EDUC.6440 Foundations for Practitioner Scholars (3cr)
This course will introduce students to seminal and recent work in the fields of philosophy, history, and psychology as they relate to education. Students will critically examine research and scholarly theory in these fields and their relationship to PK-12 Practice.
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CSCE Graduate Restrictions
EDUC.6910 Developing Inclusive School Contexts (3cr)
This course will introduce students to theory and research about structural inequities, barriers to education, and promising practices for addressing these barriers. Students will examine theory and research and implications for practice in PK-12 Leadership.
Requirements:
CSCE Graduate Restrictions
EDUC.6911 Introduction to Improvement Science (3cr)
This course is designed to provide PK-12 practitioners with an understanding of the principles of research design and the ethical responsibilities of conducting a research study. Participants will learn a broad range of research methodology approaches that can be applied to problems of practice. Participants will become skilled at reading, evaluating, and judging the trustworthiness of studies using different methodology approaches. They will design a practitioner-oriented research study.
Requirements:
CSCE Graduate Restrictions
EDUC.6920 Law, Policy, and Finance (3cr)
In this course students will examine scholarship and research in the areas of law, policy and finance as these affect educational practice. They will analyze law, policy and finance and its implications for leaders in PK-12 schools and school systems.
EDUC.6921 Quantitative Data Analysis for Practitioner Leaders (3cr)
The primary focus of this course is to prepare practitioner leaders to understand, interpret, and analyze quantitative data as it relates to their identified problem of practice.
EDUC.6922 Qualitative Research Methods Practitioner Leaders (3cr)
This is the first in a two-part sequence of courses that will introduce students to the scope of issues, techniques, and perspectives that compose qualitative research methodology. In this first course students will be introduced to historical, philosophical, and theoretical issues undergirding the approach, principles of research design, data collection techniques, and approaches for preliminary organization of the data. Students will also be introduced to literature and technologies of the field.
EDUC.6930 Organizational Learning (3cr)
This course will introduce students to research and theory in the field of organizational learning and its application to PK-12 practice. Students will study the origins, evolution and contemporary findings of research in this field. Students will explore the practical implications of organizational learning for PK-12 leadership.
Requirements:
CSCE Graduate Restrictions
EDUC.6931 Data Analysis for Practitioner Leaders (3cr)
This course is designed to provide second year EdD students opportunities to learn how experts in the field are applying principles of improvement science to address educational problems--particularly those related to equity. At the end of the course, students are expected to demonstrate how they will apply improvement science methods to address a persistent educational problem in their own school or system contexts.
EDUC.6940 Systems Leadership (3cr)
Drawing on organizational, management, and educational scholarship, this course introduces students to concepts and practices associated with strategic systems leadership. Students will apply their understandings of how to leverage both formal and informal sources of influence in their analysis of relevant teaching cases and the data they collect in an extensive field study project.
Requirements:
CSCE Graduate Restrictions
EDUC.6960 Strategic Partnering with Families and Communities (3cr)
This course will critically examine the variety of issues associated with partnering with parents, families and community organizations. Through analysis of theory, research and collective knowledge, doctoral students will learn how to strategically engage parents, families and community organizations and recognize the different forms of engagement. This course will emphasize collaborative strategies that "shares power" with key stakeholders in U.S. schools.
EDUC.6991 Reading and Applying Educational Research (3cr)
This course is designed to build student capacity for evidence-based decision making in K-12 schools. Specifically, it will advance student ability to locate educational research, evaluate it for quality, extract findings, and apply those findings to practice. Critically, the process of applying research to practice will consider local context and draw on stakeholder experiences, weaving them together with scholarship to develop school improvement plans.
EDUC.7501 Dissertation in Practice (3cr)
Ed.D. students will design their study, complete their proposal, conduct their study and defend their dissertation in practice, while enrolled in dissertation credit. This course is for ED.D. cohort students only.
EDUC.7502 Dissertation in Practice: Data Collection and Analysis (3cr)
In this second course of the EdD dissertation course series, students will collect and analyze data with the support of the course instructor.
EDUC.7503 Dissertation in Practice: Dissertation Completion (3cr)
In this final course of the EdD program students formally report on their data in a written dissertation that they defend at the end of the semester.