Capstone Experience

Catalog description

EDUC 894 is a practicum research experience for the Doctor of Education program (D.Ed.); as such, the course expects the student to research and critically analyze a topic aligned with the student's career interests. The course covers all phases of the research process from identifying problems of practice, to reviewing literature, identifying study methods and analytical techniques, and scholarly writing of research papers. Students in a D.Ed. degree program must communicate a high level of knowledge of the subject based upon their development of research questions, gathering of sources, and completion of a high-quality scholarly paper that integrates their knowledge. This course provides the student an opportunity to apply knowledge, concepts, and theories to investigate a problem of practice. The overall goals of this research practicum are to provide students with a supervised opportunity to participate in the process of conceptualizing, implementing, and analyzing, and/or writing research studies directed towards problems of practice. Practicum experiences may encompass early, mid, and late phases of research activity.