EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP    (EDL)




EDL 7011. Multi-Disciplinary Seminar on Emerging
Issues I/(3).F.
A multi-disciplinary seminar to
examine current and emerging issues in society and
their impact on public education. The course draws
upon readings from a variety of disciplines for
students to examine and to reflectively explore
fundamental questions about: the nature and
purpose of education; how educators conceive of
and understand teaching and learning in schools
and classrooms; and how educational leaders
conceive of and understand the complex relations
between schools, teachers, learners, and
curriculum.




EDL 7012. Multi-Disciplinary Seminar on Emerging
Issues II/(3).
A continuation of EDL 7011. This seminar will
feature different professional disciplines in
developing an understanding of the context of
public school administration. The seminar will
include comprehensive treatments of how leaders
use information in shaping and communicating
their vision and values throughout organizations.
Students will be expected to assume more
responsibility for building responses to issues
presented in this seminar.




EDL 7020. Organizational and Systems
Theory/(3).
This course will integrate essential features of
research in organizational theory with the more
recent developments in systems theory. How people
and groups organize to accomplish tasks will be
combined with how organizations combine to form
systems. A special feature of the course will be
its treatment of organizations and systems for
public, non-profit enterprises. Models and case
studies will be featured.




EDL 7025. Leadership in Organizations/(3).F.
Brings into coherent form the application of
leadership principles to organizations.
Leadership is seen as the mechanism for putting
both organizational and system theories into
action, to enhance school environments, and to
sustain structures for change. Extensive use of
case studies will be featured.




EDL 7030. Concepts and Constructs in Curriculum
and Instruction/(3).S.
Designed to explore and critically examine the
structure, concepts, issues and decisions
underlying curriculum and instructional thought
as practiced in public schools. Instruction will
utilize a polyfocal conspectus, study of cases,
simulation, and juris prudential experiences.
Included in the products used to evaluate student
performance are: development of cases, impact
statements, literature reviews, and similar
projects.




EDL 7040. Educational Organizations and Technology/(3).F.
Students in this course will
develop strategies for forming and implementing a
vision for incorporating computer and
communications technologies into educational
settings. They will have an opportunity, as
current and future educational leaders, to
investigate examples of these technologies in
schools and other educational settings. These
experiences, combined with appropriate leadership
skills, will enable current and future educational
leaders to successfully plan for and implement
computer and communications technologies into
their respective educational settings.




EDL 7050. School Finance and Business
Administration/(3).F.
Designed to examine current practices in public
finance. Emphasis will be placed on the funding
for public schools, and the relationship of that
funding to the support for other public and
private agencies. Demographics and political
trends will be used to project funding needs for
planning purposes. The course also examines the
application of current management practices to
the business administration function of public
school administration. Particular emphasis is
placed on the relationship between facilities
planning and funding practices in public
education.




EDL 7060. Public and Interpersonal
Communications/(3).SS.
Designed to provide insight and techniques to
inform and communicate within the organizational
system and target audiences, as well as to the
constituencies served. Concepts to be explored
include opinion gathering, advertising,
dissemination strategies, and ways to influence
public opinion. Focuses on the principles of
conflict resolution, team building, and other
aspects of effective interpersonal communications
as well.




EDL 7099. Professional Seminar/(1).F;S.
The purpose of this seminar is to
provide doctoral students an opportunity to
discuss topics arising from course work; to report
on internships and research assistantships; and to
explore possible dissertation topics. Individual
faculty and faculty panels will, from time to
time, join the seminar to discuss their research.
Seminar students will develop a portfolio
reflecting the development of dissertation topics.
The portfolio will provide students a means by
which they can present evidence of their progress
for consideration by advisors and other faculty.
Students should expect to maintain the portfolio
throughout their course work. Graded on an S/U
basis only. (Students are required to take EDL
7099, Professional Seminar, for three semesters,
for a total of three credit hours.)




EDL 7110. Survey of Quantitative Research
Methodologies in Education Research/(3).F.
The course provides students with the requisite
skills for reading and understanding contemporary
research in education, and examining researchers'
motivations for selecting particular research and
assessment methodologies.  The course will
acquaint students with the wide variety of sources
of research journals; to a variety of available
databases; to a variety of available measurement
and assessment instruments; and to a wide range of
methodological applications in education.  The
research examples will be from the wide area of
educational leadership.




EDL 7120. Advanced Tests and Measurements/(3).On
Demand.
Familiarize advanced graduate students with the
techniques of instrument construction and
validation and with the analysis of scores
obtained from psychometric instruments.
Techniques for designing survey instruments and
tests of achievement and the analysis of the
results of interest and personality inventories
and other mental measurements will be covered.
Prerequisite: EDL 7110 or equivalent.




EDL 7130. Multivariate Statistics/(3).On Demand.
Emphasizes the use of statistical tools to
organize and analyze large and complex data bases
using multiple correlation, factor analysis,
cluster analysis, discriminant analysis, and
trend analysis techniques. 
Prerequisite:  EDL 7110 or equivalent.




EDL 7140. Advanced Experimental Design/(3).On
Demand.
Deals with the use of complex and incomplete
experimental designs and their analysis using F
ratios and other techniques such as trend
analysis, comparisons among means, estimation of
sample size necessary to achieve a specified
power, computation of variance components and
measures of strength of association. Analysis
will be done primarily with the BMDP statistical
package. Prerequisites: A background in
statistics, EDL 7110, or permission of instructor.




EDL 7150. Inferential Statistics/(3).On Demand.
Deals with the application of parametric and
non-parametric techniques in hypothesis testing
and other inferential situations. The course
includes some basic hypothesis testing theory, as
well as theory involving various well known types
of distributions of data. Students will have
the opportunity to learn techniques for determining 
probability estimates in hypothesis testing and will 
also be required to use the Statistical Package for 
the Social Sciences (SPSS) in hypothesis testing tasks 
using SPSS/PC+ Studentware. Prerequisites:  A background
in statistics, EDL 7110 or permission of
instuctor.




EDL 7160. Qualitative Research Methods/(3).
This course emphasizes qualitative methods of
data analysis and collection and how they can be
compared and contrasted to quantitative research.
Students will be expected to learn a variety of
observational methods and interview techniques.
Selecting from these methods, students will
design and implement their own research projects.
This course will emphasize the process of
producing and interpreting qualitative research
by critically examining the intricate
relationships between theories, hypotheses,
variables, and data. Prerequisites are an
introductory course in tests and measurements, an
introductory descriptive statistics course, and a
course in inferential statistics.




EDL 7170. Program Evaluation and Policy Analysis/(3).S.
This course provides a broad
survey of educational evaluation theory and
practice, and the relationship of evaluation to
educational policy analysis, along with practical
experience in designing educational evaluations
and policy studies. The course begins with an
examination of the historical underpinnings of
educational evaluation and policy analysis, their
role in improving education, their points of
distinction from other forms of systematic
inquiry, and the origins of the variety of
alternative conceptions of evaluation and policy
analysis in practice today. This examination is
followed by an in-depth study of a variety of
evaluation and policy analysis models.




EDL 7180. Advanced Qualitative Research in
Education/(3).S.
The course provides students with advanced
knowledge (i.e., the theoretical bases) and skills
in qualitative research.  Advanced-level analysis
and interpretation, linked with the theoretical
underpinnings of both general qualitative research
and the doctoral student's particular preferred
method, will be a central focus of this course. 
Individual attention will be given the student, to
the extent possible.  Honing of the student's
writing (i.e., presentation/representation of a
qualitative study) will also be a prominent aspect
of this course.  Students will undertake a
small-scale qualitative study in this course in
order to concretize and apply the concepts and
practice the skills learned.




EDL 7500. Independent Study/(1-3).On Demand.




EDL 7530-7549. Selected Topics/(1-4).On Demand.




EDL 7900. Internship/(3-6).On Demand.
The internship is a full-year experience under
the co-sponsorship of an appropriate educational
agency and Appalachian State University.  The
student will engage in activities designed to
bring the relationship of theory and practice into
clear focus.  Attendance at seminars on campus
will be required.




EDL 7989. Doctoral Research/(1-9).F;S.
This course is designed to provide access to
University facilities for continuing doctoral
research.  It is graded on an S/U basis and does
not count toward a degree.




EDL 7999. Dissertation/(1-9).On Demand.
Students must complete a minimum of 6 s.h. to
satisfy the Ed.D. degree requirements. Students
are advised to register for 3 s.h. for two
consecutive semesters to complete requirements. If
requirements are not complete at this time,
students will continue to register for a minimum
of 1 s.h. until the dissertation is complete.