Master of Science in Research and Evaluation

See the bigger picture. Use data and analytics to maximize student outcomes. The Educational Psychology Master of Science with a concentration in Research and Evaluation prepares graduates to work with public or private organizations. This program will help you understand how to design evaluations, collect data to determine the efficacy of programs or initiatives, and properly measure outcomes to assess important features. Position yourself to be the go-to person in your educational organization in understanding why and how your educational programs are working, for whom they work, and if changes within the program are required.For those employed by educational institutions (such as school districts, higher educational institutions, or non-profit organizations) as administrators, or desiring to become administrators either in K-12 as evaluators or in higher education as institutional researchers, the R&E master’s degree will help you understand how to design evaluations, collect data to determine the efficacy of programs or initiatives, properly measure outcomes to assess important features.For those working in the development of research programs and implementing grant proposals, the master’s degree in R&E will position you to evaluate and provide information to policymakers and other stakeholders so that they can make important decisions about funding, the continuation of programs, changes that need to be made to improve educational efforts based on empirical data analysis and interpretation.