EDUC 230AIntroduction to Research Design and Statistics

Education · 4 units · Graduate courses (200-299)

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Designed for graduate students. Key concepts and issues in design and conduct of social sciences research. Introduction to descriptive statistics and fundamentals of statistical inference.

Letter grading.

When it runs

Winter 2026
Winter 2027

Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.

Requisites

UCLA lists no requisites for this course.

Requires

Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.

Nothing — this is an entry point.

Unlocks

What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.

EDUC 230A

EDUC 200BSurvey Research Methods in Education
EDUC 211AEducational and Psychological Measurement: Underlying Theory and Practice
EDUC 211BEducational and Psychological Measurement: Generalizability Theory
- EDUC M231BFactor Analysis
  - EDUC 231BLFactor Analysis: Computer Laboratory
  - EDUC 231CAdvanced Item Response Theoryanother path to it
- PSYCH M253Factor Analysis
EDUC 221Computer Analyses of Empirical Data in Education
EDUC 230ALIntroduction to Research Design and Statistics: Computer Laboratory
EDUC 230BLinear Statistical Models in Social Science Research: Multiple Regression Analysis
- EDUC 211BEducational and Psychological Measurement: Generalizability Theoryanother path to it
- EDUC 211CIntroduction to Factor Analysis and Item Response Theory
- EDUC 230BLLinear Statistical Models: Computer Laboratory
- EDUC 230CLinear Statistical Models in Social Science Research: Analysis of Designed Experimentsanother path to it
- EDUC 231AToolkit for Quantitative Methods Researchanother path to it
EDUC 230CLinear Statistical Models in Social Science Research: Analysis of Designed Experiments
- EDUC 211BEducational and Psychological Measurement: Generalizability Theoryanother path to it
- EDUC 230CLLinear Statistical Models for Experimental Research: Computer Laboratory
- EDUC 231AToolkit for Quantitative Methods Researchanother path to it
- EDUC 231DAdvanced Quantitative Models in Nonexperimental Research: Multilevel Analysis
EDUC 231AToolkit for Quantitative Methods Research
- EDUC 231CAdvanced Item Response Theory
- EDUC M231BFactor Analysisanother path to it
- PSYCH M253Factor Analysisanother path to it

8 courses list this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 24 courses over 3 levels. Every course here opens its own tree.

Unlocks

What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.

EDUC 230A

EDUC 200BSurvey Research Methods in Education
EDUC 211AEducational and Psychological Measurement: Underlying Theory and Practice
EDUC 211BEducational and Psychological Measurement: Generalizability Theory
- EDUC M231BFactor Analysis
  - EDUC 231BLFactor Analysis: Computer Laboratory
  - EDUC 231CAdvanced Item Response Theoryanother path to it
- PSYCH M253Factor Analysis
EDUC 221Computer Analyses of Empirical Data in Education
EDUC 230ALIntroduction to Research Design and Statistics: Computer Laboratory
EDUC 230BLinear Statistical Models in Social Science Research: Multiple Regression Analysis
- EDUC 211BEducational and Psychological Measurement: Generalizability Theoryanother path to it
- EDUC 211CIntroduction to Factor Analysis and Item Response Theory
- EDUC 230BLLinear Statistical Models: Computer Laboratory
- EDUC 230CLinear Statistical Models in Social Science Research: Analysis of Designed Experimentsanother path to it
- EDUC 231AToolkit for Quantitative Methods Researchanother path to it
EDUC 230CLinear Statistical Models in Social Science Research: Analysis of Designed Experiments
- EDUC 211BEducational and Psychological Measurement: Generalizability Theoryanother path to it
- EDUC 230CLLinear Statistical Models for Experimental Research: Computer Laboratory
- EDUC 231AToolkit for Quantitative Methods Researchanother path to it
- EDUC 231DAdvanced Quantitative Models in Nonexperimental Research: Multilevel Analysis
EDUC 231AToolkit for Quantitative Methods Research
- EDUC 231CAdvanced Item Response Theory
- EDUC M231BFactor Analysisanother path to it
- PSYCH M253Factor Analysisanother path to it

8 courses list this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 24 courses over 3 levels. Every course here opens its own tree.