Quantitative Research Methods
Not surprisingly, educational researchers with strong backgrounds in statistics are in enormous demand, particularly in schools and colleges of education, but also in high-level research organizations such as the Educational Testing Service, the Rand Corporation, the National Opinion Research Center, as well as government agencies including, for example, State Departments of Education. Currently, US universities are not keeping pace with this demand. Moreover, rapid advances in statistical methodology across many disciplines render ineffective the standard programs that universities have used to train educational statisticians. The University of Michigan creates an ideal environment in which to respond to this challenge.
