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Educ Inquiry, Measurement, & Evaluation
Duration 4 year(s)
Tuition Fee
USD 40,848 / year
Next Intake 5-Sep-2023
Educ Inquiry, Measurement, & Evaluation
About
1. Students will demonstrate ability to find, interpret, and evaluate published research and evaluation studies relevant to current issues and policy questions in public education and prepare a comprehensive summary report designed to communicate the findings and recommendations to public school adminisrators and policy makers at the local or state level.
Exercise Conscious Ethical Judgment
2. Students will show evidence that they have acquired conscious ethical judgment and demonstrate an understanding of and sensitivity to the kinds of ethical issues that frequently arise when conducting educational research; evaluating educational programs and curricula; or constructing, administering, interpreting, and reporting the results of tests and other assessments of what students have and have not learned. Note: This is an ambitious, multifaceted goal and one that is challenging to assess, but it is too important to ignore or to substitute with a lesser goal that is more directly measureable but does not represent our real intent. We have deliberately used the phrases "conscious ethical judgment" and "understanding and sensitivity to the kinds of ethical issues thar frequently arise" in describing the intended learning outcome here because we have not been able to find alternative words that better describe our intent. These two phrases each represent a latent construct, but they describe our real goals. We have listed specific indicator behaviors in the next column that we are willing to accept as evidence of the extent to which these latent goals have or have not been achieved. However, the indicator behaviors are not the real goals. They are simply behavioral manifestations that we are willing to accept as evidence of our real intent. The phrases we have listed as the real goals provide a context in which the indicators become worth achieving. Without these general instrucitonal objectives, the indicator behaviors lack significance. The approach we have taken is consistent with the twofold approach to describing expected learning outcomes popularized by Norman Gronlund in the l960s and 1970s and in the many subsequent editions of his widely used textbook in response to the behaviorist approach advocated by Robert Mager which trivialized education and reduced it to training. Gronlund advocated writing expected learning otucomes at two, complementary levels which he called General Instructional Objectves (GIOs) and Specific Learner Outcomes (SLOs). The SLOs are operational definitions of the accompanying GIOs or indicator behaviors, but each SLO lacks meaning and significance outside of the context of the accompanying GIO. Together, the GIOs and the accompanying SLOs communicate the real intent and what the instructor is willing to accept as evidence that the intent has or has not been achieved. The first two or leftmost columns in BYU's grid are consistent with the approach advocated by Gronlund. But requiring the outcome described in the first column to be written as an indicator behavior is not only unnecessary, but it defeats the purpose for having two different, but complementary columns. Gronlund advocaes using the term "understanding" as a GIO, and then defining it in terms of acceptable manifest behaviors in the SLOs. Having said all this, i want to add that I have tried to describe our intended goal in the "Program Lerning Outcome" column accompanied by indicator behaviors in the "Evidence " column. I welcome suggestions about how to better describe our real intent in this situation, but I am not interested in misrepresenting or trivializing that intent.
Analyze and Critique Research Proposals Prepared by Others
3. Students will demonstrate the knowledge and skills needed to evaluate written proposals submitted by other scholars to conduct research and/or measurement stuides and formulate constructive suggestions for improving the proposed project.
Plan an Original Research or Measurement Study
4. Students will demonstrate the knowledge, skills, and dispositions needed to plan an original research or measurement study that is likely to contribute to improving educational theory, practice, and/or policy.
Requirements
Entry Requirements
Every applicant must meet the following minimum requirements:
- Application - Submit an application by the program deadline
- $50 non-refundable application fee
- Honor Code Commitment and Ecclesiastical Endorsement
- Receive at least a 3.0 grade-point average in the cumulative undergraduate GPA from a regionally accredited university in the United States, or a comprehensive grade-point average of 3.0 from an equivalent university outside the United States. GPAs from international institutions will be calculated by a credential-evaluation service as noted below.
- The following accrediting organizations in the United States are acceptable:
- Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools
- New England Association of Schools and Colleges
- North Central Association of Colleges and Schools
- Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities
- Western Association of Schools and Colleges
- Southern Association of Colleges and Schools
- The following accrediting organizations in the United States are acceptable:
- Evidence of Bachelor’s Degree and Transcripts
Additionally, international applicants must take the TOEFL or IELTS English Proficiency Exam and meet university English proficiency minimums. Please note that some departments may have higher requirements.
LDS applicants need an ecclesiastical endorsement interview with a bishop and a stake president. Non-LDS applicants need an ecclesiastical endorsement from their local religious leader and a phone interview with the BYU Chaplain. Continuing and currently enrolled BYU students applying for graduate school, as well as full-time BYU employees applying for a graduate program, must also obtain a new endorsement. All applicants are encouraged to complete the Ecclesiastical Endorsement process well in advance of their respective graduate program application deadlines to prevent possible delays in being considered for admission.
Start this process at endorse.byu.edu.
Fee Information
Tuition Fee
USD 40,848Application Fee
USD 50How to Apply
- Be willing to live to the Honor Code
- Submit ACT or SAT score (if required)
- Submit English Proficiency Score (If required)
- Submit full documentation of all required transcripts. Some U.S. applicants may have completed foreign high school or college work. This work will need evaluation by a third-party credential evaluation company. See Evaluating International Work for more details.
Educ Inquiry, Measurement, & Evaluation
Brigham Young University
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