FOUNDATIONS OF EDUCATION
Ph.D. track in Educational Research and Evaluation
Curriculum
There are six components of the program leading to the doctor of philosophy in education:
• Foundations component (nine hours minimum). This component emphasizes theoretical and social issues in urban institutional development and changes that all leaders in urban service institutions must understand and respond to within their leadership positions.
• Research component (12 hours minimum). This component emphasizes the prerequisite skills essential to designing, conducting, and interpreting research. It also provides the research, statistical, and computer tools and resources necessary to produce research beneficial to the urban leader. Students are required to demonstrate competency in areas of research methodology and statistics appropriate to doctoral level study prior to enrolling for courses in this component. An applicant’s level of research competence is considered prior to admission. Research related prerequisites and/or corequisites may be established for individuals based on past academic and/or work experience.
• Concentration component (15 hours minimum). This component is designed to allow the student to pursue a series of courses that provide a specific focus and serve as the student’s primary discipline. These courses are expected to develop the in-depth knowledge and skills in an identifiable area that is congruent with the student’s current or projected career field. It is at this point in the program that the student pursues study in one of the following tracks:
– educational leadership
– instructional leadership
– adult education and human resource development
– urban services leadership
– research and evaluation
Students admitted to the adult education and training track without prior course work in adult education may be required to take one or two prerequisite courses: ADLT 601 The Adult Learner and ADLT 603 Instructional Strategies for Adults.
• Cognate component (nine hours minimum). This component is designed to allow the student to pursue, through course work outside the primary discipline, a secondary field of study that complements the student’s concentration component.
• Externship component (three hours minimum). The semester externship refers to a minimum of 150 hours of on-site work experience designed to enhance the student’s program, career goals and professional development. The externship site is outside the setting in which the student is employed currently and ideally in a different, but related, career area in which the student has had no or limited prior work experience. It is expected that the student will develop an appreciation for the network of service delivery systems in the urban setting and acquire additional leadership skills to function more effectively within that network. Externships are developed jointly by the student and the student’s adviser and approved by the director of graduate studies. Students may begin the externship experience only after being awarded Continuing Doctoral Status. The required 150 clock hours of the externship may be extended over two consecutive semesters, if appropriate.
• Dissertation component (nine hours minimum). This component consists of EDUS 890 Dissertation Seminar, three hours, and EDUS 899 Dissertation Research, six hours. EDUS 890 Dissertation Seminar is designed to aid the student in identifying the resources and refining the skills required to initiate, develop and complete a scholarly prospectus and dissertation. The remaining credit hours of EDUS 899 Dissertation Research are assigned to the scholarly pursuit and completion of the dissertation.
• Restricted elective (three hours minimum). To be taken in either the Concentration, Cognate, or Dissertation Component.
Foundation component 9
-EDUS 701 Urban Education
-SOCY 650 Theories of Social and Institutional Change
-PHIL 713/PPAD 713 Ethics and Public Policy
-or PHIL 635 Philosophy of the Social Sciences
Research component 12
-STAT/SOCY 608 Statistics for Social Research
-EDUS 710 Educational Research Design
-EDUS 711 Qualitative Methods and Analysis
Three credit selective
Concentration component 15
Educational leadership track (recommended sequence)
-TEDU 617 Instructional Models
-ADMS 701 Development and Implementation of
-Administrative Policies in Education
-ADMS 704 School Business Administration
-ADMS 705 Planning Educational Facilities
-ADMS 707 Advanced Educational Law
Instructional leadership track (required sequence)
-TEDU 617 Instructional Models
-ADMS 701 Development and Implementation of Administrative Policies in Education
-TEDU 730 Educational Staff Development
-TEDU 731 Instructional Theories and Strategies Elective
Adult education and human resource development track
(select five of the following courses)
-ADLT 700 Management of Adult Education and Human Resource Development Programs
-ADLT 701 Advanced Program Planning in Adult Education and Human Resource Development
-ADLT 702 Seminar in Adult Learning Theories
-ADLT 703 The Adult Education and Human Resource Development Training Consultant
-ADLT 704 Groups, Teams and Organizational Learning
-ADLT 705 Global Human Resource Development
Urban services leadership track
Courses in career-relevant skills within an urban context with approval of adviser.
Research and evaluation track
(select five courses from the appropriate concentration)
Research concentration
-SOCY 623 Causal Analysis
-SOCY 605/PADM 605 Survey Research Methods
-EDUS 651 Topics in Education: Educational Research and Evaluation
-NURS 772 Advanced Qualitative Research Methods
-MGMT 643 Applied Multivariate Methods
-PPAD 721 Survey of Applied Research Methods
in Public Policy and Administration
-PPAD 711 Seminar in Public Policy and Administration I
Evaluation concentration
-EDUS 661 Educational Evaluation: Models and Designs
-EDUS 662 Educational Measurement and Evaluation
-EDUS 651 Topics in Education
-PPAD 627 Workshop in Policy Analysis and Evaluation
-SOCY 605/PADM 605 Survey Research Methods
Cognate component 9
Educational leadership track
The concentration and cognate components combined must include at least nine credit hours outside of the School of Education.
Instructional leadership track
The cognate component must be developed outside of the School of Education .
Adult education and human resource development track
The cognate component must be developed outside of the School of Education .
Urban services leadership track
Either the concentration component or the cognate component, but not both, must be developed in the School of Education.
Research and evaluation track
Students who choose the research concentration are required to complete an evaluation cognate. Students who choose the evaluation concentration must complete a research cognate. The concentration and cognate components combined must
include at least nine credit hours outside of the School of Education .
Externship component 3
Dissertation component 9
-EDUS 890 Dissertation Seminar
-EDUS 899 Dissertation Research
Restricted elective 3
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Total 60