurement & Evaluation program, housed in the Department of Educational, School and Counseling Psychology. The Statistics, Measurement, and Evaluation in Education program offers several courses in applied statistics, from the quantitative foundations of educational research to advanced methods such as multivariate statistics, multilevel modeling, and latent variable modeling. We also offer a number of courses in educational measurement, covering topics such as in classical test theory, item response theory, and generalizability theory. In addition, our students have the opportunity to take a wide range of advanced statistics and quantitative methods courses, from probability, sampling methodology, and categorical data analysis to stochastic theory, time series analysis, Bayesian statistics, and other cutting-edge quantitative techniques. We train our students in various statistical software programs including SPSS, SAS, R, Mplus, Amos, HLM, and BILOG-MG. Our students also take courses in learning theories, aspects of human development, and program evaluation.

Three letters of recommendation
Curriculum Vita
Official academic transcripts of all previous undergraduate and graduate work
Minimum undergraduate GPA of 3.0 from an accredited institution in psychology education statistics or a related major
Statement of purpose addressing the following
Describe 1 your research interests that you hope to pursue in graduate school 2 your career objectives and 3 how being accepted into MUs program will benefit your career aspirations
Describe interests or experience in designing empirical studies andor analyzing empirical data 500 words max
Describe interest or experiences that demonstrate your potential in applied theoretical andor computational statistics that you believe distinguish you as a candidate for graduate study 250 words max
TOEFL for international students preferred score of 580 for paper test 92 iBT IELTS 7 or higher