Thesis

Catalog description

Upon completion of all Masters in Educational Leadership course work, including Research Methods, students will complete their Master’s Thesis or Capstone. The Master’s Thesis is a final product for the Master’s in Educational Leadership and is the culmination of the courses and experiences the student has encountered professionally and within the program. The Thesis is intended to help the students identify a problem to be addressed, develop appropriate research questions, critically evaluate and synthesize previous research surrounding this problem, create a valid research methodology for investigating the problem in their professional environment, analyze the findings of that investigation, and provide conclusions and recommendations based upon that analysis. This course must be completed at Marian University. Students must enroll in this course each semester until their thesis is completed. Graded S/U.