This page has the complete PowerPoint slide presentations I use in class, or will have when I get done sending them up.  You can download these presentations to your own computer to play them for review if you wish.  Simply click once on the button or the title of the PowerPoint file next to the button.  This should open a dialog box giving you the option of either opening (viewing) the slideshow or saving it to disk.  If you save to disk, you will need to have a folder  ready to receive it, such as c:\downloads or c:\slideshows.

    You should be aware that I sometimes use links and cross links back and forth between presentations, usually controlled from a master slide linking as many as 30 or so presentations.  Unless you are adept at reconstructing a set, you will need to play them one at a time.

The archive for Special Education Law is here.

Several student seminar presentations are here.

EDAD 8043	Advanced Organization Theory
Group process.ppt	Activity-process Orientation Paradigm Group process concepts & skills
Intro_overview.ppt	Historical milestones in the evolution of administrative theory
Bureaucracy.ppt	Analysis of classical bureaucracy as root metaphor for structure, process & outcomes
Bureaucracy & Change	Why is it that, the more things change, the more they remain the same?

EDFN 8773	Doc Seminar in Research & Evaluation
Theoretical Framewrk	Example Structures: Effects of inservice training & a model for juvenile delinquency
Stats4designs	How to apply statistics to descriptive, bivariate, univariate and multivariate research questions

6773 Focus	Overview of the course and what it will cover
Logical Positvsm	The nature of knowledge & vantage points from which to discover it
Deductive or inductive?	Systems of logic
Evaluation Cycle	Introduces the idea of program evaluation as a type of action research
Intro to evaluation	Key concepts in evaluation research
Evalaluation model	The basic program evaluation model
General linear model	The general linear model of statistics in research
Theoretical Framework	Examples of how theory & logic frame the thinking behind research design
Introduction	Basic overview of validity in research
Reliability	It may be valid, but is it dependable?
CV Threats	How many other explanations are there for the findings from research? Threat to conclusion validity
Internal Val	Internal validity. Establishing cause and effect
Single group	Single group threats to internal validity
Multiple group	Multiple group threats to internal validity
Social	Social interaction threat to internal validity
Construct validity	The concept of construct validity
Convergent/Divergent	Convergent & divergent validity are indicators that a construct is made up of what it's supposed to be; e.g., motivation & self esteem are constructs, but are they independent constructs?
Construct Threats	As with other types of validity, there are design and procedural elements that may weaken validity
External validity	The acid test for whether or not new knowledge from research has relevance to the world beyond the study itself
Research Design	The concept & system of notation for research design
Types of designs	A decision tree with basic properties of the 3 basic design types
Designing designs	General considerations researchers use to build focus and control into their studies
Simple experiment	One widely used variation on the experimental design & the idea of signal to noise ratio
reserved for other experimental designs
The quasiexperiment	Non-equivalent groups design
Design relationshps	How pretest, post-test deigns are related
	Experimental and nonexperimental combined
Elementary Statistics
Basics	General principles of elementry statistics
measurement	Levels of measurement
Design and anlysis	Statistical models and research design
independent sample t-test	The test for differences between mean scores for two groups
central tendency	Means, medians, modes, etc. What is typical?
relative position	Indicators of relative position. Where do scores stand in relatin to one another?
dispersion	The idea of variability is introduced along with characteristics of the normal distribution

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