EPY 542 Evidence-based Decision Mkg

This course is designed to prepare students to use evidence to make sound educational decisions regarding students and school and community policies and programs. Therefore, topics to be covered include: an overview of recent accountability legislation and issues of educational assessment, the types of archival and standardized test data collected by school, use of data and theoretical frameworks to define problems, measurement issues and psychometric concepts involved in testing, documentation of change through curriculum-based measurement, and use of descriptive statistics to present and analyze data. Prerequisite: EPY 500. Offered occasionally. (3 credits)