Date of Award
2004
Document Type
Dissertation
Degree Name
Doctor of Education
Department
EdD Program in Higher Education Leadership
Advisor
G. Jeremiah Ryan
Committee Member
Gail Johnson
Committee Member
Barbara Packer
Keywords
applied leadership, client institutions, course offerings, curriculum development, decision makers, educational effectiveness, educational institutions, educational quality, evaluation approaches, experiential learning, financial feasibility, financial profitability, formative committees, graduate programming, graduate-level organizational leadership program, internship-based learning, leadership education, literature review, Masters Programs, organizational leadership, outsourcing arrangements, PER, product development, program evaluation, summative committees, validated product
Abstract
PER designs and delivers experience based educational offerings through outsourcing arrangements with educational institutions. A design for a graduate-level organizational leadership program requested by two clients was not available. This study was undertaken to develop a program including curricular design, course offerings, an instrument for evaluating the financial feasibility of the program to client institutions, and an evaluation approach for monitoring the program’s educational quality.
The project, guided by six research questions, employed development and evaluation methodologies. Twenty five procedures, including a literature review, and use of formative and summative committees for provision of feedback were used. The result was the development of a graduate-level internship-based organizational leadership program including 21 credit hours of coursework, an instrument for evaluation of the financial profitability to client organizations of outsourcing the program to PER, and an evaluation approach for monitoring the program’s educational effectiveness.
The study concluded that the program should focus on applied leadership employing quality experience based educational approaches and should include evaluation approaches for assessing financial profitability and educational effectiveness. It was recommended that an infrastructure be developed, the study be disseminated to key clients, and the program be offered as part of PER’s portfolio of educational products. The validated product was presented to the PER director for graduate programming, and to decision makers at the intended client institutions.