Data Management for Education Research (Fall 2025)
This course equips students with essential skills in data management and analysis. Students will practice foundational techniques in cleaning and transforming datasets, maintaining clear documentation for reproducibility, and using statistical tools and visualizations to examine education-related questions.
Introduction to Research (Summer 2024)
Designed to introduce students to social science research methods, including quantitative, qualitative, and mixed-method approaches to education inquiry. Students develop skills in conducting literature searches, reading empirical research studies, and applying these methods.
Disability, Education, and Public Policy (Spring 2024)
In this course, students critically analyze the historical treatment of individuals with disabilities, engage in discussions surrounding contemporary ethical dilemmas, familiarize themselves with relevant federal legislation, and develop a foundational understanding of inclusive educational methodologies and practices.
Statistics Workshop (Summer 2024)
This three-day workshop provides incoming Boston University Wheelock graduate students an overview of foundational statistical knowledge and skills to prepare them for the statistics course sequence they will take as part of their program of study.
Causal Design in Education Research (Spring 2025, Spring 2023)
This course introduces students to research designs commonly used in education research that plausibly allow for causal claims. Topics include randomized field trials, regression discontinuity, differences-in- differences, and instrumental variables.
Introduction to Research (Summer 2022, Fall 2021)
Designed to introduce students to social science research methods, including quantitative, qualitative, and mixed-method approaches to education inquiry. Students develop skills in conducting literature searches, reading empirical research studies, and applying these methods.
Quantitative Research Methods (Fall 2026)
This graduate-level course introduces foundational statistical approaches for educational research, including descriptive and inferential procedures. Students explore the assumptions underlying these techniques, the implications of violations, and approaches for addressing them, with particular emphasis on interpretation.
Economics of Growth and Development (Spring 2021)
This course introduces key concepts in modern macroeconomics and international economics. It trains students to interpret macroeconomic statistics and to understand how fiscal, monetary, trade, and exchange rate policies affect the economy.
Introduction to Public Policy (Fall 2021)
This course provides theoretical and practical components for understanding the policy-making process. It explores factors determining the nature of public issues, the influence of actors on government agendas, the process of seeking solutions, reaching policy decisions, and the key features of policy implementation and evaluation.