Program Requirements
The Master of Arts (M.A.) Educational Psychology (Thesis); Health Professions Education focuses on the practice of teaching and learning as they happen in the health professions and throughout the lifespan. Student admission and supervision is done jointly with the Institute of Health Sciences Education (IHSE).
Thesis Courses (18 credits)
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EDPE 604 Thesis 1 (3 credits)
Overview
Ed Psych & Couns (Psychology) : Literature survey and thesis planning.
Terms: Fall 2024, Winter 2025
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
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EDPE 607 Thesis 2 (3 credits)
Overview
Ed Psych & Couns (Psychology) : Preparation of a thesis proposal.
Terms: Fall 2024, Winter 2025
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
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EDPE 693 Thesis 3 (3 credits)
Overview
Ed Psych & Couns (Psychology) : Thesis research under supervision of a research director.
Terms: Fall 2024, Winter 2025
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
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EDPE 694 Thesis 4 (3 credits)
Overview
Ed Psych & Couns (Psychology) : Thesis research under supervision of a research director.
Terms: Fall 2024, Winter 2025
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
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EDPE 695 Thesis 5 (6 credits)
Overview
Ed Psych & Couns (Psychology) : Thesis research under supervision of a research director.
Terms: Fall 2024, Winter 2025
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Prerequisite Course (or equivalent) (3 credits)
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EDPE 575 Statistics for Practitioners (3 credits)
Overview
Ed Psych & Couns (Psychology) : Understanding and interpreting basic statistical procedures used in basic and applied research, including graphs, measures of central tendency and variability, hypothesis testing, and correlations, t-tests, and basic ANOVA designs.
Terms: Winter 2025
Instructors: Robinson, Kristy (Winter)
Prerequisite EDPE 602
Required Courses (15 credits)
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EDPE 605 Research Methods (3 credits)
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 2025
Instructors: Sverdlik, Anna (Winter)
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EDPE 637 Issues in Health Professions Education (3 credits)
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 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
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EDPE 676 Intermediate Statistics (3 credits)
Overview
Ed Psych & Couns (Psychology) : Concepts and procedures of conducting basic descriptive and inferential statistics, including analysis of variance, correlation, and regression models. Provides experience with data-analysis tools.
Terms: Fall 2024
Instructors: Robinson, Kristy (Fall)
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EDPE 682 Univariate/Multivariate Analysis (3 credits)
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 2025
Instructors: Konishi, Chiaki (Winter)
Prerequisite: EDPE 676
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EDPH 689 Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (3 credits)
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 2024, Winter 2025
Instructors: Bateman, Dianne (Fall) Bateman, Dianne (Winter)
Due to the intensive nature of this course, the standard add/drop and withdrawal deadlines do not apply. Add/drop is the third lecture day and withdrawal is the sixth lecture day.
Complementary Courses (12 credits)
12 credits from the following:
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EDPE 535 Instructional Design (3 credits)
Overview
Ed Psych & Couns (Psychology) : This course draws on the fields of learning theory, developmental psychology, and measurement to focus on the tasks of constructing instructional materials. Areas to be considered include behaviour analysis, concept formation, and test construction.
Terms: Winter 2025
Instructors: Bruzzese, Sam (Winter)
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EDPE 555 Socio-Cultural Foundations of Learning Sciences (3 credits)
Overview
Ed Psych & Couns (Psychology) : Examination of foundational theories of the Learning Sciences including contributions by social constructivist theories. Implications of theory on methodologies for the Learning Sciences in general, and for educational and instructional contexts in particular.
Terms: Fall 2024
Instructors: Leung, Enoch (Fall)
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EDPE 635 Theories of Learning and Instruction (3 credits)
Overview
Ed Psych & Couns (Psychology) : An analysis of the relationship between theory and research about learning and teaching from a historical perspective.
Terms: Winter 2025
Instructors: Dub茅, Adam; Erten, Ozlem (Winter)
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EDPE 656 Applied Theory/Methods in the Learning Sciences (3 credits)
Overview
Ed Psych & Couns (Psychology) : Foundational and current theories and methodologies applied to understanding human cognition and learning. An overview of experimental, observational, and physiological research designs, methods, and analyses.
Terms: Winter 2025
Instructors: Lobczowski, Nikki (Winter)
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EDPE 663 Learning Environments (3 credits)
Overview
Ed Psych & Couns (Psychology) : Research on digital environments and tools (e.g., online, mobile) that support learning and developing expertise. Evaluation and application of theory and research on technology-rich educational environments focusing on underlying cognitive and social processes.
Terms: Fall 2024
Instructors: Dub茅, Adam (Fall)
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EDPE 664 Expertise, Reasoning and Problem Solving (3 credits)
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: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
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EDPE 666 Foundations of Learning Science (3 credits)
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 2024
Instructors: Cutumisu, Maria (Fall)
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EDPE 668 Advanced Seminar in Learning Sciences (3 credits)
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 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
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EDPE 687 Qualitative Methods in Educational Psychology (3 credits)
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 2025
Instructors: Sinacore, Ada L (Winter)
or other 500-,or 600-level courses offered by the Department and with the approval of the supervisor and the Program Director.
