(This page was last
updated on 12/16/2009)
Educational Leadership Doctoral Program
Program Description
The Doctor of Education Degree (Ed.D.) in educational leadership
is a professional degree offered by TAMUK designed to provide leaders throughout
the state at all educational levels. The program requires courses emphasizing
leadership in the areas of educational theory, philosophy, policy, innovations,
and research. The overarching goal of the program is for the student to develop
a style of thinking, feeling, and behaving that centers on knowledge of
professional literature, a respect for data of various kinds, careful,
reflective and constructive reasoning, effective leadership behavior, and an
overall leadership vision.
Program Features
The program features course work, a dissertation, and a cohort
structure designed to promote peer support and interaction. The 69-hour program
includes required core coursework, while also allowing for a cognate or
professional support field. The cognate includes 18 hours of courses with which
students may pursue certifications or hours toward higher education teaching
expertise. For example, students may concurrently acquire the principal and/or
superintendent certification in the doctoral program. Additionally, students may
select two free elective courses to enhance their desired areas of professional
knowledge.
Timeline for Applications
Deadline for Applications February 1st
Initial Application Screening February
Interviews of Prospective Cohorts March
Notification Early
April
Orientation and Induction Late April/Early
May
Courses Begin June (SSI)
Duration of Coursework Approximately 3 years
Factors
Considered for Admission
Educational and Professional Backgrounds
GRE Scores
Undergraduate and Graduate Transcripts
Letters of Recommendation
Two-page Statement
One-page Summary
If Selected for Interview:
Professional Portfolio
Personal Interview
Writing Sample
Letter of Commitment (Completed after selection for Program)
Applications for the EDLD Program (must complete both):
Instructions
for Applying for Admission (Main EDLD Application)
http://www.applytexas.org
(General University Application -
Be sure to select EDLD (doctoral) beginning in summer 2010.)
For More Information:
Department of Educational Leadership & Counseling
Texas A&M University-Kingsville
700 University Blvd., MSC 223
Kingsville, TX 78363
361.593.2430
http://education.tamuk.edu
EDLD Degree Plan:
EDLD DEGREE PLAN_2009.doc
INFORMATION FOR CURRENT EDLD STUDENTS:
Current Announcements
Dear Soon-to-Be Doctoral
Graduates,
We would like to invite you
and your families to attend a
Hooding Ceremony in your
honor.
The ceremony will take place
on
Friday December 18th
at 2:30pm, in Rhode Hall Room 122.
Refreshments will be served.
TO ALL
CANDIDATES FOR WINTER 2009 GRADUATION:
-
General Plan. The Fall 2009 Commencement exercises will be held in
the Steinke Physical Education Center on Friday, December 18, 2009. There
will be TWO ceremonies. One will be at 4:00 p.m. and the other at 7:00
p.m. Seating will be reserved for degree candidates and faculty; seating
of all guests, however, will be on an unreserved, first-come, first-serve
basis.
4:00 p.m.
**Education**
Engineering
University College
7:00 p.m.
Agriculture,
Natural Resources and Human
Sciences
Arts and Sciences
Business Administration
-
Rehearsal
for Commencement. Candidates will assemble in the Steinke Physical
Education Center at 9:45 a.m., Friday, December 18, 2009. Further
instructions will be given at that time.
-
Caps and Gowns. Bachelor and master gowns may be purchased at the
Texas A&M University-Kingsville Bookstore during regular store hours. The
gowns will be in stock beginning October 16. Caps and gowns should be
purchased no later than 1 MONTH prior to graduation in order
to guarantee a proper fitting robe. If you need to purchase or rent a
doctoral gown, contact the Bookstore as soon as possible. These are made
specifically for the individual and therefore take extra time. PLEASE
MAKE SURE THAT YOU WEAR DARK COLORED SHOES, SOCKS, AND/OR NYLONS AND THAT
YOUR GOWN IS PRESSED PRIOR TO THE GRADUATION CEREMONY. If you have any
questions, please call 593-2601.
Fall 2009 - DISSERTATION PROPOSALS and DEFENSES:
8/31/09 - 11:30am - Carolina
G. Perez (Rhode 123)
The Achievement Impact of an Early Literacy Intervention Program for First Grade
Students
PROPOSAL
10/16/09 - 10:30am - Fred R.
Guerra, Jr. (Rhode 104)
Teacher Knowledge of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder among Middle
School Students in South Texas
DEFENSE
11/3/09 - 2:30pm - Maria
Hinojosa (Rhode 105)
A Comparison of Open Enrollment Charter Schools and Traditional Public Schools
in a Texas Region
DEFENSE
11/4/09 - 8:30am - Ada
Besinaiz (Rhode 100A)
Experiences and Perceptions of Special Education Directors Regarding the Due
Process Hearing System in the State of Texas
DEFENSE
11/4/09 - 10:30am - Linda
Zamarripa (Rhode 100A)
Factors Affecting Student Achievement in Mathematics in Select Texas High
Schools
DEFENSE
12/15/09 - 1:00pm - Judith E. Cox (Rhode 100A)
Qualifying Emotional Intelligence in Relationships: The Validation of the
Relationship Skills Map
DEFENSE
12/16/09 - 11:30am - Carolina
G. Perez (Rhode 122)
The Achievement Impact of an Early Literacy Intervention Program for First Grade
Students
DEFENSE
12/16/09
- 1:00pm - Pablo Martinez (Rhode 100A)
The Impact of a Ninety Minute Math Block Schedule on the Academic Achievement of
Middle School Students
DEFENSE
EXCELLENT COURSE FOR SPRING--Elective or Cognate for EDLD
Students!
Course: EDLD 6323 and EDCG 5320 - Leadership
Excellence: Infusing Emotional Intelligence for Developing People,
Organizations, and Communities.
Rationale:
From trait and contingency models to servant leadership, there are many ways
to think about the roles of leaders, followers, the pursuit of vision. The
student will choose a setting or area of concentration and then develop and
evaluate a theory of emotional intelligence (EI) leadership for that setting.
A goal for the course is to learn and apply a leadership approach for
developing people, organizations, and communities. As a hybrid course,
meetings will be approximately half online and half face-to-face.
Books:
The Leader
in Me (Covey, 2008)
Primal
Leadership (Goleman)
Fuelling
Success (Sen, Nelson, & Surya, 2009) (Provided by the instructor)
The 7th Annual
Institute for Emotional Intelligence
February 22-26, 2010 - San Antonio, Texas
The Institute for Emotional Intelligence (EI) is a self-sustaining education
initiative whose mission is to promote and facilitate the exchange of
applications, best practices, and the latest research connected with the
education-based theory of EI. The annual conference provides a comfortable and
relaxed self-directed facilitated learning environment through classroom
sessions, poster displays, and numerous networking opportunities in the areas of
K-12 Education, Higher Education, Business & Government, and Healthcare. As
practitioners and researchers in these demanding and constantly changing areas,
we are challenged to learn from one another about using EI to develop cultures
of teaching, leadership, service, and organizational excellence. For more
information please visit
here.
Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association,
Sixth Edition
Corrections to First Printing (July 2009)
The following are corrections to the first printing of the
manual in July 2009. They have been divided into four categories. Please note
that the Publication Manual contains 188 style rules and 980 examples to
illustrate those rules.
See:
http://supp.apa.org/style/pubman-reprint-corrections-for-2e.pdf
1. Errors in APA Style Rules
2. Errors in Examples
3. Clarifications
4. Nonsignificant Typos
*ALL EDLD
Students: Please Download the DEGREE PLAN, fill in all the
information (dates you've taken classes or dates you plan on taking classes,
grades, etc.) and email it to us to place in your file. Please do this within
the first two weeks of the semester. We want your DEGREE PLANS updated each
semester.
EDLD Degree Plan:
Download, fill out, and
email to your advisor
*GRADUATING STUDENTS, WHEN
YOU GO TO THE GRADUATE OFFICE, YOU WILL NEED:
Turnitin report signed by your
committee chair, all the appropriate copies and signature pages and an
electronic copy of your dissertation. (see below)
*EDLD Policy: All students completing dissertations must also turn in their complete dissertation on a CD
or USB drive. The label on
the CD/USB drive must include your name, title of dissertation, and name of dissertation
Chair.
*ALSO, Effective Immediately:
With
recommendation by the Dean, College of Graduate Studies, concurrence and
support of the Graduate Council and unanimous vote of the Academic Dean’s
Council:
The following will be required for
graduate/doctoral students to complete requirements:
In addition to the current requirements, all
students requiring signature from the Dean, College of Graduate Studies must
submit their dissertation, thesis or project as described;
As well as
An electronic duplicate of the dissertation,
thesis or project, and
A Turnitin Report signed by the Chair of the
Committee with the date being no more than 3 days different from the Chair’s
signature date on the dissertation, thesis or project.
These new requirements will allow our graduate
products to become part of an electronic repository and give Chairs of Graduate
Committees more tools in their efforts to enhance the quality of our graduate
products.
*All EDLD 6398 students: you must enroll
each semester to comply with the policy of continuous enrollment. Please do so
each semester. Keep current with the EDLD 6398 Page (link to the left).
Use the 2008 Dissertation Guidelines. Request your GCR through EDLC admin. asst.
Lisa Chapa (kald000@tamuk.edu),
but only when your Chair give approval. For more information, see the EDLD 6398
Page.
*Students taking COMPS:
All information regarding COMPS is on the COMPS REVIEW page. (See link at upper
left)
*GRADUATION Deadlines:
December 18, 2009, Commencement --
Click Here
**LAST WEEK TO DEFEND - 1st week of November 2009
May 21, 2010, Commencement --
Click Here
**LAST WEEK TO DEFEND - 1st week of April 2010
http://www.tamuk.edu/grad/
ADDITIONAL FORMS AND
INFORMATION FOR EDLD STUDENTS:
***Certification Checklist for Principalship and Superintendency--These
are the courses you will need to complete for either of the certifications. This
form needs to be completed by your doctoral advisor and forwarded to the
Certification Office.
***Dissertation Guidelines_2008.doc--All the information you need to know about starting to
finishing your doctoral dissertation.
***Sample
APA-Formatted Tables--Here's a link to a Word document
with sample statistical tables in APA format
***New
IRB Form: Click-
IRB Example
http://www.tamuk.edu/grad/Revised_IRB_FEB07.pdf
Additional IRB info.: www.tamuk.edu
a. click on "Research" in right column
b. click on "Office of Research and Sponsored Programs"
c. click on "Human Subjects" in left column
http://www.hhs.gov/ohrp/humansubjects/guidance/decisioncharts.htm
***The IRB application should be filled out and
in your last appendix for the proposal. After a successful proposal you can turn
it in to your chair. For the defense, place only the IRB approval letter in the final
appendix.
Doctoral
Incentive Loan Repayment
http://www.hhloans.com/borrowers/DILRPFactSheet.cfm
U.S. Department of Education: ED
REVIEW
http://www.ed.gov/news/newsletters/edreview/index.html#credits
Information from the University to All Students
·
The Registrar’s Office, the
Business Office and other important offices on campus will only use the
student’s official TAMUK e-mail account for electronic communication. Please
remind your students that it is their responsibility to check this account for
important messages regarding registration, billing, financial aid, etc.
·
Please remind your students
to check their registration, financial aid and billing records periodically by
logging into the Blue and Gold Connection.
·
The Blue and Gold Connection
also allows students to enter or update their local address and phone number.
Please encourage your students to do so. This will ensure that important
retention efforts such as the 5-week grades mailer are successful.
Excellent resource
that gives district and regional
directories and emails for contact purposes on the TEA ask Ted website.
http://askted.tea.state.tx.us/
EDLD Class Schedules
FALL 2009
Class Schedule
Cohort XVIII
EDLD 6333 -
Statistical Reasoning, Wed 4:30pm-7:00pm (Dr. Brown)
Rhode Hall 105
EDLD 6324 - Curriculum
Theory, Wed 7:15pm-9:45pm (Dr. Maxwell)
Rhode Hall 105
Cohort XVII
EDLD 6335 -
Quantitative Research, Wed 4:30pm-7:00pm (Dr. Holland)
Rhode Hall 107
EDLD 6313
- Policy
Development and Decision Making, Wed 7:15pm-9:45pm (Dr. Hernandez)
Rhode Hall 107
Cohort XVI
EDLD 6398 / You
should PROPOSE by this semester
Please email the EDLC office your
updated degree plan
*ALL EDLD Early classes: 4:30-5:00pm for
individual instruction.
Full-group instructional time begins at 5:00pm*
Tentative SPRING 2010 Schedule
Cohort XVIII
EDLD 6392 -
Advanced Statistical Methods, Wed
4:30pm-7:15pm (TBA)
EDLD 6334 - Qualitative
Research Methods, Wed 7:30pm-10:15pm (TBA)
Cohort XVII
EDLD 6331 -
Educational Innovations, Wed 4:30pm-7:15pm -hybrid online (TBA)
EDLD 6397 -
Dissertation Research, Wed 7:30pm-10:15pm -hybrid online (TBA)
Cohort XVI
EDLD 6398 / you
should PROPOSE/DEFEND this semester
Please email us your
updated DEGREE PLAN
Possible Electives or Cognate Courses
EDLD 6326 -
Curriculum/Program Planning and Evaluation in Higher Education, Online
EDCG 6301 - Emotional
Intelligence, Thurs 6:00pm-8:50pm
*ALL EDLD Early classes: 4:30-5:00pm for
individual instruction.
Full-group instructional time begins at 5:00pm*
(Past)
SUMMER I
2009 Schedule
6/8/09 - 7/3/09
EDLD 6312 - Clinical
Leadership Laboratory, Mon & Wed 5:00pm-9:50pm
EDLD 6311
- Theories of Educational Leadership, Tues & Thurs
5:00pm-9:50pm
EDLD 6303 - The Politics
of Education
ONLINE CLASS
EDLD 6315
- Multicultural Analysis
ONLINE CLASS
SUMMER II 2009
Schedule
7/6/09 - 7/31/09
EDLD 6301 - Philosophy of
Education
ONLINE CLASS
EDLD 6322 - Analysis of
Learning Environments
EXCELLENT WEBSITES GIVING DEFINITIONS AND DATA
Glossaries of
terms:
http://www.utexas.edu/academic/diia/assessment/iar/resources/glossary/index.php
http://www.rtc.pdx.edu/pgGlossaryOfResearch.shtml
http://www.bath.ac.uk/e-learning/gold/glossary.html
http://www.resmind.swap.ac.uk/content/00_other/glossary.htm
http://changingminds.org/explanations/research/research_glossary.htm
http://webapp.icpsr.umich.edu/cocoon/ICPSR-FAQ/0034.xml
http://www.cas.lancs.ac.uk/glossary_v1.1/main.html
http://bitbucket.icaap.org/
This is the NSF
list of databases:
http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/database.cfm
This one is more
focused on grant administration:
http://www.research.ucla.edu/ocga/sr2/gloss.htm
(1/16/2007)
To Purchase SPSS software ($35 for
students) through the A&M System:
http://sellsoftware.tamu.edu/studentorderform.html
Website for TAMU Computing and Information Services:
http://sellsoftware.tamu.edu/
