EDUC 150Quantitative Methods in Education: Claims and Evidence
Education · 5 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)
Limited to Education and Social Transformation majors. Offers introductory training in conducting and making sense of quantitative analysis of educational data. Introduction of the concept of validity (statistical validity, internal validity, construct validity, external validity) as a framework to evaluate the soundness of conclusions and decisions drawn from quantitative research evidence in education. Critical examination of how values, beliefs, and bias can shape quantitative education research. Quantitative background is not required.
Students learn to apply basic statistical analysis techniques in the widely used software package R. Letter grading.
When it runs
- Fall 2025
- Winter 2026
- Spring 2026
- Fall 2026
- Winter 2027
- Spring 2027
Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.
Requisites
Official UCLA wording
Requisite: course 35.
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EDUC 150
- EDUC 35Introduction to Inquiry and Research in Education
1 direct requisite. The whole upstream is here — 1 course over 1 level. Every course here opens its own tree.
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What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
EDUC 150
- EDUC 152Quantitative Methods in Education: Applied Data Analysis for Policy and Practice
1 course lists this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 1 course over 1 level. Every course here opens its own tree.