The primary mission of the Department of Educational Studies in Psychology, Research Methodology, and Counseling is to offer quality graduate programs to an interdisciplinary grouping of students. The department offers MA, EdS, and PhD degrees in counselor education, a PhD in educational research, a PhD in school psychology, a MA in educational psychology (without a concentration or with concentration options in Learning and Assessment or School Psychometry), an EdS in educational psychology (with an emphasis in school psychology), and a PhD in educational psychology. Beyond these formal degrees, the department offers graduate certificate programs in qualitative research, quantitative research, and measurement/psychometrics.
Programs
- Majors
- Counselor Education: Clinical Mental Health Counseling, MA
- Counselor Education and Supervision, PhD
- Educational Psychology, MA
- Educational Psychology, EdS
- Educational Psychology, PhD
- Educational Research, PhD
- Rehabilitation Counseling, MA
- School Counseling, MA
- School Counseling, EdS
- School Psychology, PhD
- Graduate Certificates
Faculty
Department Head
- Michael Lawson
Program Coordinators
- Joni Lakin, Quantitative Research Certificate
- Junfei Lu, Counselor Education
- Yurou Wang, Educational Psychology
- Stacy Hughey Surman, Educational Research
- June Preast, School Psychology
- Shena Sanchez, Qualitative Research Certificate
- Stefanie Wind, Quantitative Research Certificate and Measurement and Psychometrics Certificate
Professors
- Joyce Alexander
- Joy J. Burnham
- Joni Lakin
- Randall Schumacker
- David Ian Walker
- Stefanie Wind
Associate Professors
- Teresa Granger
- Kelly Guyotte
- Hyemin Han
- Lisa Hsin
- Michael Lawson
- Junfei Lu
- Emily Lund
- Kaiwen Man
- George Mugoya
- Susan Nordstrom
- June Preast
- Meredith Rausch
- Firat Soylu
Assistant Professors
- Chunhua Cao
- Violet Hodge
- JoonHo Lee
- Sarah McKellar
- Macarena Suarez Pellicioni
- Miguel Casar Rodriguez
- Shena Sanchez
- Laurel Snider
Clinical Professor
- Karl Hamner
Clinical Associate Professor
- Stacy Hughey Surman
- Yurou Wang
Clinical Assistant Professors
- Demitrius Barksdale
- Heather Britnell
- Dominic Combs
- Millie Dawson-Hardy
- Anthony Derriso
- Rana M. Eloubeidi
- Eric Hernandez
- Sylvia Hollins
- Morgan Lane
- Matthew McKenzie
- April Upshaw
Courses
Counselor Education
A survey course featuring a comprehensive examination of the history, functions, and related issues for the practice of counseling in school, agency, and rehabilitation settings.
Explores the rationale for guidance by examining human development and sociological, psychological, and philosophical bases for guidance. Provides awareness of services by surveying components of guidance programs. Offered fall semester.
Educational Psychology
Principles of educational psychology for teaching and for educational services in schools and colleges.
This course presents an introduction to doctoral studies in Educational Psychology at The University of Alabama.
Educational Research
An overview of research methodology, primarily for master's students.
This course covers basic descriptive and inferential statistics, including measures of central tendency and dispersion. Hypothesis testing related to one-sample z-and t-tests; independent and dependent sample t-tests; correlations; and chi-square and simple regressions are included.
School Psychology
This course deals with pertinent issues in school psychology, such as ethics, theory, history and foundations of school psychology, legal issues, professional issues and standards, alternative models for delivery of school psychological services, as well as, roles and foundations of the school psychologist.
Cognitive and academic assessment and psychological case report writing, focusing on standardized measures, as well as authentic and direct techniques, and treating the topics from perspectives in data based decision making and intervention for children with learning and behavior problems.