Mar 28, 2024  
2020-2021 Graduate Catalog 
    
2020-2021 Graduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

EDL 740 - Inquiry for Decision Making


This advanced doctoral level course is designed to give students the opportunity to discuss, expand, and apply what has been learned in other courses concerning inquiry in higher education. The course topics focus upon providing information for decision support through such activities as applied research, assessment, institutional research, and planning. The primary goal of the course is to prepare students to assess or supervise the assessment of programs, services, facilities, student outcomes, etc.; to identify information needs and obtain pertinent and accurate information that will assist in the decision-making process; to design and implement applied research and assessment tools to analyze, synthesize, and interpret information from multiple sources; to communicate information to others and to apply relevant information to the processes of supervision, program development, policy formation, budgeting, etc.

Credits: 3