College of Education Health and Human ServicesSchool of Foundations, Leadership and Administration
www.kent.edu/ehhs/fla
Examples of Possible Careers*
Education teachers, postsecondary
- 4.8% about as fast as the average
- 77,300 number of jobs
- $65,440 potential earnings
Management analysts
- 10.7% much faster than the average
- 876,300 number of jobs
- $87,660 potential earnings
Social scientists and related workers, all other
- 0.8% little or no change
- 38,800 number of jobs
- $87,260 potential earnings
Statisticians
- 34.6% much faster than the average
- 42,700 number of jobs
- $92,270 potential earnings
Contact Information
Fully Offered
Admission Terms
*Note
Source of occupation titles and labor data is from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics' Occupational Outlook Handbook. Data comprises projected percent change in employment over the next 10 years; nation-wide employment numbers; and the yearly median wage at which half of the workers in the occupation earned more than that amount and half earned less.
Description
The Ph.D. degree in Research, Measurement and Statistics develops professionals who have the theoretical knowledge base and application skills to teach courses at the college level in research design, statistics, measurement and evaluation; conceptualize, design and evaluate a wide variety of research methodologies; choose appropriate analyses for questions and designs that have been proposed; communicate effectively with educators and other professionals in the development and application of research and psychometric materials; and evaluate programs culminating in written reports.
Course offerings encompass the broad range of expertise required of those who will assume leadership roles in the conduct and teaching of research, measurement, statistics and evaluation.
Admission Requirements
For more information about graduate admissions, please visit the Graduate Studies admission website. For more information on international admission, visit the Office of Global Education’s admission website.
Program Learning Outcomes
Graduates of this program will be able to:
- Demonstrate knowledge of descriptive and inferential statistics at a conceptual and application level.
- Demonstrate knowledge of research design and methods by selecting and executing the appropriate research design and methods for a variety of applications.
- Demonstrate knowledge of measurement, including the methods to develop valid and reliable measures of constructs.
- Demonstrate knowledge of contemporary and classic theories in program evaluation, the purposes and logic of program evaluation and the processes of different types of program evaluation.
Program Requirements
Major Requirements
Course List
Code |
Title |
Credit Hours |
RMS 75510 | STATISTICS I FOR EDUCATIONAL SERVICES | 3 |
RMS 78710 | INTRODUCTION TO MEASUREMENT | 3 |
or RMS 78715 | SURVEY DESIGN AND APPLIED RESEARCH IN EDUCATION |
RMS 78711 | MODERN TEST THEORY: ITEM RESPONSE THEORY | 3 |
RMS 78713 | MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS IN EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH | 3 |
RMS 78714 | FACTOR ANALYSIS IN EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH | 3 |
RMS 78716 | STATISTICS II: ANOVA AND NONPARAMETRIC TESTS | 3 |
RMS 78728 | MULTIPLE REGRESSION | 3 |
RMS 78735 | STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING | 3 |
RMS 78745 | HIERARCHICAL LINEAR MODELING | 3 |
RMS 78807 | PROGRAM EVALUATION | 3 |
RMS 85515 | QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH DESIGN AND ANALYSIS | 3 |
RMS 85516 | QUALITATIVE RESEARCH DESIGN | 3 |
RMS 85518 | ADVANCED QUALITATIVE RESEARCH IN EDUCATIONAL SERVICES | 3 |
or RMS 85520 | MIXED METHODS RESEARCH |
RMS 88791 | SEMINAR: EVALUATION AND MEASUREMENT | 3 |
| 9 |
RMS 80199 | DISSERTATION I 1 | 30 |
Minimum Total Credit Hours: | 81 |
Graduation Requirements
After admission to the Ph.D. degree program, students plan a program of study with their respective faculty advisory committee headed by their advisor.