Educational Psychology

Twelve-Hour Graduate Certificate in Data-Driven Decision-Making (DDDM) for Continuous Improvement

The Mason, College of Education and Human Development, Educational Psychology Program is committed to the core values of collaboration, innovation, research-based practice, ethical leadership, and social justice. This certificate program actualizes these values in partnership with local school districts to identify school leaders who are interested in acquiring the requisite skills to manage and participate in administrative or classroom-level data teams for employing DDDM.

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Why earn a Graduate Certificate in Data-Driven Decision-Making?

Benefits:

  • Understand how to use data to answer questions about student academic achievement and/or behavior
  • Understand when and how to use different measurement strategies
  • Become a better consumer of data:
    • as a classroom teacher
    • as a school administrator
    • as an instructional coach
    • as a test coordinator
  • Apply courses toward recertification for teacher licensure
  • Transfer up to 12 credit hours into the Master's degree in Educational Psychology (with permission from academic coordinator)

Skill Development in:

  • Data collection, analysis, interpretation, and use of results for decision making
  • Development and application of formative assessments for self-selected areas of instruction
  • Reporting of assessment results to pertinent stakeholders
  • Use of appropriate evaluation methods for DDDM

School-based Cohort:

  • Cohorts geared toward the classroom or district level (e.g., teacher, school administrator)
  • Flexible instructional delivery
  • Content specific cohorts ( e.g., special education, science, math, other)
  • Problem-based learning experiences
  • Application of skills to real-world problems
  • Courses taught by the full-time faculty in the Educational Psychology Program
  • Qualified public school personnel may co-teach courses when applicable
  • Learn to provide data-driven instruction to improve student success

Admission to the Certificate Program:

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