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Master of Arts (M.A.); Educational Psychology (Thesis) (48 credits)

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Offered by: Educational&Counselling Psych     Degree: Master of Arts

Program Requirements

Thesis Courses (24 credits)

  • EDPE 604 Thesis 1 (3 credits)

    Offered by: Educational&Counselling Psych (Faculty of Education)

    Administered by: Graduate Studies

    Overview

    Ed Psych & Couns (Psychology) : Literature survey and thesis planning.

    Terms: Fall 2011, Winter 2012, Summer 2012

    Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2011-2012 academic year.

  • EDPE 607 Thesis 2 (3 credits)

    Offered by: Educational&Counselling Psych (Faculty of Education)

    Administered by: Graduate Studies

    Overview

    Ed Psych & Couns (Psychology) : Preparation of a thesis proposal.

    Terms: Fall 2011, Winter 2012, Summer 2012

    Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2011-2012 academic year.

  • EDPE 693 Thesis 3 (3 credits)

    Offered by: Educational&Counselling Psych (Faculty of Education)

    Administered by: Graduate Studies

    Overview

    Ed Psych & Couns (Psychology) : Thesis research under supervision of a research director.

    Terms: Fall 2011, Winter 2012, Summer 2012

    Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2011-2012 academic year.

  • EDPE 694 Thesis 4 (3 credits)

    Offered by: Educational&Counselling Psych (Faculty of Education)

    Administered by: Graduate Studies

    Overview

    Ed Psych & Couns (Psychology) : Thesis research under supervision of a research director.

    Terms: Fall 2011, Winter 2012, Summer 2012

    Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2011-2012 academic year.

  • EDPE 695 Thesis 5 (6 credits)

    Offered by: Educational&Counselling Psych (Faculty of Education)

    Administered by: Graduate Studies

    Overview

    Ed Psych & Couns (Psychology) : Thesis research under supervision of a research director.

    Terms: Fall 2011, Winter 2012, Summer 2012

    Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2011-2012 academic year.

  • EDPE 696 Thesis 6 (6 credits)

    Offered by: Educational&Counselling Psych (Faculty of Education)

    Administered by: Graduate Studies

    Overview

    Ed Psych & Couns (Psychology) : Thesis research under supervision of a research director.

    Terms: Fall 2011, Winter 2012, Summer 2012

    Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2011-2012 academic year.

Prerequisite Course (or equivalent) - All Streams (3 credits)

  • EDPE 575 Educational Measurement (3 credits)

    Offered by: Educational&Counselling Psych (Faculty of Education)

    Overview

    Ed Psych & Couns (Psychology) : Statistical measurements in education, graphs, charts, frequency distributions, central tendencies, dispersion, correlation, and sampling errors.

    Terms: Fall 2011, Winter 2012, Summer 2012

    Instructors: Gomez-Garibello, Carlos (Fall) Hoover, Michael L (Winter) Muis, Krista (Summer)

    • Offered through Continuing Education and Summer Studies.

Required Courses (9 credits)

  • EDPE 605 Research Methods (3 credits)

    Offered by: Educational&Counselling Psych (Faculty of Education)

    Administered by: Graduate Studies

    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 2012

    Instructors: Shaw, Steven (Winter)

  • EDPE 676 Intermediate Statistics (3 credits)

    Offered by: Educational&Counselling Psych (Faculty of Education)

    Administered by: Graduate Studies

    Overview

    Ed Psych & Couns (Psychology) : Analysis of variance, fixed, random and mixed effects, crossed and nested designs; regression models. Computer data processing using existing packages.

    Terms: Fall 2011

    Instructors: Smith, Nathan (Fall)

  • EDPE 682 Univariate/Multivariate Analysis (3 credits)

    Offered by: Educational&Counselling Psych (Faculty of Education)

    Administered by: Graduate Studies

    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 2012

    Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2011-2012 academic year.

Complementary Courses (15 credits)

To be taken from one of the three following streams. Students completing the School/Applied Child Psychology Stream should refer to the course list at the end:

Learning Sciences Stream (15 credits)

6 credits from the following:

  • EDPE 655 Learning Science Research Seminar (3 credits)

    Offered by: Educational&Counselling Psych (Faculty of Education)

    Administered by: Graduate Studies

    Overview

    Ed Psych & Couns (Psychology) : Seminar treating current issues in theory, research and methodology in the learning sciences.

    Terms: Fall 2011

    Instructors: Lajoie, Susanne P; Azevedo, Roger (Fall)

    • Prerequisite: EDPE 666 - Foundations of Learning Science or permission of instructor. Prerequisites cannot be taken at the same time as this course.

    • Restrictions: The content of course is sufficiently different to benefit those students who would wish to take the course again.

  • EDPE 666 Foundations of Learning Science (3 credits)

    Offered by: Educational&Counselling Psych (Faculty of Education)

    Administered by: Graduate Studies

    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 2011

    Instructors: Lajoie, Susanne P (Fall)

    • Prerequisites: A 500- or 600-level graduate course in cognitive or instructional psychology or permission of instructor

and 9 credits selected from the following:

  • EDPE 637 Issues in Health Professions Education (3 credits)

    Offered by: Educational&Counselling Psych (Faculty of Education)

    Administered by: Graduate Studies

    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 2011-2012 academic year.

    Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2011-2012 academic year.

  • EDPE 648 Instructional Psychology Seminar (3 credits)

    Offered by: Educational&Counselling Psych (Faculty of Education)

    Administered by: Graduate Studies

    Overview

    Ed Psych & Couns (Psychology) : Theoretical, methodological, and empirical bases of research in instructional processes.

    Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2011-2012 academic year.

    Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2011-2012 academic year.

    • Prerequisite: EDPE 666 and EDPE 635 or permission of the instructor.
    • Prerequisites can be taken at the same time as this course.
  • EDPE 656 Applied Cognitive Theory/Methods (3 credits)

    Offered by: Educational&Counselling Psych (Faculty of Education)

    Administered by: Graduate Studies

    Overview

    Ed Psych & Couns (Psychology) : Models of knowledge representation, cognitive architectures, and cognitive processes for complex domains of performance and instruction. Methods of data collection that allow testing of models of performance and learning in such domains.

    Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2011-2012 academic year.

    Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2011-2012 academic year.

    • Prerequisite: EDPE 555 or permission of instructor.
  • EDPE 661 Discourse Processes (3 credits)

    Offered by: Educational&Counselling Psych (Faculty of Education)

    Administered by: Graduate Studies

    Overview

    Ed Psych & Couns (Psychology) : Structure and function of discourse processes. Topics include language acquisition, syntactic and semantic processes, text comprehension, spoken versus written discourse, classroom discourse, narrative discourse, literary discourse, computational discourse, and an overview of methods for discourse analysis.

    Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2011-2012 academic year.

    Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2011-2012 academic year.

    • Prerequisites: EDPE 666 or permission of the instructor
    • Corequisites: EDPE 655 and EDPE 666 or permission of instructor
  • EDPE 663 Learning Environments and Processes (3 credits)

    Offered by: Educational&Counselling Psych (Faculty of Education)

    Administered by: Graduate Studies

    Overview

    Ed Psych & Couns (Psychology) : Research on natural and designed contexts to support learning and development of expertise: social and cognitive processes underlying effective participation and learning in collaborative learning environments including those mediated by technology.

    Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2011-2012 academic year.

    Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2011-2012 academic year.

    • Prerequisites: EDPE 666 or equivalent of permission of instructor
    • Corequisites: EDPE 655 or permission of instructor
  • EDPE 664 Expertise, Reasoning and Problem Solving (3 credits)

    Offered by: Educational&Counselling Psych (Faculty of Education)

    Administered by: Graduate Studies

    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: Winter 2012

    Instructors: Azevedo, Roger (Winter)

    • Prerequisites: EDPE 666 or permission of the instructor

    • Corequisites: EDPE 655

  • EDPE 668 Advanced Seminar in Learning Sciences (3 credits)

    Offered by: Educational&Counselling Psych (Faculty of Education)

    Administered by: Graduate Studies

    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 2011-2012 academic year.

    Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2011-2012 academic year.

    • Prerequisites: EDPE 666 - Foundation of Learning Science or EDPE 605 Research Methods or permission of the instructor
    • Corequisites: EDPE 655 Learning Sciences Research Seminar or permission of the instructor
  • EDPE 687 Qualitative Methods in Educational Psychology (3 credits)

    Offered by: Educational&Counselling Psych (Faculty of Education)

    Administered by: Graduate Studies

    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 2012

    Instructors: Ruglis, Jessica (Winter)

    • Prerequisites: EDPE 605 or equivalent or permission of the instructor

Health Professions Stream (15 credits)

6 credits from the following:

Note: Students may select to take either EDPE 639 or EDPH 689, but not both.

  • EDPE 637 Issues in Health Professions Education (3 credits)

    Offered by: Educational&Counselling Psych (Faculty of Education)

    Administered by: Graduate Studies

    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 2011-2012 academic year.

    Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2011-2012 academic year.

  • EDPE 639 Practicum in Health Professions Education (3 credits) *

    Offered by: Educational&Counselling Psych (Faculty of Education)

    Administered by: Graduate Studies

    Overview

    Ed Psych & Couns (Psychology) : Practical exposure to teaching, learning, and evaluation in health professions education, including participant/observer experience in ambulatory clinics, inpatient settings, operating rooms, small group sessions, lectures, laboratories, and seminars. Seminars for discussion and reflection on experiences.

    Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2011-2012 academic year.

    Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2011-2012 academic year.

    • Restriction: Approval by instructor and Program Director required for registration.
  • EDPH 689 Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (3 credits) *

    Offered by: Educational&Counselling Psych (Faculty of Education)

    Administered by: Graduate Studies

    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 2011, Winter 2012, Summer 2012

    Instructors: Kerwin-Boudreau, Susan; Bateman, Dianne (Fall) Bateman, Dianne; Kerwin-Boudreau, Susan (Winter) Bateman, Dianne (Summer)

and 9 credits selected from the following:

  • EDPE 535 Instructional Design (3 credits)

    Offered by: Educational&Counselling Psych (Faculty of Education)

    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 2012

    Instructors: Gebre, Engida (Winter)

  • EDPE 555 Applied Cognitive Science (3 credits)

    Offered by: Educational&Counselling Psych (Faculty of Education)

    Overview

    Ed Psych & Couns (Psychology) : Examination of foundations of cognitive science including contributions by psychology, linguistics, and computer science. Consideration of theory and methodology or cognitive science in educational and instructional contexts.

    Terms: Fall 2011

    Instructors: Breuleux, Alain (Fall)

  • EDPE 635 Theories of Learning and Instruction (3 credits)

    Offered by: Educational&Counselling Psych (Faculty of Education)

    Administered by: Graduate Studies

    Overview

    Ed Psych & Couns (Psychology) : An analysis of the relationship between theory and research about learning and teaching from a historical perspective.

    Terms: Fall 2011, Winter 2012

    Instructors: Hall, Nathan (Fall) Hall, Nathan (Winter)

  • EDPE 648 Instructional Psychology Seminar (3 credits)

    Offered by: Educational&Counselling Psych (Faculty of Education)

    Administered by: Graduate Studies

    Overview

    Ed Psych & Couns (Psychology) : Theoretical, methodological, and empirical bases of research in instructional processes.

    Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2011-2012 academic year.

    Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2011-2012 academic year.

    • Prerequisite: EDPE 666 and EDPE 635 or permission of the instructor.
    • Prerequisites can be taken at the same time as this course.
  • EDPE 656 Applied Cognitive Theory/Methods (3 credits)

    Offered by: Educational&Counselling Psych (Faculty of Education)

    Administered by: Graduate Studies

    Overview

    Ed Psych & Couns (Psychology) : Models of knowledge representation, cognitive architectures, and cognitive processes for complex domains of performance and instruction. Methods of data collection that allow testing of models of performance and learning in such domains.

    Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2011-2012 academic year.

    Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2011-2012 academic year.

    • Prerequisite: EDPE 555 or permission of instructor.
  • EDPE 661 Discourse Processes (3 credits)

    Offered by: Educational&Counselling Psych (Faculty of Education)

    Administered by: Graduate Studies

    Overview

    Ed Psych & Couns (Psychology) : Structure and function of discourse processes. Topics include language acquisition, syntactic and semantic processes, text comprehension, spoken versus written discourse, classroom discourse, narrative discourse, literary discourse, computational discourse, and an overview of methods for discourse analysis.

    Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2011-2012 academic year.

    Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2011-2012 academic year.

    • Prerequisites: EDPE 666 or permission of the instructor
    • Corequisites: EDPE 655 and EDPE 666 or permission of instructor
  • EDPE 663 Learning Environments and Processes (3 credits)

    Offered by: Educational&Counselling Psych (Faculty of Education)

    Administered by: Graduate Studies

    Overview

    Ed Psych & Couns (Psychology) : Research on natural and designed contexts to support learning and development of expertise: social and cognitive processes underlying effective participation and learning in collaborative learning environments including those mediated by technology.

    Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2011-2012 academic year.

    Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2011-2012 academic year.

    • Prerequisites: EDPE 666 or equivalent of permission of instructor
    • Corequisites: EDPE 655 or permission of instructor
  • EDPE 664 Expertise, Reasoning and Problem Solving (3 credits)

    Offered by: Educational&Counselling Psych (Faculty of Education)

    Administered by: Graduate Studies

    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: Winter 2012

    Instructors: Azevedo, Roger (Winter)

    • Prerequisites: EDPE 666 or permission of the instructor

    • Corequisites: EDPE 655

  • EDPE 666 Foundations of Learning Science (3 credits)

    Offered by: Educational&Counselling Psych (Faculty of Education)

    Administered by: Graduate Studies

    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 2011

    Instructors: Lajoie, Susanne P (Fall)

    • Prerequisites: A 500- or 600-level graduate course in cognitive or instructional psychology or permission of instructor

  • EDPE 668 Advanced Seminar in Learning Sciences (3 credits)

    Offered by: Educational&Counselling Psych (Faculty of Education)

    Administered by: Graduate Studies

    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 2011-2012 academic year.

    Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2011-2012 academic year.

    • Prerequisites: EDPE 666 - Foundation of Learning Science or EDPE 605 Research Methods or permission of the instructor
    • Corequisites: EDPE 655 Learning Sciences Research Seminar or permission of the instructor
  • EDPE 687 Qualitative Methods in Educational Psychology (3 credits)

    Offered by: Educational&Counselling Psych (Faculty of Education)

    Administered by: Graduate Studies

    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 2012

    Instructors: Ruglis, Jessica (Winter)

    • Prerequisites: EDPE 605 or equivalent or permission of the instructor

or other 500-, 600- or 700-level courses offered by the Department and with the approval of the supervisor and the Program Director.

Human Development Stream (15 credits)

9 credits from the following:

  • EDPE 502 Theories of Development and Disabilities (3 credits)

    Offered by: Educational&Counselling Psych (Faculty of Education)

    Overview

    Ed Psych & Couns (Psychology) : Developmental theory to form a foundation for scholarly, empirical, and applied work with both typical and atypical populations.

    Terms: Fall 2011

    Instructors: Bloom, Elana (Fall)

  • EDPE 672 Human Development Seminar 1 (3 credits)

    Offered by: Educational&Counselling Psych (Faculty of Education)

    Administered by: Graduate Studies

    Overview

    Ed Psych & Couns (Psychology) : Theories and developments in the science of human development within the context of research and practice and the evolution of the field at large.

    Terms: Fall 2011

    Instructors: Heath, Nancy Lee; Burack, Jacob A (Fall)

    • Prerequisite: EDPE 502 or permission of the instructor (Minimum Grade/Test score(s) needed is B-).

  • EDPE 673 Human Development Seminar 2 (3 credits)

    Offered by: Educational&Counselling Psych (Faculty of Education)

    Administered by: Graduate Studies

    Overview

    Ed Psych & Couns (Psychology) : Continuation of theories and developments in the science of human development within the context of research and practice and evolution of the field at large.

    Terms: Winter 2012

    Instructors: Heath, Nancy Lee; Burack, Jacob A (Winter)

    • Prerequisite: EDPE 672 (Minimum Grade/Test score(s) needed is B-).

and 6 credits selected from the following:

  • EDPE 515 Gender Identity Development (3 credits)

    Offered by: Educational&Counselling Psych (Faculty of Education)

    Overview

    Ed Psych & Couns (Psychology) : Theoretical models and empirical findings relevant to the development of gender identity. Special attention is given to the influence of peers in school settings. Psychological, physiological, parental, peer and cultural influences on gender identity.

    Terms: Fall 2011

    Instructors: Pasto, Luigi (Fall)

    • Prerequisites: EDPE 208, EDPE 300 or a course in developmental psychology

    • Offered through Continuing Education.

  • EDPE 616 Cognitive Development (3 credits)

    Offered by: Educational&Counselling Psych (Faculty of Education)

    Administered by: Graduate Studies

    Overview

    Ed Psych & Couns (Psychology) : Assessment of theories of cognitive development including Piagetian, neo-Piagetian, and information-processing approaches. Theoretical models and empirical findings, and their application to educational and other settings.

    Terms: Fall 2011

    Instructors: Cassidy, Robert (Fall)

  • EDPE 620 Developmental Psychopathology (3 credits)

    Offered by: Educational&Counselling Psych (Faculty of Education)

    Administered by: Graduate Studies

    Overview

    Ed Psych & Couns (Psychology) : Theory, research, and practice in developmental processes in the study of psychopathology, including aberrant behaviour in childhood, at-risk and resilient children, and mental illness.

    Terms: Fall 2011, Winter 2012

    Instructors: Burack, Jacob A (Fall) Burack, Jacob A (Winter)

  • EDPE 623 Social-Emotional Development (3 credits)

    Offered by: Educational&Counselling Psych (Faculty of Education)

    Administered by: Graduate Studies

    Overview

    Ed Psych & Couns (Psychology) : Social-emotional development including temperament, attachment, gender identity, and peer relations. Biological and environmental influences, continuity and change, and qualitative versus quantitative variables.

    Terms: Winter 2012

    Instructors: Cassidy, Robert (Winter)

  • EDPI 642 Education of Learners/Special Needs 1 (3 credits)

    Offered by: Educational&Counselling Psych (Faculty of Education)

    Administered by: Graduate Studies

    Overview

    Ed Psych & Couns (Inclusive) : Introduction to learners with different types of special needs. Emphasis on current research and practice of educating students with special needs.

    Terms: Fall 2011

    Instructors: Cohen-Gazith, Karen (Fall)

  • EDPI 643 Education of Learners/Special Needs 2 (3 credits)

    Offered by: Educational&Counselling Psych (Faculty of Education)

    Administered by: Graduate Studies

    Overview

    Ed Psych & Couns (Inclusive) : Contemporary issues in the education of students with special needs: assessment and identification; service delivery models; instructional methods; parent/professional relationships; research priorities; legislative policies; adult education; employment training.

    Terms: Winter 2012

    Instructors: Cohen-Gazith, Karen (Winter)

or other 500-, 600- or 700-level courses offered by the Department and with the approval of the supervisor and the Program Director.

School/Applied Child Psychology Stream (45 credits)

Students completing the School/Applied Child Psychology Stream complete 45 credits of specified courses in addition to the 33 credits of core required courses.

Note: There are no complementary courses for this stream

  • EDPC 609 Psychological Testing 1 (3 credits)

    Offered by: Educational&Counselling Psych (Faculty of Education)

    Administered by: Graduate Studies

    Overview

    Ed Psych & Couns (Counselling) : History of psychological testing, theoretical aspects of individual and group testing, validity, reliability, and test construction, basic theories of intelligence, and ethical and legal issues in testing. An introduction to tests of cognitive abilities, aptitude, personality, and interests, including the acquisition of basic skills needed to administer and interpret individual tests of cognitive abilities. Students taking courses which access the ECP Assessment Materials Resource Centre are required to pay an access fee as well as the cost of all consumables required per course. The fee is dependent on the number of consumables/protocols used in each class and is refundable during the withdrawal with full refund period.

    Terms: Fall 2011, Winter 2012

    Instructors: Stringer, Ronald William (Fall) Korner, Annett (Winter)

    • Prerequisite: Undergraduate-level course in psychological measurement and assessment

  • EDPC 610 Psychological Testing 2 (3 credits)

    Offered by: Educational&Counselling Psych (Faculty of Education)

    Administered by: Graduate Studies

    Overview

    Ed Psych & Couns (Counselling) : Theory and interpretation of intelligence tests, particularly the Wechsler and Binet scales. Practice in writing test reports, particularly as a part of a case study. The use of intelligence test results in conjunction with other types of tests. Students taking courses which access the ECP Assessment Materials Resource Centre are required to pay an access fee as well as the cost of all consumables required per course. The fee is dependent on the number of consumables/protocols used in each class and is refundable during the withdrawal with full refund period.

    Terms: Winter 2012

    Instructors: Stringer, Ronald William (Winter)

    • Prerequisite: EDPC 609

    • Required in School/Applied Psychology. Optional in Counselling Psychology, but recommended for students specializing in school or child counselling.

  • EDPC 682D1 Practicum: Psychological Testing (3 credits)

    Offered by: Educational&Counselling Psych (Faculty of Education)

    Administered by: Graduate Studies

    Overview

    Ed Psych & Couns (Counselling) : Seminar and field practice in the administration and interpretation of educational and psychological tests including personality, within clinical and educational settings. Selection and evaluation of test instruments will be covered. Supervision of report writing and the ethical use of test information. Students taking courses which access the ECP Assessment Materials Resource Centre are required to pay an access fee as well as the cost of all consumables required per course. The fee is dependent on the number of consumables/protocols used in each class and is refundable during the withdrawal with full refund period. Students taking courses which access the ECP Assessment Materials Resource Centre are required to pay an access fee as well as the cost of all consumables required per course. The fee is dependent on the number of consumables/protocols used in each class and is refundable during the withdrawal with full refund period.

    Terms: Fall 2011

    Instructors: Kachanoff, Ralph; Roberts, France Elizabeth; Shaw, Steven (Fall)

  • EDPC 682D2 Practicum: Psychological Testing (3 credits)

    Offered by: Educational&Counselling Psych (Faculty of Education)

    Administered by: Graduate Studies

    Overview

    Ed Psych & Couns (Counselling) : See EDPC 682D1 for course description.

    Terms: Winter 2012

    Instructors: Kachanoff, Ralph; Roberts, France Elizabeth; Shaw, Steven (Winter)

  • EDPE 600 Current Topics: Educational Psychology (3 credits)

    Offered by: Educational&Counselling Psych (Faculty of Education)

    Administered by: Graduate Studies

    Overview

    Ed Psych & Couns (Psychology) : Current issues and developments and reviews of major areas in educational psychology in the context of research in the Department and the evolution of the discipline at large.

    Terms: Fall 2011, Winter 2012

    Instructors: Sladeczek, Ingrid (Fall) Sladeczek, Ingrid (Winter)

  • EDPE 609 Selected Topics in Educational Psychology (3 credits)

    Offered by: Educational&Counselling Psych (Faculty of Education)

    Administered by: Graduate Studies

    Overview

    Ed Psych & Couns (Psychology) : A detailed examination of recent developments in specific topics of educational psychology. The content of the seminar will vary from year to year and will be announced prior to registration.

    Terms: Summer 2012

    Instructors: Shaw, Steven; Kachanoff, Ralph; Peternelli, Loris (Summer)

  • EDPE 611 School Psychology Seminar (3 credits)

    Offered by: Educational&Counselling Psych (Faculty of Education)

    Administered by: Graduate Studies

    Overview

    Ed Psych & Couns (Psychology) : Focus on the profession and practice of school psychology. Four major areas of information within the discipline of school psychology will be addressed: history and organizational systems, psychological service delivery in educational settings, ethical and legal issues, and new trends and future developments in school psychology and training.

    Terms: Fall 2011

    Instructors: Sladeczek, Ingrid (Fall)

    • Restriction: Open to School/Applied Psychology students only.

  • EDPE 616 Cognitive Development (3 credits)

    Offered by: Educational&Counselling Psych (Faculty of Education)

    Administered by: Graduate Studies

    Overview

    Ed Psych & Couns (Psychology) : Assessment of theories of cognitive development including Piagetian, neo-Piagetian, and information-processing approaches. Theoretical models and empirical findings, and their application to educational and other settings.

    Terms: Fall 2011

    Instructors: Cassidy, Robert (Fall)

  • EDPE 619 Child and Adolescent Therapy (3 credits)

    Offered by: Educational&Counselling Psych (Faculty of Education)

    Administered by: Graduate Studies

    Overview

    Ed Psych & Couns (Psychology) : Therapeutic models for individual and group interventions for children and adolescents; case histories; gender and cultural minority issues; emphasis on classical and innovative strategies and methods for school and counselling psychologists.

    Terms: Fall 2011

    Instructors: Glen Soles, Tamara Lisa (Fall)

    • Restriction: For School/Applied Child Psychology students only.

  • EDPE 620 Developmental Psychopathology (3 credits)

    Offered by: Educational&Counselling Psych (Faculty of Education)

    Administered by: Graduate Studies

    Overview

    Ed Psych & Couns (Psychology) : Theory, research, and practice in developmental processes in the study of psychopathology, including aberrant behaviour in childhood, at-risk and resilient children, and mental illness.

    Terms: Fall 2011, Winter 2012

    Instructors: Burack, Jacob A (Fall) Burack, Jacob A (Winter)

  • EDPE 622 Multiculturalism and Gender (3 credits)

    Offered by: Educational&Counselling Psych (Faculty of Education)

    Administered by: Graduate Studies

    Overview

    Ed Psych & Couns (Psychology) : Multicultural, multilingual and gender issues as they relate to the practising school and counselling psychologist. Implications and their impact in assessment, research, training, and intervention.

    Terms: Winter 2012

    Instructors: Kerner, Emily; Spanierman, Lisa (Winter)

    • Restriction: Open to School/ Applied Child and Counselling Psychology students only

  • EDPE 623 Social-Emotional Development (3 credits)

    Offered by: Educational&Counselling Psych (Faculty of Education)

    Administered by: Graduate Studies

    Overview

    Ed Psych & Couns (Psychology) : Social-emotional development including temperament, attachment, gender identity, and peer relations. Biological and environmental influences, continuity and change, and qualitative versus quantitative variables.

    Terms: Winter 2012

    Instructors: Cassidy, Robert (Winter)

  • EDPE 627 Professional Practice of Psychology (3 credits)

    Offered by: Educational&Counselling Psych (Faculty of Education)

    Administered by: Graduate Studies

    Overview

    Ed Psych & Couns (Psychology) : Ethics and the professional and governmental structures regulating the practice of psychology in Quebec, Canada, and North America and their relation to the work of psychologists. Required for licensing as a psychologist.

    Terms: Fall 2011

    Instructors: Romano, Vera (Fall)

    • Prerequisite: EDPE 575 or equivalent

    • Restriction: Open only to students in M.A. (Thesis) Educational Psychology - School/Applied Child Psychology Stream Program, M.A. (Non-Thesis) Counselling Psychology - Project Program, and M.A. (Thesis) Counselling Psychology Program.

  • EDPE 684 Applied Multivariate Statistics (3 credits) *

    Offered by: Educational&Counselling Psych (Faculty of Education)

    Administered by: Graduate Studies

    Overview

    Ed Psych & Couns (Psychology) : Principal methods, models, and hypothesis-testing procedures for the prediction and analysis of patterns, structure, and relationships in multivariate date, e.g., discriminant, principal components, canonical correlation, profile analyses, measurement models, factor and path analysis, repeated measures. Applications oriented toward education and educational and counselling psychology. Experience with data-analysis tools.

    Terms: Fall 2011

    Instructors: Bracewell, Robert J (Fall)

  • EDPE 687 Qualitative Methods in Educational Psychology (3 credits) *

    Offered by: Educational&Counselling Psych (Faculty of Education)

    Administered by: Graduate Studies

    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 2012

    Instructors: Ruglis, Jessica (Winter)

    • Prerequisites: EDPE 605 or equivalent or permission of the instructor

  • EDPI 654 Instruction/Curriculum Adaptation (3 credits)

    Offered by: Educational&Counselling Psych (Faculty of Education)

    Administered by: Graduate Studies

    Overview

    Ed Psych & Couns (Inclusive) : Adapting instruction and curriculum for students with special needs; developing individualized programs and methods; building curriculum that addresses both academic and social needs of students.

    Terms: Winter 2012

    Instructors: Ruglis, Jessica (Winter)

* Students have the choice to complete one of either EDPE 684 or EDPE 687.

Faculty of Education—2011-2012 (last updated Aug. 17, 2011) (disclaimer)
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