About the program and its main topics
The Ph.D. program in Educational Psychology/Measurement and Evaluation was established with the establishment of the Department of Educational Psychology in the academic year 1987/1988. The study plan of the program consists of (54) credit hours, and the compulsory study subjects (21), elective (15), and thesis (18) hours of the program are distributed in three areas of knowledge as follows: First: Scientific Research: It includes the following subjects: Qualitative Research Methods (1), and Qualitative Research Methods (2). Second: Statistics: It includes: relational statistical methods, variance analysis of multiple dependent variables, models of structural equations in education, and non-parametric statistics. Third: Measurement: It includes the following subjects: paragraph response theory, issues in measurement and evaluation, grading of scales, and the use of computers in measurement. Evaluation: It includes: mental assessment, evaluation of programs in education, measurement and evaluation from a cognitive perspective. Fourth: Developmental and Learning Psychology, which includes the following subjects: learning and teaching models and strategies, learning and knowledge, adolescent psychology, thinking and learning in social contexts.
Program Vision
A distinguished program locally, regionally, and internationally for the doctorate in psychological and educational measurement and evaluation. It keeps pace with knowledge progress and contributes effectively to the production of knowledge and its applications to serve society and the world.
Program Mission
Preparing researchers and specialists who seek in-depth and specialized knowledge that qualifies them to contribute to increasing the effectiveness of the measurement and evaluation process in educational institutions at all levels. Provide the community with qualified specialized researchers capable of planning, implementing and evaluating
Program Objectives
1. Providing research cadres in Jordanian universities and research centers that carry out research in the fields of growth and learning.
2. Qualifying learners and empowering them with knowledge and skills, keeping pace with scientific and technological development in psychological and educational measurement and evaluation, and developing research and investigation skills for original topics and issues in measurement and evaluation that contribute to scientific progress and proposing solutions to theoretical and practical issues and problems.
3. Training learners on: building psychological and educational measurement and evaluation tools, experimenting with them, building their standards, codifying foreign psychological and educational measurement and evaluation tools for the Jordanian environment, selecting and applying appropriate psychological and educational measurement and evaluation tools, interpreting their results and writing reports about them, enabling students to employ the applications of modern theory in measurement in the educational and psychological field, evaluating educational programs according to different aspects, and working on the applications of grading scales according to different aspects, in addition to choosing Employing simple and advanced statistical methods in quantitative research, addressing methodologies and tools in qualitative research, and how to write qualitative research.