Designed to help students develop skills in a variety of approaches and methodologies used in research design that requires quantitative methods. Focuses on multivariate methods; and includes research questions, purposes, methodologies, instruments, measures, participant selection, data collection and data analysis methods, results, and conclusions. Three lecture hours a week for one semester. Prerequisite: Graduate standing; admission to a Doctor of Education or a Doctor of Philosophy degree program; and Curriculum and Instruction 382R, Educational Psychology 371, or an equivalent introductory statistics course and consent of the graduate adviser.