Semester Milestones toward Completion of the Doctoral Study
for Students in Semester 6 or Beyond
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Semester 6&7 |
Semester 8 |
Semester 9 |
Additional Semesters |
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6th: EDUC 8030 or EDAD 8031 Proseminar: Teaching Leadership Beyond the School/Leading for Social Change 7th: EDUC/EDAD 8025 or 8035 Qualitative or Quantitative Research and 6& 7: EDUC/EDAD 8080 Doctoral Study Companion |
EDUC/EDAD 8090 Doctoral Study Intensive* |
EDUC/EDAD 8090 Doctoral Study Intensive |
EDUC/EDAD 8090 Doctoral Study Intensive |
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Students should keep several tasks moving along so that while they wait for approvals on one document they can edit another, work on the bibliography, etc.* Explore and use resources in 8080. Send prospectus, if you haven't already, to Faculty Chair for Research, fachairesearch@waldenu.edu. Doctoral study committee is appointed, based on prospectus. (Students who started earlier in the program selected their committee.) Establish contact with your doctoral study chair and committee member(s), if you haven't already, to develop the doctoral study proposal (draft sections/chapters 1, 2, and 3 of doctoral study). Continue literature review (ComP 3 and draft section 2 of doctoral study). Send proposal and all documents, when ready, to doctoralstudy@waldenu.edu unless noted otherwise. File application to conduct research with Institutional Review Board (IRB) before data collection. Chair schedules student's oral conference for the proposal. Committee chair submits consensus proposal rubric. Faculty Chair for Research reviews the proposal and proposes changes or approves.
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The student's IRB will be reviewed after the proposal is approved. Once the study is approved by the IRB, The student will receive an email approving collection of data. Complete data collection (draft section/chapter 4 of doctoral study).
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Complete data analysis. (Draft section/chapter 4 of doctoral study). Complete doctoral study draft. (sections/chapters 1–5). Doctoral committee reviews doctoral study and asks for changes or approves for oral.as well as informally approves for satisfactory form and style (by chair and/or Writing Center). Doctoral study submitted for Form & Style Review. Chair schedules and conducts oral doctoral study conference and student make committee's suggested changes. Doctoral committee approves changes and chair submits consensus rubric. Final review by Faculty Chair for Research. Provost reviews abstract and student revises abstract, if necessary. Submit doctoral study to UMI. |
Students continue in 8090 until doctoral study is approved.
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See next page for further clarifications:
*Things to keep in mind:
Students who have a timeline in mind for completion of their doctoral work can increase the chance of completing their work within that time frame by anticipating the factors that might slow down the process. Once a student leaves the course-based aspects of the program, there are many variables affecting progress through the program. They are often based upon the chosen research design and methodology. Here is a list of some of those variables:
1. Be prepared for the turnaround time of up to 10 working days on the part of your committee, the site administration, participants, the researcher, and IRB approval. To compensate for this reality, students are encouraged to have several parts of their work going at the same time. For instance, while the doctoral study is being read for form and style, the student can clean up the CV which is required as part of the final document.
2. Quantitative doctoral studies can take time for instrument development/validation or permission to use an existing instrument; time to schedule and administer the instrument (e.g. if the first administration of a survey does not yield adequate return, allow time for follow-up).
3. Qualitative doctoral studies can take time to gain access to the site; time to schedule and conduct interviews/observations (e.g. participants often wish to cancel or reschedule interviews/observation sessions); time to transcribe audio or video data; time to code data; and time for member checking, peer review or other validation procedure.
4. Making necessary changes to draft based on oral conference.
5. Data collected before IRB approval is disallowed and can not be used in the doctoral study.
These Milestones are based on the steps described in more detail in the Doctoral Study Guidebook. For your reference the academic calendar can be found at http://inside.waldenu.edu/c/Student_Faculty/StudentFaculty_595.htm
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