Ph.D. in Education Specialization Overview
2006-2017
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Educational Policy and Social Context (EPSC)
Educational Policy and Social Context considers issues of the changing social, cultural, and organizational context of learning to connect policy development and implementation.
ESPC faculty are conducting research in areas such as:
ESPC faculty are conducting research in areas such as:
- Educational Inequality
- Educational Interventions
- Education Policy
- Evaluation of Education Programs and Policies
- School and Family Influences in Education
- Sociology and Economics of Education
Language, Literacy, and Technology (LLT)
Language, Literacy, and Technology bridges two fields, (1) Digital Learning and Media, and (2) Language and Literacy Development, as well as the intersection between them.
LLT faculty are conducting research in areas such as:
Faculty research involves experimentation, design-based implementation research, case studies, educational data mining and text mining, social network analysis, and learning analytics.
LLT faculty are conducting research in areas such as:
- Automated Writing Evaluation
- Child Language and Literacy Development
- Cloud-Based Collaborative Writing
- Computer-Assisted Language Learning
- Coding and Computational Thinking
- Cognitive Strategies for Secondary Reading and Writing
- Digital Storytelling
- eBooks and Literacy Development
- Online, Hybrid, and Virtual Learning
- Personalized Instruction and Assessment
- Social Media Use and Development
- Telepresence Robots in Education
- Video and Videogames in Learning and Teaching
Faculty research involves experimentation, design-based implementation research, case studies, educational data mining and text mining, social network analysis, and learning analytics.
Learning, Teaching, Cognition, and Development (LTCD)
Learning, Teaching, Cognition, and Development draws upon a range of disciplinary perspectives, including, but not limited to, developmental and cognitive psychology, learning sciences, and neuroscience to analyze the processes shaping teaching and learning.
LTCD faculty are conducting research in areas such as:
LTCD faculty are conducting research in areas such as:
- Learner Motivation and Achievement
- Out-of-School Activities and Youth Development
- Gender and Ethnicity in STEM Fields
- Working Memory and Executive Control Across the Lifetime
- Early Childhood Education and Learning
- Learning in Higher Education
- Teacher Competence and Learning
- Teaching in K-12 Schools
- Teacher Preparation and Teacher Professional Development
- Faculty use large scale data sets, randomized experiments, program evaluation, design research, discourse analysis, case studies, video and classroom-based research, and longitudinal studies.
