PREFACE *

PROGRAM PLANNING *

RESEARCH REQUIREMENT *

COMPREHENSIVE EXAMINATION PREREQUISITE *

COMPREHENSIVE EXAMINATION PROCEDURE *

DISSERTATION PROCESS *

PROGRAM POLICIES *

Appendix A: RESIDENCY AGREEMENT FOR PHD. *

Appendix B: ED.D PERIOD OF CONTINUOUS STUDY AGREEMENT *

Appendix C: PLAN FOR MEETING REQUIREMENT *

Appendix D: DOCTORAL GRADUATION CHECKLIST FOR PH.D. *

Appendix E: DOCTORAL GRADUATION CHECKLIST FOR ED.D. *

Appendix F: GUIDELINES FOR COMPREHENSIVE EXAMINATION *

APPENDIX G: CHANGE OF ADVISOR AND/OR COMMITTEE MEMBER *

Appendix H: Program Plans For Ed.D *

Appendix I: Program Plans For Ph.D. *

Appendix J: School of Education Faculty *

Appendix K & L: Scoring GuideS for Written Comprehensive Exam *

Acting on behalf of the Department of Teaching and Leadership Graduate Committee, the graduate admissions advisor evaluates all requests for admissions to doctoral study within the department. Final admission decisions are made by the School of Education. Prior to recommending the applicant for admission, the graduate admissions advisor secures agreement from a department faculty member, who holds the right to chair doctoral dissertations, to act as advisor. Admission requests referred to the Graduate Committee in cases where:

(a) the student does not clearly qualify for admission, or

Applicants new to graduate study at the University of Kansas must submit the following materials to the department’s graduate admissions advisor:

• Application for admission to the Graduate School, along with a nonrefundable $25 application fee.
• A career goal statement.
• Two official transcripts of all college level academic work, both graduate and undergraduate.
• Scores of at least 500 each on the verbal and quantitative sections on the Graduate Record Examination.
• Three letters of recommendation from people who can comment on the applicant’s ability to complete a program of doctoral study – not character references. For Ed.D. candidates only, one of these letters of recommendation should indicate that the student has a record of at least 18 months of successful professional experience.
• An article, paper, or other composition (excluding letters, lesson plans, and memos) that is an example of the applicant’s best writing.
• For students whose first language is other than English, scores on the TOEFL of at least 590 for the Department of Teaching & Leadership; 600 for the TESL program or equivalent evidence of satisfactory English proficiency (Such equivalency is a degree from an accredited American university). (This must be submitted in addition to the above documents.) Passing score if taken by computer is 230 with 23 in sub-scales.

Upon admission to a doctoral program in the T&L component of the T&L department, a student is assigned an advisor whose research is related to the student’s area of research interest. That advisor will assist the student in planning a program of study.

On-campus employment opportunities and other sources of support are becoming more difficult to find. Opportunities are available, however, if you know when and where to start looking. Resources within the T&L department are limited, but many students find work in other areas oinside and outside of the university. The program makes every effort to assure that our students receive some financial support during their tenure program.

Office of University Registrar, 121 Strong Hall, 864-4422

If you are coming to KU from out-of-state, tuition will be a major expense. Those who intent to remain in Kansas indefnitly may apply for residency after one year. Check with the Registrar's office for requirements on voter registration and so forth. Especially important to remember is that you must not receive financial support from out-of-state resources (i.e. guaranteed student loans, support from parent, etc.) during this period. If you will be borrowing money, contact the Financial Aid Office or website: http://www.ukans.edu/~osfa/ on how to do this through a Kansas bank.

Office of Student Financial Aid

50 Strong Hall, 864-4700; ofsa@ku.edu

This is the office to contact for scholarship and stuent loan information. They can give you a list of Kansas's banks that participate in the state guaranteed sloan program. Also, a listing of availale hourly jobs is kept here. The deadline to apply for work-study is March 1.

A limited number of fellowships are awarded by the Graduate School. These include a Minority Student Fellowship and a Dissertation Fellowship. Information on these awards is available in January.

Fee waivers and reduction are available to university staff who full-time. This is a significant advantage of on-campus employment. There are additional reductions for those on teaching assistantships.

Graduate Assistantships: The best time to start checking on graduate assistantships is in the spring. Contact the department(s) in which you are interested.

In addition to several teaching assistantships, various faculty members will have research grants on occasion that will support research assistants.

The Financial Aid office is the clearinghouse for information on student hourly jobs. These jobs will not get you a fee reduction. If you are interested, start contacting departments in Early august. The University library system regularly hires students. Generally, you must be on work-study to qualify for student hourly but it is not an absolute requirement.

The Financial Aid Office has listings for part-time employment off-campus.

When students seek employment, whether it be for part-time or for full-time employment, the resources of the University Placement Center, the Career Resource Center, and department faculty are at their disposal. While faculty are typically the best resources for informal "network" contacts, the Placement Center does have information on specific openings, and will work with students to plan their job hunt. They will also work with students who wish to improve their interviewing skills by videotaping and reviewing a mock interview session. The Career Resource Center keeps a binder of current and past job openings for persons in the area of Curriculum and Instruction.

Before a student accumulates 12 credit hours a Program Committee is selected to oversee the student’s program. The committee consists of a minimum of three Graduate Faculty members and chaired by the student’s advisor. A T&L Graduate Faculty member who holds the right to chair doctoral dissertations is appointed during the student’s first semester of enrollment as a doctoral student. When a minor area(s) is part of the doctoral program, a Graduate Faculty member from the minor area is included on the advisory committee. All members must have graduate appointments.

Students admitted to doctoral programs in the School of Education are required to file with the Graduate Office a program of study leading to the doctoral degree, signed by all members of the student’s advisory committee, before completion of one year post Master’s enrollment or 12 credit hours of doctoral work have been completed (whichever comes first). This includes pre-aspirancy as well as aspirancy status doctoral students. A program plan may be changed with the approval of the Program Committee. A Do-all (an official form that can be found in the T&L office or in the Records office) must be filed to document this change. A student’s advisor and committee can be changed, if necessary, during the program at the request of any of the concerned parties (see Appendix E).

Appropriate courses completed in a student’s master’s degree may be used to satisfy requirements in the minor or in the program upon approval of the student’s Program Committee. The student must complete doctoral graduate hours to complete the doctoral program. Careful consideration should be given to the selection of previously completed courses as part of the program, because the comprehensive examination will include questions from current faculty representing that work.

The student must spend the equivalent of three academic years, including the time spent in attaining the master’s degree, in resident study at this or some other university. For Ph.D. students, two consecutive semesters (which may include one summer session) subsequent to the first year of graduate study, must be spent in resident study at the University of Kansas. During this residency the student must be involved full-time in academic pursuits, which may include up to half-time teaching or research (or a greater amount of research under special provisions.) (See Residency Agreement, Appendix A). Ed.D students complete a Period of Continuous study (that is, a period of time where the student is enrolled in at least 6 hours of coursework).

Students completing 12 hours without having a doctoral program on file are not permitted to enroll until a program has been filed.

Students must select and demonstrate competence in two research skills (see below) approved by their committee, to fulfill the research requirement. Students request approval of these skills by submitting a "plan for…form (Appendix B) at the meeting of the student’s Program Committee. The form includes a summary of the research skills selection, a rationale for the choice, and the designated faculty member from the Program Committee who will evaluate proficiency of the selected research skills. If a committee member is unable to be present for the meeting, the student obtains written feedback from the member(s) about their selections. After the plan is approved by all Program Committee members, the student will give a copy of the form to the Records Office where it will be placed in the student’s record. Any subsequent changes in plans need to be approved by all members of the student’s Program Committee.

As the student completes requirements for non-course research skills, the designated program committee member signs to verify proficiency. When all research skills are completed, the student gives the completed form to the Program Committee Chair who will file the form in the student’s record and sign the research competency section of the Do-All form. The research requirement must be completed before the student takes comprehensive exams.

The student must demonstrate mastery of basic research skills by successfully completing

• One course in methods of research.
• One course in statistics
• One additional course elected from statistics, research design, measurement, or computer science.

Note: Courses taken to fulfill #1 of the core requirement for all doctoral students may also count toward this requirement.

The student will demonstrate applied research skills by successful completion of two of the following five categories:

• Successfully complete a computer language course. Example: a course in BASIC.
• Successfully complete an advanced statistics course in addition to the ones required.
• Demonstrate the ability to read, write, or speak a foreign language (non-English). Students whose native language is not English may use their native language to fulfill the language requirement only if the language is considered an adequate research tool for their program. Consult the Graduate School Catalog for details on how to meet this research skill.
• Demonstrate proficiency in performing specialized techniques for a complex procedure. Example: essay preparation, animal surgical procedures, or measurement of complicated physiological parameters.
• Successfully complete PRE 980, or a comparable course, or using a raw data set, demonstrate knowledge of a statistical package such as SPSS or SAS by cleaning data, and successfully running five sub-programs.
• Successfully complete an advanced research methods course in addition to the ones required.
• Demonstrate proficiency in performing qualitative analysis by successfully running programs such as NUDIST.

Doctoral students must have on their graduate record the following core coursework:

• One course in statistics or research.
• One course in human learning or development.
• One course in the history or philosophy of education.
• One course in general curriculum (T&L 842 or 843).
• One course in general instruction (T&L 840, 844, or 941).
• One seminar in Trends and Issues in Curriculum and Instruction (T&L 998).

All course requirements for the doctoral program must be completed prior to the scheduling of the comprehensive examination.

The specific contents of a particular student’s program are determined cooperatively by the student, the advisor, and the Program Committee. This is outlined in a Program of Study (See Appendix F). A student’s advisor and committee can be changed, if necessary, during the program at the request of any of the concerned parties (See Appendix E).

No more than eight years may elapse from the first enrollment in the doctoral program until the requirements for the degree have been completed. A student may petition the Graduate Division through the department for a leave of absence during either the pre- or post-comprehensive period to pursue full-time professional activities related to the student’s doctoral program and long-range professional goals. Leaves of absence may also be granted because of illness or other emergency. A leave of absence may be granted for one or, at most, two years.

When a doctoral aspirant completes the major portion of the courses at a level satisfactory to the department and school, and meets all other departmental, school, and university requirements prerequisite to the comprehensive oral examination, including the basic and applied research skills requirements for the program, the department requests that the School of Education Graduate Division schedule the comprehensive written and oral examinations. The minimum required advance notice time between such a request and the desired examination date is two weeks. The committee for the comprehensive written and oral examinations consists of at least five members, all of whom must be members of the Graduate Faculty. At least one of the members must be from a department other than the aspirant’s major department; ordinarily this member represents the student’s minor area for Ph.D. candidates. The examination is scheduled provided that no less than five months has elapsed from the time of the aspirant’s first enrollment at the University of Kansas.

The student selects a comprehensive examination committee chair who assists the student in the selection of the four remaining committee members. Usually the chair is the program committee advisor. This committee conducts both written and oral portions of the comprehensive examinations. The written and oral comprehensive examinations includes questions from the major area and the minor. A grade of "B" or better in each of the required statistics courses accepted as an indication of competence in the statistics content area of the curriculum. Therefore, students are not necessarily asked to add basic statistical issues in their written examination. The comprehensive examination committee will consist of five graduate faculty members, one of whom is outside the major area. This outside faculty member must be a regular graduate faculty member and serves as representative of the Graduate School. The major advisor and the student selects the committee member representing the minor. Written comprehensive examinations are scheduled three times a year on specified dates. Arrangements for the process is the responsibility of the Teaching and Leadership Office and the major professor. It is the student’s responsibility to initiate the Do-All with the School of Education Records Office. The written examination cannot be taken without an approved Do-All.

The comprehensive examination consists of both written and oral parts and covers the major and minor areas of study pursued by the student. The student passes the comprehensive examination if a majority of the official examining committee approves the student’s performance. A student who receives a grade of Unsatisfactory, may be allowed, upon the recommendation of the department, to repeat it, but it may not be taken more than three times. The student may not repeat the examination until at least 90 days have elapsed since the last unsuccessful attempt.

Doctoral students are required to pass both the written and oral components of the comprehensive examination. The written examination is held on specific dates announced each year by the Teaching and Leadership Department. The total writing time is 16 hours with 12 hours devoted to the major areas and 4 hours allotted to the minor.

Options for written comprehensive examinations in the minor area (to be arranged by the comprehensive examination/program committee chair of the student):

• The minor advisor writes the questions to be administered during the week of written comprehensive examinations, establishes grading criteria, and grades the questions.
• Prior to written examinations, the student presents a completed paper to the minor advisor who is responsible for grading the paper by the same deadline as the written comprehensive questions. The topic of the paper is related to the student’s area of research and the minor advisor and student determines the focus.

The written comprehensive examination taken by doctoral students in the School of Education focus, on two areas: (1) the student’s major area of study and (2) the student’s minor area of study where required. Responses to questions in the major and minor areas are evaluated by all members of the student’s comprehensive examining committee. [If a student fails either major or minor portions of the written comprehensives] The examining committee determines whether the entire written portion of the exam or only the failed portion(s) need to be retaken (no sooner than the next scheduled examination period). In order to pass the written portion of the comprehensive exam, the student must be evaluated as having satisfactorily completed questions in both the major area and the minor area (when minor area is required).

Students in doctoral programs in the School of Education must pass both the written and oral components of the comprehensive examination. Satisfactory performance on the written examination must be attained before the oral examination is attempted. To fail either component is to fail the exam.

If a student passes the written component but fails the oral, the examining committee determines if both components or only the oral need be repeated (after the minimal 90-day interim period). The grade on the comprehensive oral examination will be "Honors," "Satisfactory," or "Unsatisfactory."

A student may enroll for dissertation hours during the semester in which the examination is taken. If the student fails, the dissertation hours will not be counted toward degree requirements.

The duration of the entire written comprehensive examination is at least 16 hours. The written comprehensive examination for doctoral students in education is taken during any of three regularly scheduled periods. These times are announced each year by the School of Education Graduate Office and will approximately conform to:

Fall semester 2^nd week of October*

Spring semester 3^rd week of February

Summer session 2^nd week of June

The purpose of the oral comprehensive examination is to clarify and expound on aspects of written comprehensive examinations and to demonstrate the student’s ability to articulate the integration of knowledge.

Satisfactory performance on the written examination must be attained before the oral examination may be attempted. Failing either component is to fail the comprehensive exam. The written comprehensive examination for doctoral students is taken during any of three regularly scheduled periods, which will be announced each year by the T&L Department. A student is advised to check with the T&L office for the exact examination dates and time schedules. Scheduling the oral examination occurs after notification of passing the written exam. This should be scheduled within 30 days of that notification. This examination usually lasts 2 hours and all five committee members should be present. The Doctoral Graduation Checklist (Appendix C) must be completed in a timely manner. No written or oral comprehensive examinations will be conducted unless the Do-All has been completed two weeks prior to the scheduled date. (For further details, see Guidelines for Comprehensive Examinations, Appendix D.)

After passing the comprehensive oral examination for a doctoral degree, the candidate must be continuously enrolled, including summer sessions, until all requirements for the degree are completed. Enrollment must reflect as accurately as possible the candidate’s demands on faculty time and university facilities. During this time, until all requirements for the degree have been completed or until 18 post-comprehensive hours have been completed (whichever comes first), the candidate must enroll for a minimum of 6 hours a semester and 3 credits in summer session. If, after 18 hours of post-comprehensive enrollment, the degree is not completed, the candidate must continue to enroll each fall and spring semester until all degree requirements have been met.

The dissertation committee shall consist of at least five members and may include members from other departments and/or, on occasion, members from outside the university. The Dissertation Committee can be the same committee as the Program Committee, however, students can vary the membership of the Dissertation Committee with the approval of the student’s dissertation chair. (All members of the committee must be chosen from the Graduate Faculty, and the chairperson must, in addition, be authorized to chair doctoral dissertations.) Those members of the committee from outside the University must have an ad hoc Graduate Faculty appointment. The School of Education Records Office should be contacted regarding the appointment of faculty members from other institutions to the committee.

Upon passing the comprehensive oral examination, the aspirant becomes a candidate for the doctorate. The Graduate Division of the School of Education designates the candidate’s dissertation committee at this time, based on the recommendations of the candidate’s major department.

A prospective member of the committee from outside the university must gain approval as an ad hoc member of the Graduate Faculty prior to appointment to the committee. The dissertation proposal is to be read by all members of the dissertation committee. Work on the dissertation can be continued only after the proposal has been approved by the dissertation committee. One copy of the approved dissertation proposal, signed by all members of the dissertation committee, is submitted (with a Do-All form) to the School of Education Graduate Office for subsequent deposit in the Curriculum Laboratory.

After passing the comprehensive examination, the aspirant becomes a candidate and must be continuously enrolled including summer sessions until the degree is completed. This enrollment should accurately reflect the candidate’s demands on faculty time and university facilities. Students are expected to earn 24 dissertation hours with a minimum of 18 hours in post-comprehensive enrollments. This time span may include the hours taken during the period in which the comprehensive examination was passed.

A student should be continuously enrolled until the degree is completed or until 18 post-comprehensive hours have been completed (whichever comes first). The student enrolls for a minimum of six hours a semester and three hours a summer session. If, after completing 18 hours of post-comprehensive enrollment, the degree is not completed, the student must continue to enroll for the amount of credit which best reflects his or her demands on University resources each semester and each summer session until the final oral examination is passed. Post-comprehensive enrollment must include enrollment during the semester or summer session in which the comprehensive examination has been passed. Under extraordinary conditions, the candidate may petition the School of Education Graduate Division for a leave of absence during the period between the comprehensive examination and the final oral examination.

The dissertation proposal must be written and approved before research begins. The dissertation proposal is read by all members of the dissertation committee. Work on the dissertation can be continued only after the proposal has been approved by the dissertation committee. Three copies of the approved dissertation proposal, signed by the chairperson and two members of the student’s dissertation committee, must be submitted to the School of Education Records Office for review prior to submission to the University of Kansas Academic Committee for Human Experimentation (ACHE)for approval. Once the dissertation proposal is approved by the school committee, the candidate must receive ACHE approval before proceeding with their research. A copy of the ACHE Research Guidelines should be obtained from the School of Education Records Office. This office also distributes the Instructions to Candidates for Doctoral Degrees.

The candidate must complete a dissertation showing the results of original research. The minimum number of credit hours required for dissertation enrollment is 18 hours. Instructions regarding the proper form of the dissertation may be obtained from the Graduate Office of the School of Education. Prior to final dissertation defense, students should obtain copies of Microfilm Agreement and Survey of Earned Doctorate forms from the School of Education Records Office, 210 JR Pearson. These forms must be turned in with the completed dissertation.

When the dissertation has been tentatively accepted by the dissertation committee, but before it has been bound, the chairperson of the dissertation committee shall request the Graduate Division to schedule the final oral examination. This request must be made at least two weeks in advance of the desired examination and the date of the final oral examination. The committee for the final oral examination consists of at least five members (the members of the dissertation committee and/or the department and approved by the Graduate Division). Upon approval of the request, the final oral examination is scheduled at the time and place designated in the request and this information is published in a University news medium as prescribed by the Graduate Faculty; interested members of the University community are encouraged to attend these examinations. If the candidate fails the final oral examination and dissertation defense, the examination and defense may be repeated upon the recommendation of the dissertation committee. (Several requirements, including completion of the Do-All form three weeks before the oral examination and defense, need to be met for eligibility to take the final oral examination and dissertation defense—please see Appendix C, Doctoral Graduation Checklist. The final oral examination and dissertation defense cannot be conducted without an approved Do-All.)

Approval by a representative from the School of Education Graduate Office, 210 JR Pearson, is required before the student can submit the dissertation to the Registrar’s Office. An abbreviated listing of the requirements follows:

--Only white paper without a patterned background that is 8 1/2 x 11 inches will be accepted.

--Paper must be at least a pound bond with a rag content of 25%

--Margins must be at least 1 1/2 inches on the left and 1 1/4 inches on the top, right, and bottom.

--Number the pages 3/4 inch down from the top or 3/4 inch up from the bottom.

--Do not use aerosol spray glues, cellophane tape, or rubber cement.

--Original signatures are required on each of the title pages submitted.

--The abstract must not exceed 350 words.

Complete instructions are available from the School of Education Graduate Office. For further information, please contact Mary Ann Williams, 864-4510.

When the final oral examination and dissertation defense are completed successfully and the members of the dissertation committee have signed the dissertation, one bound copy is to be deposited in the School of Education Records Office. Two unbound copies with original signatures, and a binding fee of $25.00, payable to the University of Kansas, are deposited in the Registrar’s Office before the deadline established by the Graduate School In addition, the student must submit an abstract of the dissertation (350 words or less) and title page to both the School of Education Records Office and the Registrar’s Office, along with the $55.00 fee for microfilming by Dissertation Abstracts. If the student wishes to copyright the dissertation, an additional fee of $35.00 is collected.

It is recommended that doctoral students have in their possession a Graduate Catalog effective for the year in which study is begun. All requirements of the Graduate School for the Ph.D. degree are included in the Graduate Catalog (available from the Bookstore). The Graduate Catalog and University Timetable contain valuable information governing all aspects of the graduate programs at the University of Kansas. The School of Education policies related to student’s rights and responsibilities are those printed in the University of Kansas Timetable. All students should review the content of this publication.

For a student who enters graduate studies with a master’s degree, no more than eight years may elapse from the first enrollment until the requirements for the degree have been completed. A student may petition the Graduate School, through the School of Education, for a leave of absence (LOA) during either the pre-comprehensive or post-comprehensive period. LOAs are usually granted for one year or less based upon unexpected or uncontrollable events in the student’s life. The time granted for a student LOA is not calculated into the eight-year program time limit.

Student requests for change of advisor or committee member are initiated using the Change of Advisor and/or Committee Member Form (Appendix E). This form is then forwarded to the Associate Dean of Graduate Studies for final review and approval.

For doctoral students for whom English is not the native language, the Test of Spoken English (TSE) or Applied English Center (AEC) courses must be taken and passed before the student can take the comprehensive examinations. If the student fails the English examination or courses, the test or courses must be repeated until successfully passed.

Consult the University of Kansas Graduate Catalog for additional requirements affecting the Ed.D or Ph.D doctoral degrees.

Check the two research skills to be completed and briefly summarize your rationale for their selection.

____1. Successfully complete a computer language course. Example: a course in BASIC

Rationale:

____2. Successfully complete an advanced statistic course in addition to the ones required.

Rationale:

____3. Demonstrate the ability to read, write, or speak a foreign language (non-English). Students whose native language is not English may use their native language to fulfill the language requirement only if the language is considered an adequate research tool for their program. Consult the Graduate School Catalog for details on how to meet this research skill.

Rationale:

____4. Demonstrate proficiency in performing specialized techniques for a complex procedure.

Example: assay preparation, animal surgical procedures, or measurement of complicated

Physiological parameters.

Designated Program Committee Member to verify Proficiency:______________

Rationale:

I verify that __________________________ has completed this research skill.

__________________________________ __________________

Signature of Person Verifying Proficiency Date

____5. Successfully complete PRE 980, Computer Applications in Statistics, or a comparable

course, or using a raw data set demonstrate knowledge of a statistical package such as

SPSS or SAS by cleaning up the data, and successfully running five sub-programs.

Course or designated Program Committee Member who will verify proficiency of

Non-course option:________________________________

Rationale:

I verify that _________________________has met this research skill.

__________________________________ ____________________

Signature of Person verifying Proficiency Date

____6. Successfully complete an advanced research methods course in addition to the ones required.

Course:

Rationale:

Designated Program Committee Member to verify proficiency: ______________

I verify that _____________________________has met this research skill.

__________________________________ ______________________

Signature of Person verifying Proficiency Date

____7. Demonstrate proficiency in performing qualitative analysis by successfully running such programs as NUDIST.

Rationale:

Designated Program Committee Member to verify proficiency: _____________

I verify that ____________________________has met this research skill.

__________________________________ ____________________

Signature of Person verifying Proficiency Date

1. The Chair of the student’s comprehensive examination committee will forward a letter to all committee members confirming the time and date of examination and requesting that questions be sent to the chair or the Office of Academic Affairs at least one week prior to the written examination. The chair will confirm that the Department of Teaching & Leadership has received all questions by Wednesday of the week before the written exam is scheduled.
2. The Teaching and Leadership Office will assume responsibility for scheduling the room for the examination and monitoring the exam. The answers must be written in ink on white paper or on a computer (by previous arrangements with the Department of Teaching & Leadership).
3. Do-All Forms must be requested at least three weeks prior to the written comprehensive from the School of Education Records Office. The Do-All, approved by Dr. Mahlios, Chair of Teaching & Leadership, must be in the comprehensive committee chair’s possession at the time of the written comprehensive. Upon receipt of the Do-All, the chair must notify the School of Education Records Office for the examination to proceed.
4. Oral examinations may be scheduled tentatively by the student not less than two weeks and not more than 6 weeks following the written examination.
5. The Committee Chair will forward all answers to the Comprehensive Examination questions to the appropriate faculty members for grading.
6. Two weeks (from the date of the written examination) is allowed for faculty to grade the examination and contact the committee chair with a Pass/Fail grade.
7. The committee chair will notify the student in writing of the results of the written examination. A copy of this letter should be forwarded to the School of Education Records Office.
8. If all parts of the Comprehensive Written Examination have been completed satisfactorily, the oral examination will be conducted as scheduled.
9. If a student has failed one or more parts of the written examination, the tentative oral examination will be canceled and a second written examination will be scheduled to cover areas in which a failing grade was received.
10. A minimum of 90 days is required between the initial written examination and the repeat examination. The date of the first day of the written examination will be used to determine the 90-day period required prior to the retest date.
11. If all or any single area of the comprehensive examination is taken unsuccessfully three times, the student is dismissed from the program.
12. Appendix G

Student’s KUID#: ___________________

The following change in the advisor/committee make-up is requested:

Advisor From _______________________ to _______________________

Committee Member From _______________________ to _______________________

From _______________________ to _______________________

From _______________________ to _______________________

Signature indicating approval by:

Student ______________________________________________

Present Advisor ______________________________________________

New Committee Member ______________________________________________

New Committee Member ______________________________________________

New Committee Member ______________________________________________

Approved by: _____________________________________ Date: ____________________

The Doctor of Education is a professional degree designed primarily for practitioners in the field of education. Therefore, when making application for admission as student for the degree, the student must present evidence of at least 18 months of successful experience in professional education.

Because Ed.D. programs emphasize preparation for high-level professional practice, the degree is awarded only upon the completion of three years of advanced work in both theory and practice of education. Candidates must complete a minimum of 48 semester hours above the master’s degree level or its equivalent at the University of Kansas. Credit for the dissertation may be included in these 48 semester hours. The actual number of hours required is determined by the student’s advisory committee. Candidates for the Doctor of Education degree do not specify a minor area of study.

After completion of course work and the comprehensive examination, the candidate must present a dissertation which involves research exhibiting the application of existing knowledge in the major field of professional study.

The student must plan a major area of study from courses offered in the Department of Teaching & Leadership. The major must contain a minimum of 40 semester hours of graduate work and may include appropriate work taken for the Master’s Degree or its equivalent. The 40 hours may include up to 24 hours earned for dissertation, although additional hours may be earned.

Before undertaking the written comprehensive examination the student must be enrolled and must present satisfactory evidence of competence in research skills, including both the basic research skills enumerated previously and one of the following applied research skills.

The student will demonstrate applied research skills by successfully completing one of the projects listed below. The student must, upon completion of the project, submit a written report of the results to the chairperson of his/her advisory committee.

• Use the computer center resources to solve a problem relating to curriculum or instruction. This will include selecting a problem, selecting or designing an appropriate computer program, and interpreting results.

• Develop, field test, and –when appropriate—revise curriculum materials utilizing current research findings from both subject matter and instruction.

• Complete a research project in instruction after completing a course dealing with research in instruction.

• Complete a field experience as an instructional leader in a school setting (T&L 995). This experience will involve the use of research findings in working with the school staff to solve curricular or instructional problems.

The student must meet the residence requirement through one of the following options:

• One full semester (12 hours minimum) and the adjacent summer session (8 hours minimum). This may be summer-fall, or spring-summer.

• Two part-time semesters (9 hours minimum) with appropriately related external employment (1/2 to 1/4 time), and a full summer session (8 hours minimum). The three terms of enrollment should be consecutive.

• Part-time enrollment for two summer (consecutive) sessions (5 hours minimum) and the two intervening semesters (9 hours minimum) with appropriately related external employment (1/2 to 1/4 time).

• Two semesters, normally consecutive and excluding summer sessions. During this period the student must be involved in full-time academic pursuits, which may include up to 1/2 time teaching or research. (This is also the Ph.D. residency requirement).

These residence requirements include the following stipulations:

• Only course work taken after the first year of graduate work, that is, after the master’s degree or its equivalent, may satisfy the residency requirements.

• Dissertation hours, individual study, field experience, and off-campus practicum may not be included in the stated minimal requirements for options (A), (B), and (C) above.

• "Appropriately related employment," internal or external, must be approved by the student’s advisory committee.

• The student, with the assistance of the advisory committee, must file in the Graduate Division Office a residency plan (forms available) congruent with the School of Education requirements prior to the beginning of the formal residency period. This plan may be filed as a part of the student’s overall program plan. (See Appendix A.)

Minimal hour requirements for options (A), (B) and (C) above must be fulfilled with regularly scheduled course work on the Lawrence and Edwards campuses.

The Doctor of Philosophy degree is awarded for mastering a field of scholarship, for learning the methods of investigation appropriate to that field and for completing original research.

Although the courses and the research leading to the Ph.D. are necessarily specialized, the attainment of this degree should not be an isolated event in the enterprise of learning. The aspirant for the Ph.D. is expected to be a well-educated person with a broad sense of general knowledge, not only as preparation for more advanced work but also as a means of knowing how the chosen specialty is related to other fields of human thought.

As a means of giving depth and breadth to the doctoral program, the Department of Teaching & Leadership requires work in a minor field, or at least an articulated selection courses outside of the department.

See Program Committee information on page 2.

A program area must contain a minimum of 40 credit hours of course work and may include work completed for the master’s degree or its equivalent, provided it meets recency and relevancy criteria as determined by the advisory committee and the Graduate Division. Credit for the dissertation is part of the area. The minor must contain at least 12 hours of courses, and it should be related to and supportive of the area. Upon admission to doctoral study, students who have not completed a research and evaluation methods (PRE 715) course for the education master’s degree must take the course during the first doctoral enrollment. The course does not count toward any doctoral requirements.

• The student must plan a major area of study from courses offered in the Department of Teaching & Leadership. The major must contain a minimum of 40 semester hours and may include appropriate work taken for the Master’s degree or its equivalent. The 40 hours may include up to 24 hours earned for dissertation, although additional dissertation hours may be earned.

• The Ph.D. student must choose a minor to be completed in a department or departments of the University outside of the department. The minor must consist of at least 12 hours of course work beyond the Master’s degree planned with and approved by the student’s advisory committee. (Ed.D. students do not have the same requirement.)

• The student must complete an appropriate experience in college level teaching which includes enrollment in T&L 996. The experience must be approved by the student’s advisory committee. (The description of T&L 996, as approved by the School Assembly, follows: To meet the College Teaching Requirement for doctoral programs, a student will engage in a semester-long, planned, instructional activity that includes college classroom teaching under supervision. Planning is done with the advisor and/or a member of the faculty who will supervise the experience. The activity completed under the supervision of a member of the university of Kansas faculty or by an individual or individuals designated by the candidate’s committee.)

• Before being admitted to the comprehensive examination, the student must be enrolled and must present satisfactory evidence of competence in research skills, including the basic research skills enumerated previously and two of the following applied research skills.

• The student will demonstrate applied research skills by successful completion of two of the following five categories. See page 3.

The student must satisfactorily complete T&L 996 College Teaching Experience for 2 hours of credit. In this course, the candidate assists the professor for one semester. The course may be completed during the semester in which the student takes the comprehensive examination, but ordinarily it should be completed before admission to the comprehensive examination.

See page 3.