EDU 688
Comprehensive Examination

EDU 688 Comprehensive Examination

2 Semester Units

Doctor of Education in Organizational Leadership candidates will complete a written Comprehensive Examination. This final requirement will be in the form of an essay examination, based upon major areas of education. Students are asked to integrate course information, professional experience and outside source materials into a comprehensive framework reflecting their accumulated knowledge in the field of education.

Objective

The exam is intended to test students’ knowledge related to the qualifying and core courses and area of specialization courses. Learners are expected to demonstrate comprehensive knowledge: facility with a wide range of texts and the ability to draw on main ideas of important thinkers and writers in their fields of study, linking them together in interesting and relevant ways to other scholars working in the field. In addition, students are expected to demonstrate depth of knowledge: the ability to engage, critically and substantively, with texts that both respect and interrogate the students’ claims, positions, and arguments. Finally, students are expected to demonstrate advanced academic skills, including (but not limited to) the ability to develop and sustain a line of argument that is coherent and supported with viable, text-based evidence, while writing clear scholarly prose.

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