35.056 - Improvement Science: Enabling Scholarly Practitioners to Learn in and Through Educational Practice

Session Type: Workshop

Abstract

This workshop provides an opportunity to learn about innovative dissertations in Educational Doctorate programs (EdD) and ways to prepare professional practitioners to utilize improvement science as means to apply inquiry to improve practice. The workshop is sponsored by, and built on work of, the Carnegie Project on the Education Doctorate (CPED) a group who views improvement science methodology as a means to prepare practitioners to apply research to improve problems of practice. The workshop is designed for faculty or graduate students who are, or will be teaching, in EdD programs. Participants will learn the need for distinct training, improvement science as a frame for EdD dissertations, the research skills necessary for this work, and standards of rigor and quality.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Graduate and Postdoctoral Education across the Disciplines

Chair

• Jill Alexa Perry, University of Pittsburgh

Participants

• Debby M. Zambo, Carnegie Project on the Education Docorate

• Robert Kelly Crow, Western Carolina University