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Educational Foundations 890

EDEF 890
Doctoral Research in Education

1. Catalog Entry

EDEF 890
Doctoral Research in Education

Credit hours (3)
Prerequisite: This class is offered for students accepted into the Doctoral Program in Education. Students must have successfully completed a pre-prospectus meeting with a committee of program faculty.

This course is designed to be the capstone research component of the Doctorate in Education program. Students repeat the course for a minimum of nine credit hours or until successful completion of the dissertation defense.

2 Detailed Description of Course

This course is designed to facilitate the capstone research component of the Doctorate in Education program. Students will design and implement a research project independently. Toe content focuses on these components of the research process and final project:
• Successful proposal meeting
• IRB approval (when appropriate)
• Chapter I: Overview and Summary
• Chapter II: Comprehensive Literature review
• Chapter III: Methodology
• Chapter IV: Results
• Chapter V: Discussion
• References and Appendices
• Successful defense meeting

3. Detailed Description of Conduct of Course

This course is designed to be the capstone research component of the Doctorate in Education program. As such, students are expected to complete an original research project that is of sufficient size and quality to justify the student being considered competent to conduct research independently. Course implementation will be individualized and mentored by faculty who will provide direction to the student, assist with identifying committee membership, and facilitate committee evaluation of student work.

4. Goals and Objectives of the Course

Upon successful completion of course requirements, students will:
• Develop an idea for an independent comprehensive research project.
• Conduct a thorough literature review to justify the need to conduct the research.
• Design a study or series of studies that will provide appropriate data to answer the research questions/hypotheses.
• Analyze the resulting data.
• Discuss the results and place them in the larger context of the extant literature.
• Describe the limitations to the study and provide direction for future researchers .
• Propose a research project to an IRB, when appropriate, and have it approved.

5. Assessment Measures

Students will be assessed using several measures which may include their oral and written performance in a proposal meeting and final defense meeting and, when appropriate, IRB review and approval. The final product must be approved by the dissertation committee and the College of Graduate Studies and Research.

6. Other Course Information

None

Review and Approval

May 2017