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School Psychology Qualifying Process

Assignment of Adviser

The No later than the beginning of the third semester, the qualifying process adviser will be assigned by the School Psychology faculty, with input from the student, at the beginning of the 3rd semester. Choosing an and is typically the student's research mentor. An outside area/program committee qualifying process adviser is an option with the approval of the School Psychology faculty and the intended outside area/program adviser.

Document

The student must submit for examination a document comparable to a scholarly work in the field. The options are:

1. A document that includes an integrative review of the literature and a proposal for a study that addresses an important issue arising from the review of literature. This is the “Traditional Qualifying Process Format”, below.

2. A research-based master’s thesis written under the supervision of a UT-Austin Educational Psychology faculty member (requires registration in only one semester of EDP 395R).

3. An article describing a research study on which the student is first author and which is written under the supervision of a UT-Austin Educational Psychology faculty member. The manuscript is expected to be submitted to a respectable journal.