MSc in
Master in Science of Learning and Assessment HSE University
Scholarships
Introduction
New program. First enrollment in 2021.
The program will train students in understanding and assessing human capabilities across the lifespan. Our students will gain strong competence in developmental science, advanced methods of neuroscience and psychometrics, and have opportunities to work with big data and game technologies. Graduates will be able to create tests, examine issues related to learning from infancy and childhood to adulthood and old age, analyze data, and evaluate research outcomes that can lead to educational applications. The goal of the program will be to produce leaders in learning science and assessment who can create tools for improving life-long learning and well-being.
Program Overview
This is an interdisciplinary program at the intersection of psychology, neuroscience, biology, and machine learning merged with the theory and practice of testing and measurements. By combining courses, students create an individual trajectory for their research goals and gain skills from various teaching approaches to understanding mental processes such as thinking, learning, and personality development.
Students will have the opportunity to work with physiological and neuroimaging methods such as eye-tracking, electroencephalography (EEG), and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to relate physiological and brain metrics to mental processes such as cognition, affect, and action.
Students can also train on psychometric approaches for assessing and developing tools that can describe and predict human performance in children and adults. By mastering such methods students gain skills for creating, adapting, gamifying tests, and other tools.
Importantly, students learn by practice to design experiments, recruit research participants, collect data, analyze data with advanced statistical and machine learning methods. They gain experience in interpreting the data for practical applications in education and industry and in presenting their research in written and oral form.
The program features academic and industry internships with HSE laboratories and centers, as well as external partners.