Enacting a Cycle of Inquiry Capstone Research Project in Doctoral-Level Leadership Preparation

2016 ◽  
pp. 162-183 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shelby Cosner ◽  
Steve Tozer ◽  
Paul Zavitkovsky
Keyword(s):  
Doctoral Students ◽  
Leadership Preparation ◽  
Program Improvement ◽  
Research Experience ◽  
Preparation Program ◽  
Doctoral Level ◽  
Cycle Of Inquiry ◽  
Principal Preparation Program ◽  
The University ◽  
Professional Doctorates

Over the last decade, the doctorate in Urban Education Leadership at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) has been redesigned to respond to two distinct but important challenges: (a) the challenge of creating greater distinction between the academic and professional doctorates, and (b) the challenge of improving the nature and quality of its principal preparation program. Within the context of a broader multi-year program improvement and redesign effort, program faculty designed and enacted an alternate Culminating Research Experience (CRE) for their doctoral students. This CRE emphasizes the leadership of cycles of inquiry for school-wide improvement over a two-year period of time and the subsequent analysis of this work using empirical and scholarly literature. The accounting provided in this article advances existing literature by making visible many of the important granular details associated with this CRE as well as considerations associated with its design and implementation within a doctoral-level leadership preparation program.

Enacting a Cycle of Inquiry Capstone Research Project in Doctoral-Level Leadership Preparation

2016 ◽  
pp. 1460-1481
Author(s):  
Shelby Cosner ◽  
Steve Tozer ◽  
Paul Zavitkovsky
Keyword(s):  
Doctoral Students ◽  
Leadership Preparation ◽  
Program Improvement ◽  
Research Experience ◽  
Preparation Program ◽  
Doctoral Level ◽  
Cycle Of Inquiry ◽  
Principal Preparation Program ◽  
The University ◽  
Professional Doctorates

Over the last decade, the doctorate in Urban Education Leadership at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) has been redesigned to respond to two distinct but important challenges: (a) the challenge of creating greater distinction between the academic and professional doctorates, and (b) the challenge of improving the nature and quality of its principal preparation program. Within the context of a broader multi-year program improvement and redesign effort, program faculty designed and enacted an alternate Culminating Research Experience (CRE) for their doctoral students. This CRE emphasizes the leadership of cycles of inquiry for school-wide improvement over a two-year period of time and the subsequent analysis of this work using empirical and scholarly literature. The accounting provided in this article advances existing literature by making visible many of the important granular details associated with this CRE as well as considerations associated with its design and implementation within a doctoral-level leadership preparation program.

Obtaining Validation from Graduates on a Restructured Principal Preparation Program

2009 ◽  
Vol 19 (5) ◽  
pp. 533-558 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julia Ballenger ◽  
Betty Alford ◽  
Sandra Mccune ◽  
Donice Mccune
Keyword(s):  
Educational Administration ◽  
Research Effort ◽  
Leadership Preparation ◽  
Colleges Of Education ◽  
Preparation Program ◽  
Program Comparison ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Principal Preparation Program ◽  
Survey Responses ◽  
The University

Colleges of education have come under scrutiny in their preparation of principals. Even professors of education have joined in the criticism characterizing these programs as bankrupt, fragmented, and going down a road to nowhere (Norton, 2002). This article is part of a collaborative research effort of the University Council for Educational Administration, the goal of which is to engage the leadership preparation field more broadly in the individual and comparative study of each program's effectiveness and impact (Orr & Pounder, 2006). This study used within-program comparison of follow-up survey responses from two sets of program graduates from a university-based leadership preparation program to determine differences in program features and outcome measures.

What’s Ethics Got to Do With It? Pedagogical Support for Ethical Student Learning in a Principal Preparation Program

2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 239-272 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carol A. Mullen
Keyword(s):  
Educational Administration ◽  
Principal Preparation ◽  
Leadership Preparation ◽  
Leadership Education ◽  
Preparation Program ◽  
Full Member ◽  
Principal Preparation Program ◽  
Education In Ethics ◽  
The University ◽  
University Council

The article’s purposes are to review research on leadership education in ethics and examine a pedagogic intervention designed to raise consciousness about ethical leadership and learning within graduate school. A yearlong study—carried out in a principal preparation program that is a full member of the University Council for Educational Administration—is the basis of the development and impact of an ethics unit. Understandings of ethics regarding leadership preparation standards and social justice orientations for preservice cohorts are analyzed. Qualitative methods used are a targeted literature review and a document analysis of assignments. Directions for research, pedagogy, and practice end this discussion.

scholarly journals Understanding Sampling and Recruitment in Social Work Dissertation Research

2017 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 415-436 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebecca G. Mirick ◽  
Ashley Davis ◽  
Stephanie P. Wladkowski
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Doctoral Students ◽  
Sampling Strategy ◽  
Marginalized Populations ◽  
Research Experience ◽  
Doctoral Level ◽  
Relational Support ◽  
Central Value ◽  
Dissertation Research ◽  
Study Participants

The field of social work has increasingly focused on improving the quantity and rigor of its research. For many social work doctoral students, their first independent research experience begins with their dissertation, and yet, little is known about the factors that facilitate students’ success during this process. Sample recruitment is one step where significant and unexpected challenges can occur. As social justice is the central value of the profession, social work doctoral students may focus on research with vulnerable or marginalized populations; however, little research has been done that focuses on social work dissertations, samples used, and the process of recruitment. In this study, 215 doctoral-level social work graduates who completed their degree within the past ten years were surveyed about their dissertation research, with a focus on the sampling strategy and recruitment processes. Findings show that students have a wide diversity of experiences with the dissertation process. While 64.6% anticipant challenges around recruitment and sampling, only 54.9% encounter challenges. Less than half (44.7%) of study participants received guidance during this process and most (80.5%) felt the dissertation experience impacted subsequent research, both positively (40.5%) and negatively (9.8%). Based on these findings, doctoral programs are encouraged to increase supports available to dissertating students, particularly those recruiting study participants from vulnerable and marginalized populations. These supports include community connections, skills for obtaining gatekeeper buy-in, and both relational support and advice from dissertation committees and other colleagues. 

Restructuring Educational Leadership Preparation: Identifying Needed Conditions

1994 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 28-38 ◽  
Author(s):  
John C. Daresh
Keyword(s):  
Educational Leadership ◽  
Leadership Preparation ◽  
Preparation Program ◽  
Northern Colorado ◽  
University Of Northern Colorado ◽  
The University ◽  
Educational Leadership Preparation ◽  
Linkage Relationships

In this article, a description is presented of the strategy and steps that were followed at the University of Northern Colorado in restructuring its educational leadership preparation program. Details are provided concerning the ways in which changes were made, and how these changes were supported through attention to personnel issues, linkage relationships within the university, and linkages outside the university.

Ready to Lead

2019 ◽  
pp. 184-204
Author(s):  
Jess R. Weiler ◽  
Heidi B. Von Dohlen
Keyword(s):  
School Leaders ◽  
Core Competencies ◽  
Field Experiences ◽  
Leadership Preparation ◽  
Leadership Capacity ◽  
Preparation Program ◽  
Collaborative Dialogue ◽  
Leadership Standards ◽  
Integral Role ◽  
Principal Preparation Program

This chapter shares the way in which one principal preparation program builds and assesses leadership capacity through the use of a tool called Core Competencies for School Leaders or CCSL. The CCSL tool views competencies as actionable behaviors that can be observed and measured in both quantitative and/or qualitative ways. Competencies cross several leadership domains, determined primarily by established state and national leadership standards. The CCSLs provide relevant, contextually responsive, standard-based, and research informed field experiences. The authors purport the CCSLs and the wrap-around processes of which learning is dependent (e.g., reflection, collaborative dialogue, feedback), advance awareness, and capacity across leadership domains. Competencies serve to both build and evaluate leadership capacity. In conjunction with other research informed practices for leadership preparation, competencies can play an integral role in the development and growth of aspiring school leaders.

scholarly journals Formarse en la Investigación Educativa: una Comunidad de Pensamiento en Torno a la Escritura de la Tesis Doctoral

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 241
Author(s):  
Emma Quiles-Fernández ◽  
Julio Hizmeri ◽  
Roxana Hormazábal Fajardo
Keyword(s):  
Narrative Inquiry ◽  
Doctoral Students ◽  
Doctoral Training ◽  
Research Experience ◽  
The University ◽  
Methodological Aspects ◽  
Educative Experiences ◽  
Academic Demands

This article explores educative experiences we had as doctoral students in a community of knowledge inside the University of Barcelona. We deepen understandings around the process we lived for five years, as well as we point out theoretical and methodological aspects that framed the process itself. Embracing narrative inquiry as methodology, we enhance the need of shifting some of the doctoral training practices that traditional academic systems still hold. Through our stories, we show bumps and tensions that might emerge in living and working in a community of knowledge. We also raise challenges that beginning researchers are currently facing in the educational landscape. Those challenges are related to the ways in which we inquire, approach, attend to, and name the research experience in the context of increasingly high academic demands.

Five Decades of Research Experience in Speech Anatomy and Physiology

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (5) ◽  
pp. 4-12
Author(s):  
David P. Kuehn
Keyword(s):  
Ohio State University ◽  
State University ◽  
Research Experience ◽  
University Of Iowa ◽  
University Of Illinois ◽  
Anatomy And Physiology ◽  
The Ohio State University ◽  
Speech Science ◽  
The University ◽  
East Carolina University

This report highlights some of the major developments in the area of speech anatomy and physiology drawing from the author's own research experience during his years at the University of Iowa and the University of Illinois. He has benefited greatly from mentors including Professors James Curtis, Kenneth Moll, and Hughlett Morris at the University of Iowa and Professor Paul Lauterbur at the University of Illinois. Many colleagues have contributed to the author's work, especially Professors Jerald Moon at the University of Iowa, Bradley Sutton at the University of Illinois, Jamie Perry at East Carolina University, and Youkyung Bae at the Ohio State University. The strength of these researchers and their students bodes well for future advances in knowledge in this important area of speech science.

INTRODUCTION TO RISK AND SAFETY OF AIR NAVIGATION

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fedja Netjasov
Keyword(s):  
Doctoral Students ◽  
Traffic Engineering ◽  
International Standards ◽  
Air Transport ◽  
Civil Aviation ◽  
Undergraduate Studies ◽  
Recommended Practices ◽  
The University ◽  
Navigation Safety

"Introduction to Risk and Safety of Air Navigation" is an authorized script compiled on the basis of the curriculum of the course "Introduction to Risk and Safety of Air Navigation" which is taught in undergraduate studies at the University of Belgrade - Faculty of Transport and Traffic Engineering. The scripts are primarily intended for students of undergraduate (bachelor) studies at the Department of Air Transport and Traffic at the University of Belgrade - Faculty of Transport and Traffic Engineering. Scripts can be useful to both master's and doctoral students at the University of Belgrade - Faculty of Transport and Traffic Engineering, especially those who have not completed undergraduate studies at the Department of Air Transport and Traffic. They can also be useful to air transport and aeronautical engineers in order to expand and update knowledge in the field of air navigation safety. The material presented in these scripts relates mainly to civil aviation and is largely based on international standards, recommended practices, regulations and documents which deal with issues related to air navigation safety. As these standards, regulations and documents are subject to frequent changes and alterations, users of these scripts are advised to also use the original (updated) documents, which are listed in the references, in order to take into account any changes that have occurred after the release of the scripts.

Developing Pre-Service Teachers’ Skills in Post-Secondary Transition Through Applied Practice

2021 ◽  
pp. 875687052098230
Author(s):  
Kelly Ann Swindlehurst ◽  
Ann Bassett Berry
Keyword(s):  
Students With Disabilities ◽  
Transition To Adulthood ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Program Improvement ◽  
Teacher Preparation Program ◽  
Secondary Transition ◽  
Preparation Program ◽  
Teachers Perceptions ◽  
Post Secondary ◽  
The Impact

The need for special educators who can support students with disabilities in the transition to adulthood is well documented in the literature. In this article, we will report on the program improvement efforts by one university to embed more evidence-based transition practices into their pre-service teacher preparation program with the support of a state personnel development grant. Key aspects of the program revision will be outlined and accompanied by online resources for faculty to utilize when seeking to improve their special education preparation program in the area of post-secondary transition. The pre-service teachers’ perceptions of the impact of the revision are included in the discussion; along with suggestions for future directions, research, and work in rural areas.

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