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Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.); Educational Psychology

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Offered by: Educational&Counselling Psych     Degree: Doctor of Philosophy

Program Requirements

Required Courses (12 credits)

  • EDPE 605 Research Methods (3 credits)

    Offered by: Educational&Counselling Psych (Faculty of Education)

    Administered by: Graduate Studies

    Overview

    Ed Psych & Couns (Psychology) : Research methods and designs, planning and evaluating research, relations between research and statistical designs, interdisciplinary and nonquantitative approaches, meta-analysis, and the use of computers beyond computation. Ethics, scholarly writing.

    Terms: Winter 2012

    Instructors: Shaw, Steven (Winter)

  • EDPE 676 Intermediate Statistics (3 credits)

    Offered by: Educational&Counselling Psych (Faculty of Education)

    Administered by: Graduate Studies

    Overview

    Ed Psych & Couns (Psychology) : Analysis of variance, fixed, random and mixed effects, crossed and nested designs; regression models. Computer data processing using existing packages.

    Terms: Fall 2011

    Instructors: Smith, Nathan (Fall)

  • EDPE 682 Univariate/Multivariate Analysis (3 credits)

    Offered by: Educational&Counselling Psych (Faculty of Education)

    Administered by: Graduate Studies

    Overview

    Ed Psych & Couns (Psychology) : General linear model as a unified data analytic system for estimation and hypothesis testing that subsumes regression, analysis of variance, and analysis of covariance for single dependent variables. Introduction to generalizations involving multiple dependent (criterion) variables. Applications oriented toward education, educational psychology and counselling psychology. Experience with data-analysis tools.

    Terms: Winter 2012

    Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2011-2012 academic year.

  • EDPE 708 Comprehensive Examination

    Offered by: Educational&Counselling Psych (Faculty of Education)

    Administered by: Graduate Studies

    Overview

    Ed Psych & Couns (Psychology) : A four-part evaluation which is normally taken at the end of the Ph.D. 2 year. A detailed description of the examination is provided to all students.

    Terms: Fall 2011, Winter 2012, Summer 2012

    Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2011-2012 academic year.

  • EDPH 689 Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (3 credits)

    Offered by: Educational&Counselling Psych (Faculty of Education)

    Administered by: Graduate Studies

    Overview

    Ed Psych & Couns (Collegial) : Students will develop an understanding of teaching and learning as a process in which instruction is based on the learning to be accomplished. Students will design, develop, and evaluate a university course of their choice, and will develop facility and confidence in using teaching methods appropriate to their domains.

    Terms: Fall 2011, Winter 2012, Summer 2012

    Instructors: Kerwin-Boudreau, Susan; Bateman, Dianne (Fall) Bateman, Dianne; Kerwin-Boudreau, Susan (Winter) Bateman, Dianne (Summer)

Complementary Courses (30 credits)

3 credits from:

  • EDPE 684 Applied Multivariate Statistics (3 credits)

    Offered by: Educational&Counselling Psych (Faculty of Education)

    Administered by: Graduate Studies

    Overview

    Ed Psych & Couns (Psychology) : Principal methods, models, and hypothesis-testing procedures for the prediction and analysis of patterns, structure, and relationships in multivariate date, e.g., discriminant, principal components, canonical correlation, profile analyses, measurement models, factor and path analysis, repeated measures. Applications oriented toward education and educational and counselling psychology. Experience with data-analysis tools.

    Terms: Fall 2011

    Instructors: Bracewell, Robert J (Fall)

  • EDPE 687 Qualitative Methods in Educational Psychology (3 credits)

    Offered by: Educational&Counselling Psych (Faculty of Education)

    Administered by: Graduate Studies

    Overview

    Ed Psych & Couns (Psychology) : The logics of design and selection of phenomenology, grounded theory, ethnography, case study and mixed design methods with emphasis on data analysis in light of issues of research purpose, epistemology, reliability and validity.

    Terms: Winter 2012

    Instructors: Ruglis, Jessica (Winter)

    • Prerequisites: EDPE 605 or equivalent or permission of the instructor

27 credits to be taken from one of the two streams:

Learning Sciences Stream (27 credits)

18 credits from:

  • EDPE 655 Learning Science Research Seminar (3 credits)

    Offered by: Educational&Counselling Psych (Faculty of Education)

    Administered by: Graduate Studies

    Overview

    Ed Psych & Couns (Psychology) : Seminar treating current issues in theory, research and methodology in the learning sciences.

    Terms: Fall 2011

    Instructors: Lajoie, Susanne P; Azevedo, Roger (Fall)

    • Prerequisite: EDPE 666 - Foundations of Learning Science or permission of instructor. Prerequisites cannot be taken at the same time as this course.

    • Restrictions: The content of course is sufficiently different to benefit those students who would wish to take the course again.

  • EDPE 666 Foundations of Learning Science (3 credits)

    Offered by: Educational&Counselling Psych (Faculty of Education)

    Administered by: Graduate Studies

    Overview

    Ed Psych & Couns (Psychology) : An introduction to theory and research pertaining to the interdisciplinary study of the learning sciences. Focuses on cognitive-psychological and social-psychological foundations of human leaning, as well as on the design of learning environments.

    Terms: Fall 2011

    Instructors: Lajoie, Susanne P (Fall)

    • Prerequisites: A 500- or 600-level graduate course in cognitive or instructional psychology or permission of instructor

  • EDPE 704 Advanced Research Seminar 1 (3 credits)

    Offered by: Educational&Counselling Psych (Faculty of Education)

    Administered by: Graduate Studies

    Overview

    Ed Psych & Couns (Psychology) : Issues in epistemology and methodology of research on human learning and instruction. Consideration of theoretical, design, and methodological approaches relevant to participants' proposed research project. Preparation for the comprehensive examination and initial doctoral research proposal.

    Terms: Fall 2011

    Instructors: Breuleux, Alain; Bracewell, Robert J (Fall)

    • Prerequisites: EDPE 666 - Foundations of Learning Science, EDPE 655 - Learning Sciences research Seminar

  • EDPE 705 Advanced Research Seminar 2 (3 credits)

    Offered by: Educational&Counselling Psych (Faculty of Education)

    Administered by: Graduate Studies

    Overview

    Ed Psych & Couns (Psychology) : Continuation of Advanced Research Seminar 1.

    Terms: Winter 2012

    Instructors: Breuleux, Alain; Bracewell, Robert J (Winter)

    • Prerequisites: EDPE 666 - Foundations of Learning Sciences EDPE 655 - Learning Sciences Research Seminar EDPE 704 - Advanced Research Seminar 1

    • Restrictions: Open to doctoral students only

  • EDPE 706 Advanced Research Seminar 3 (3 credits)

    Offered by: Educational&Counselling Psych (Faculty of Education)

    Administered by: Graduate Studies

    Overview

    Ed Psych & Couns (Psychology) : Continuation of Advanced Research Seminar 2.

    Terms: Fall 2011

    Instructors: Breuleux, Alain; Bracewell, Robert J (Fall)

    • Prerequisites: EDPE 666 - Foundations of Learning Sciences, EDPE 655 - Learning Sciences Research Seminar, EDPE 704 - Advanced Research Seminar 1, EDPE 705 - Advanced Research Seminar 2

    • Restrictions: Open to doctoral students only

  • EDPE 707 Advanced Research Seminar 4 (3 credits)

    Offered by: Educational&Counselling Psych (Faculty of Education)

    Administered by: Graduate Studies

    Overview

    Ed Psych & Couns (Psychology) : Continuation of Advanced Research Seminar 3.

    Terms: Winter 2012

    Instructors: Breuleux, Alain; Bracewell, Robert J (Winter)

    • Prerequisites: EDPE 666 - Foundations of Learning Sciences, EDPE 655 - Learning Sciences Research Seminar, EDPE 704 - Advanced Research Seminar 1, EDPE 705 - Advanced Research Seminar 2, EDPE 706 - Advanced Research Seminar 3

    • Restrictions: Open to doctoral students only

and 9 credits from:

  • EDPE 637 Issues in Health Professions Education (3 credits)

    Offered by: Educational&Counselling Psych (Faculty of Education)

    Administered by: Graduate Studies

    Overview

    Ed Psych & Couns (Psychology) : An overview of health professions education issues, including: learning and assessment in the clinical setting, medical core competencies, design, delivery and evaluation of health professions education programs, organization & management of health professions education programs and systems, organizational change and leadership, clinical reasoning and decision making, interdisciplinary education.

    Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2011-2012 academic year.

    Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2011-2012 academic year.

  • EDPE 648 Instructional Psychology Seminar (3 credits)

    Offered by: Educational&Counselling Psych (Faculty of Education)

    Administered by: Graduate Studies

    Overview

    Ed Psych & Couns (Psychology) : Theoretical, methodological, and empirical bases of research in instructional processes.

    Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2011-2012 academic year.

    Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2011-2012 academic year.

    • Prerequisite: EDPE 666 and EDPE 635 or permission of the instructor.
    • Prerequisites can be taken at the same time as this course.
  • EDPE 656 Applied Cognitive Theory/Methods (3 credits)

    Offered by: Educational&Counselling Psych (Faculty of Education)

    Administered by: Graduate Studies

    Overview

    Ed Psych & Couns (Psychology) : Models of knowledge representation, cognitive architectures, and cognitive processes for complex domains of performance and instruction. Methods of data collection that allow testing of models of performance and learning in such domains.

    Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2011-2012 academic year.

    Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2011-2012 academic year.

    • Prerequisite: EDPE 555 or permission of instructor.
  • EDPE 661 Discourse Processes (3 credits)

    Offered by: Educational&Counselling Psych (Faculty of Education)

    Administered by: Graduate Studies

    Overview

    Ed Psych & Couns (Psychology) : Structure and function of discourse processes. Topics include language acquisition, syntactic and semantic processes, text comprehension, spoken versus written discourse, classroom discourse, narrative discourse, literary discourse, computational discourse, and an overview of methods for discourse analysis.

    Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2011-2012 academic year.

    Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2011-2012 academic year.

    • Prerequisites: EDPE 666 or permission of the instructor
    • Corequisites: EDPE 655 and EDPE 666 or permission of instructor
  • EDPE 663 Learning Environments and Processes (3 credits)

    Offered by: Educational&Counselling Psych (Faculty of Education)

    Administered by: Graduate Studies

    Overview

    Ed Psych & Couns (Psychology) : Research on natural and designed contexts to support learning and development of expertise: social and cognitive processes underlying effective participation and learning in collaborative learning environments including those mediated by technology.

    Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2011-2012 academic year.

    Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2011-2012 academic year.

    • Prerequisites: EDPE 666 or equivalent of permission of instructor
    • Corequisites: EDPE 655 or permission of instructor
  • EDPE 664 Expertise, Reasoning and Problem Solving (3 credits)

    Offered by: Educational&Counselling Psych (Faculty of Education)

    Administered by: Graduate Studies

    Overview

    Ed Psych & Couns (Psychology) : Current research on the development of expertise, problem solving, and reasoning in formal and informal educational settings, exploring cognitive, interpersonal, and socio-cultural dimensions. Introduction to methodologies for analyzing data related to cognitive processes.

    Terms: Winter 2012

    Instructors: Azevedo, Roger (Winter)

    • Prerequisites: EDPE 666 or permission of the instructor

    • Corequisites: EDPE 655

  • EDPE 668 Advanced Seminar in Learning Sciences (3 credits)

    Offered by: Educational&Counselling Psych (Faculty of Education)

    Administered by: Graduate Studies

    Overview

    Ed Psych & Couns (Psychology) : Critical analysis and synthesis of contemporary theoretical and empirical research in educational psychology and cognate areas. Topics addressed for each offering may change as a function of current debates and issues in the educational literature. Examples of topics would be motivation, assessment, epistemology, self-regulated learning, and metacognition.

    Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2011-2012 academic year.

    Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2011-2012 academic year.

    • Prerequisites: EDPE 666 - Foundation of Learning Science or EDPE 605 Research Methods or permission of the instructor
    • Corequisites: EDPE 655 Learning Sciences Research Seminar or permission of the instructor

Human Development Stream (27 credits)

15 credits from:

  • EDPE 502 Theories of Development and Disabilities (3 credits)

    Offered by: Educational&Counselling Psych (Faculty of Education)

    Overview

    Ed Psych & Couns (Psychology) : Developmental theory to form a foundation for scholarly, empirical, and applied work with both typical and atypical populations.

    Terms: Fall 2011

    Instructors: Bloom, Elana (Fall)

  • EDPE 672 Human Development Seminar 1 (3 credits)

    Offered by: Educational&Counselling Psych (Faculty of Education)

    Administered by: Graduate Studies

    Overview

    Ed Psych & Couns (Psychology) : Theories and developments in the science of human development within the context of research and practice and the evolution of the field at large.

    Terms: Fall 2011

    Instructors: Heath, Nancy Lee; Burack, Jacob A (Fall)

    • Prerequisite: EDPE 502 or permission of the instructor (Minimum Grade/Test score(s) needed is B-).

  • EDPE 673 Human Development Seminar 2 (3 credits)

    Offered by: Educational&Counselling Psych (Faculty of Education)

    Administered by: Graduate Studies

    Overview

    Ed Psych & Couns (Psychology) : Continuation of theories and developments in the science of human development within the context of research and practice and evolution of the field at large.

    Terms: Winter 2012

    Instructors: Heath, Nancy Lee; Burack, Jacob A (Winter)

    • Prerequisite: EDPE 672 (Minimum Grade/Test score(s) needed is B-).

  • EDPE 683 Human Development Seminar 3 (3 credits)

    Offered by: Educational&Counselling Psych (Faculty of Education)

    Administered by: Graduate Studies

    Overview

    Ed Psych & Couns (Psychology) : Recent developments of specific topics in human development.

    Terms: Fall 2011

    Instructors: Heath, Nancy Lee; Burack, Jacob A (Fall)

    • Prerequisite: EDPE 673 (Minimum Grade/Test score(s) needed is B-).

  • EDPE 686 Human Development Seminar 4 (3 credits)

    Offered by: Educational&Counselling Psych (Faculty of Education)

    Administered by: Graduate Studies

    Overview

    Ed Psych & Couns (Psychology) : Continuation of recent developments of specific topics in human development.

    Terms: Winter 2012

    Instructors: Heath, Nancy Lee; Burack, Jacob A (Winter)

    • Prerequisite: EDPE 683 (Minimum Grade/Test score(s) needed is B-).

12 credits from:

  • EDPE 515 Gender Identity Development (3 credits)

    Offered by: Educational&Counselling Psych (Faculty of Education)

    Overview

    Ed Psych & Couns (Psychology) : Theoretical models and empirical findings relevant to the development of gender identity. Special attention is given to the influence of peers in school settings. Psychological, physiological, parental, peer and cultural influences on gender identity.

    Terms: Fall 2011

    Instructors: Pasto, Luigi (Fall)

    • Prerequisites: EDPE 208, EDPE 300 or a course in developmental psychology

    • Offered through Continuing Education.

  • EDPE 616 Cognitive Development (3 credits)

    Offered by: Educational&Counselling Psych (Faculty of Education)

    Administered by: Graduate Studies

    Overview

    Ed Psych & Couns (Psychology) : Assessment of theories of cognitive development including Piagetian, neo-Piagetian, and information-processing approaches. Theoretical models and empirical findings, and their application to educational and other settings.

    Terms: Fall 2011

    Instructors: Cassidy, Robert (Fall)

  • EDPE 620 Developmental Psychopathology (3 credits)

    Offered by: Educational&Counselling Psych (Faculty of Education)

    Administered by: Graduate Studies

    Overview

    Ed Psych & Couns (Psychology) : Theory, research, and practice in developmental processes in the study of psychopathology, including aberrant behaviour in childhood, at-risk and resilient children, and mental illness.

    Terms: Fall 2011, Winter 2012

    Instructors: Burack, Jacob A (Fall) Burack, Jacob A (Winter)

  • EDPE 623 Social-Emotional Development (3 credits)

    Offered by: Educational&Counselling Psych (Faculty of Education)

    Administered by: Graduate Studies

    Overview

    Ed Psych & Couns (Psychology) : Social-emotional development including temperament, attachment, gender identity, and peer relations. Biological and environmental influences, continuity and change, and qualitative versus quantitative variables.

    Terms: Winter 2012

    Instructors: Cassidy, Robert (Winter)

  • EDPI 642 Education of Learners/Special Needs 1 (3 credits)

    Offered by: Educational&Counselling Psych (Faculty of Education)

    Administered by: Graduate Studies

    Overview

    Ed Psych & Couns (Inclusive) : Introduction to learners with different types of special needs. Emphasis on current research and practice of educating students with special needs.

    Terms: Fall 2011

    Instructors: Cohen-Gazith, Karen (Fall)

  • EDPI 643 Education of Learners/Special Needs 2 (3 credits)

    Offered by: Educational&Counselling Psych (Faculty of Education)

    Administered by: Graduate Studies

    Overview

    Ed Psych & Couns (Inclusive) : Contemporary issues in the education of students with special needs: assessment and identification; service delivery models; instructional methods; parent/professional relationships; research priorities; legislative policies; adult education; employment training.

    Terms: Winter 2012

    Instructors: Cohen-Gazith, Karen (Winter)

  • EDPI 756 Internship/Special Needs Education (3 credits)

    Offered by: Educational&Counselling Psych (Faculty of Education)

    Administered by: Graduate Studies

    Overview

    Ed Psych & Couns (Inclusive) : Supervised internship in special needs education in a field setting tailored to the needs and interests of individual students.

    Terms: Winter 2012

    Instructors: Burack, Jacob A (Winter)

Or from the list of 500-, 600-, and 700-level courses offered by the Department and with the approval of the supervisor and program committee.

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