Educational and Counselling Psychology, and Special Education - Faculty of Education

MERM M.Ed.Courses

Full standing is granted to those applicants who have completed the pre-requisite courses EPSE 481 (Introduction to Research in Education) and EPSE 482 (Introduction to Statistics for Research in Education) or course accepted as an approved pre-requisite to EPSE 481 and EPSE 482 with 80% or better. Academic background in any domain of Educational or Counselling Psychology, Psychology, Education and related experience is necessary. Students lacking academic preparation and/or experience in education may be required to complete courses in addition to the normal 30 credits. No thesis is required.

Course Number	Course credits	Course Title
Core Courses (12 credits):
EPSE 528	3	Basic Principles of Measurement
EPSE 592	3	Experimental Designs and Analysis in Educational Research
EPSE 595	3	Qualitative Methodologies in Educational Psychology and Special Education
EPSE 596	3	Correlational Designs and Analysis in Educational Research
Approved Methodology Electives (Choose 18 credits):
EPSE 529	3	Test construction
EPSE 581	3	Special Topics in Research Design and Analysis
EPSE 591	3	Theory and Practice of Program Evaluation
EPSE 593	3	Design and Analysis of Research with Small Samples and Single Subjects
EPSE 594	3	Meta-Analysis: Quantitative Research Synthesis
EPSE 597	3	Factor Analysis and its Application to Behavioural Sciences
EPSE 681	3	Special topics (By permission of the instructor and the student's advisory committee)
EPSE 682	3	Multivariate Designs and Analysis in Educational Research. (By permission of the instructor and the student's advisory committee)
With permission of the student's advisory committee, the student may choose up to two non-MERM electives, at least one should be a methodology elective. The other can be a content course or a methodology course. These courses may be in the Department, the Faculty or the University.

Total: 30 credits