It’s Time to Make More Room for Program Evaluation in the Education Doctorate Program
This essay highlights the value of an applied methodology course in program evaluation in the education doctorate program by exploring several benefits that it offers to enhance a doctoral student’s ability to solve complex problems of practice. Observations and recommendations are made based on de...
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This essay highlights the value of an applied methodology course in program evaluation in the education doctorate program by exploring several benefits that it offers to enhance a doctoral student’s ability to solve complex problems of practice. Observations and recommendations are made based on designing and teaching two cohorts of EdD students in a program evaluation course. Improvement science is referenced throughout to highlight how the two may complement each other, not to place a higher value on one or the other. How and where program evaluation and improvement science appear to have possible areas of overlap, along with a brief overview of the major differences, are discussed. The author maintains that both program evaluation and improvement constitute a tremendous capacity to provide the ideas, tools, and approaches to prepare students to be the change agents they hope to aspire to be in their present and future roles as scholarly practitioners.
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| spelling | doaj.art-886077961a5743d29cddef605577c0b72023-09-05T15:30:13ZengUniversity Library System, University of PittsburghImpacting Education2472-58892023-09-018410.5195/ie.2023.335It’s Time to Make More Room for Program Evaluation in the Education Doctorate ProgramJessica A. Marotta0Marymount University This essay highlights the value of an applied methodology course in program evaluation in the education doctorate program by exploring several benefits that it offers to enhance a doctoral student’s ability to solve complex problems of practice. Observations and recommendations are made based on designing and teaching two cohorts of EdD students in a program evaluation course. Improvement science is referenced throughout to highlight how the two may complement each other, not to place a higher value on one or the other. How and where program evaluation and improvement science appear to have possible areas of overlap, along with a brief overview of the major differences, are discussed. The author maintains that both program evaluation and improvement constitute a tremendous capacity to provide the ideas, tools, and approaches to prepare students to be the change agents they hope to aspire to be in their present and future roles as scholarly practitioners. https://impactinged.pitt.edu/ojs/ImpactingEd/article/view/335education doctorateprogram evaluationimprovement scienceCarnegie Project on the Education Doctorate (CPED) |
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| title | It’s Time to Make More Room for Program Evaluation in the Education Doctorate Program |
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| title_short | It’s Time to Make More Room for Program Evaluation in the Education Doctorate Program |
| title_sort | it s time to make more room for program evaluation in the education doctorate program |
| topic | education doctorate program evaluation improvement science Carnegie Project on the Education Doctorate (CPED) |
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