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Walter Ecton

Assistant Professor, Marsal Family School of Education

An early-career higher and postsecondary education scholar, Dr. Walter Ecton researches the intersections between high school, higher education, and the workforce, and the pathways students take as they navigate those sectors. 

His expertise in studying how youth and adults matriculate into and pursue post-secondary education through a lens of diversity, inclusion, justice, and equity will be a welcome addition to the Center for the Study of Higher and Postsecondary Education at the Marsal School.

He joins the faculty at Marsal Education after serving as an assistant professor of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies at Florida State University.

Courses

Number Course Name Location Days
EDUC 793
Introduction to Quantitative Methods in Educational Research

Prerequisites: Graduate standing at the doctoral level.
 
Surveys quantitative methods of inquiry as they are currently used in the study of the contexts, processes, and effects of education. Introduces students to elementary statistics, exploratory data analysis, research design, and computer-based data analysis methods.