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EDUC 510 EDUCATION ASSESSMENT AND EVALUATIONS
Prerequisites: None
Credits: 3
Distinguishing performance and achievement behaviors of students is the focus
of this course. The basic concepts of quantifying behavior; validity, reliability,
norms, and methods of expressing performance and achievement scores
statistically are reviewed. The course emphasizes standardized and non-
standardized instruments, methods of communicating test results, and
instructional planning. In addition, candidates learn to disaggregate
standardized test data to align classroom instruction, curriculum, assessment,
and learning activities. Students explore statistical packages to test the
significance of data.

EDUC 511 CULTURAL DEPRIVATION AND EDUCATION
Prerequisites: None
Credits: 3
The course consists of current studies relating to the effects of cultural
deficiencies on learning and alleviation techniques as they relate to school and
community resources, social agencies, and institutions. Effort is made to
propose action programs of a developmental nature.

EDUC 513 PRE-SCHOOL EDUCATION AND THE DISADVANTAGED
Former course number 512
Prerequisites: None
Credits: 3
This course explores various intervention approaches involving school, home,
and community designed to help disadvantaged children overcome educational
deficiencies. Curriculum reform, institutional innovation, materials, and
parental involvement are also stressed.
EDUC 514 LEARNING PROBLEMS OF THE ACADEMICALLY
DISADVANTAGED
Prerequisites: None
Credits: 3
Environmental influences, which have negative effects on educational
performance and on such other factors as perception and intelligence, are
considered. School intervention strategies appropriate to the task of
overcoming the academic deficiencies in such learners are explored.

EDUC 515 SEX EDUCATION AND HUMAN RELATIONS
Prerequisites: None
Credits: 3

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