EDL 628 Analyzing and Using Data for Systemic Improvement

This course focuses on how well a school district or other learning community is functioning as an organization. Students combine sociological inquiry, systems analysis and program evaluation of organizational roles, structures, and dynamics with practitioner research methods to better understand and assess their school district’s or learning community’s organizational conditions, context, culture, and competencies. With the goal of uncovering and building organizational capacity from within, qualitative and quantitative research methods are applied to various organizational structures and operating systems that impact power distribution, information flow, collegiality, school climate, and leadership development. Prerequisite(s): Admission to the Educational Leadership Doctoral Program. Co-requisite(s): None. 3 semester hours