This course explores alternative approaches to formative and summative evaluation of educational programs and standards for effective evaluations. Students consider epistemological, political, and practical issues involved in designing and conducting evaluations; critique specific studies relevant to educational administration and policy-making; and design an evaluation.

Students receive faculty guidance in dissertation research.

This course assists students in writing an outstanding dissertation proposal. The course is organized as a writing workshop, with ongoing collaborative study of the dissertation proposal genre and writing and discussion of drafts of portions of student proposals under development.

ED 284 offers an examination of survey research methods and their applications to educational research and evaluation. Attention is given to types of surveys, research design and sampling, survey construction, development of survey questions, response formats, data collection, analysis of survey data, and reporting survey results.

This second year seminar focuses on the development and refinement of the student's qualifying paper that will serve as partial fulfillment of requirements related to advancement to candidacy within the CSU/UCI Ed.D. program. The qualifying paper takes the form of a review of the scholarly literature related to a significant educational issue/topic/problem of the student's choice. The qualifying paper provides the program faculty with a substantive example of student work directly related to the ability of the student to continue in the program and to eventually produce a quality dissertation. The content of this seminar is organized around the assessment criteria that faculty reviewers use to evaluate the qualifying papers.