The program in Quantitative Research Methods (QRM) is a graduate certificate program administered by faculty in the Departments of Psychological Sciences, Sociology, and Educational Psychology, but drawing students from many other departments and schools. The general structure and policies of this program follow the guidelines for graduate certificate programs specified in the UConn Graduate Catalog. The program’s mission is to provide students with a thorough background in quantitative research methods in the psychological sciences that extends the basic research methods training required by their respective graduate programs. Students interested in the program design an individualized plan of study, in consultation with their major advisor, which serves their research needs, interests, and career goals.
Requirements
Prerequisite Course Requirements
PSYC 5104 Foundations of Research in the Psychological Sciences I and PSYC 5105 Foundations of Research in the Psychological Sciences II or equivalent courses. Students who wish to substitute equivalent coursework for these two courses with other graduate level introductory statistics courses need to submit a petition to the Director of the QRM program.
Credit Requirement
Participants in the program complete 12 credits of graduate coursework in quantitative methods. The 12 credits are selected from:
Course List
| Course |
Title |
Credits |
| 12 |
| Multilevel Mediation-Moderation Modeling for Health Sciences | |
| Hierarchical Linear Modeling | |
| Structural Equation Modeling | |
| Item Response Theory | |
| Introduction to Methods for Causal Inference Using Educational Data | |
| Special Topics in Human Development and Family Sciences (when taught as Longitudinal Methods, Meta Analysis, or other topic approved by the Program Director) | |
| Applied Research in Management | |
| Meta Analysis: Theory and Practice | |
| Research Design and Test Construction | |
| Current Topics in Developmental Psychology | |
| Advanced Nonlinear Dynamics for the Behavioral Sciences | |
| Current Topics in Industrial/Organizational Psychology (when taught as Multivariate Approaches to Survey Data) | |
| Experimental Social Psychology | |
PSYC 5702 | | |
| Topics in Intermediate Biostatistics | |
| Quantitative Research I | |
| Introduction to Mathematical Statistics I | |
| Applied Time Series |
| Total Credits | 12 |
Additional courses are acceptable with prior approval. Students who wish to petition for a course that is not listed may do so by submitting a petition with sufficient documentation of the content of the course to the QRM Director (syllabus, exam examples). Such courses cannot be from other institutions.
