Educational Psychology (Thesis) (M.A.): Health Professions Education (45 credits)
Offered by: Educational & Counselling Psych (Faculty of Education)
Degree: Master of Arts
Program credit weight: 45
Program Description
The Master of Arts (M.A.) Educational Psychology (Thesis); Health Professions Education focuses on the practice of teaching and learning as they happen in the health professions and throughout the lifespan. Student admission and supervision is done jointly with the Institute of Health Sciences Education (IHSE).
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Thesis Courses (18 credits)
| Course | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| EDPE 604 | Thesis 1. | 3 |
Thesis 1. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Literature survey and thesis planning. | ||
| EDPE 607 | Thesis 2. | 3 |
Thesis 2. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Preparation of a thesis proposal. | ||
| EDPE 693 | Thesis 3. | 3 |
Thesis 3. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Thesis research under supervision of a research director. | ||
| EDPE 694 | Thesis 4. | 3 |
Thesis 4. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Thesis research under supervision of a research director. | ||
| EDPE 695 | Thesis 5. | 6 |
Thesis 5. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Thesis research under supervision of a research director. | ||
Prerequisite Course (or equivalent) (3 credits)
| Course | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| EDPE 575 | Statistics for Practitioners. | 3 |
Statistics for Practitioners. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Understanding and interpreting basic statistical procedures used in basic and applied research, including graphs, measures of central tendency and variability, hypothesis testing, and correlations, t-tests, and basic ANOVA designs. | ||
Required Courses (15 credits)
| Course | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| EDPE 605 | Research Methods. | 3 |
Research Methods. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. 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. | ||
| EDPE 637 | Issues in Health Professions Education. | 3 |
Issues in Health Professions Education. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. 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. | ||
| EDPE 676 | Intermediate Statistics. | 3 |
Intermediate Statistics. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Concepts and procedures of conducting basic descriptive and inferential statistics, including analysis of variance, correlation, and regression models. Provides experience with data-analysis tools. | ||
| EDPE 682 | Univariate/Multivariate Analysis. | 3 |
Univariate/Multivariate Analysis. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. 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. | ||
| EDPH 689 | Teaching and Learning in Higher Education. | 3 |
Teaching and Learning in Higher Education. Terms offered: Summer 2025 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. | ||
Complementary Courses (12 credits)
12 credits from the following:
| Course | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| EDPE 535 | Instructional Design. | 3 |
Instructional Design. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. 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. | ||
| EDPE 555 | Introduction to Learning Sciences | 3 |
Introduction to Learning Sciences Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Introduction to foundational theories of the learning sciences. Implications of theory on methodologies for the learning sciences in general, and for educational and instructional contexts in particular. | ||
| EDPE 635 | Theories of Learning and Instruction. | 3 |
Theories of Learning and Instruction. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. An analysis of the relationship between theory and research about learning and teaching from a historical perspective. | ||
| EDPE 656 | Applied Theory/Methods in the Learning Sciences. | 3 |
Applied Theory/Methods in the Learning Sciences. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Foundational and current theories and methodologies applied to understanding human cognition and learning. An overview of experimental, observational, and physiological research designs, methods, and analyses. | ||
| EDPE 663 | Learning Environments. | 3 |
Learning Environments. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Research on digital environments and tools (e.g., online, mobile) that support learning and developing expertise. Evaluation and application of theory and research on technology-rich educational environments focusing on underlying cognitive and social processes. | ||
| EDPE 664 | Critical Thinking | 3 |
Critical Thinking Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Foundational and current research on the development of critical thinking in formal and informal educational settings, exploring cognitive, interpersonal, and socio-cultural dimensions. Introduction to methodologies for analyzing data related to cognitive processes. | ||
| EDPE 666 | Advanced Topics in Learning Sciences | 3 |
Advanced Topics in Learning Sciences Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Advanced topics on theory and research on the interdisciplinary study of the learning sciences. Focuses on cognitive-psychological and social- psychological foundations of human learning, as well as on the design of learning environments. | ||
| EDPE 668 | Advanced Seminar in Learning Sciences. | 3 |
Advanced Seminar in Learning Sciences. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. 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. | ||
| EDPE 687 | Qualitative Methods in Educational Psychology. | 3 |
Qualitative Methods in Educational Psychology. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. 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. | ||
or other 500-,or 600-level courses offered by the Department and with the approval of the supervisor and the Program Director.