Conference of Interest

AERA: American Educaitonal Research Association (May)
http://www.aera.net/
submission due in July

APA: American Psychological Association (Augest)
http://www.apa.org/convention/index.aspx
submission due in Oct

IMPS: International Meeting Psychometric Society (July)
http://www.psychometrika.org/meeting/current.html
Submission due in March

1-2 months for the IMPS...

Course Schedule Overview

2012 Fall
EPSY640 Experimental Design I
EPSY622 Measurement and Evaluation in Education
EPSY691 Research


2012 Spring
EPSY641 Experimental Design II
EPSY625 Advanced Psychometric Theory
EPSY651 Theory of Structural Equation Modeling
EPSY652 Theory of HLM
SOCI 631 Quantitative Method in Educaiton


2013 Summer
EPSY602  Educational Psychology
EPSY636  Techniques of Research


2013 Fall
EPSY643 Applied Multivariate Methods
EPSY653 Advanced Structural Equation Modeling
EPSY655 Item Response Theory


2014 Spring
EPSY646 Issues in Child and Adolesent
EPSY673 Learning Theory for Education
EPSY690 Special Topics in Causality

Knowledge Gaps Need to Be Filled

1. List the currently used sample weighting methods and know their equations as well as pros and cons. (due 2/28)

2. To investigate measurement invariance, what kind of criteria were used in a simulation study? what kind of criteria were used in a study with real data. (due 1/31)

3. How to run a simulation study with Mplus and R. (due 3/31)

Course List for 2013 Spring

EPSY 641 Experimental Design in Educaiton II

EPSY 625 Advanced Psychometric Theory

EPSY 651 Theory of Structural Equation Modeling

EPSY 652 Theory of Hierachcal Linear Modeling

SOCI  631 Quantitative Methods (Regression Analysis)



It will be an exciting Spring!!