Theory to practice in administrator preparation: an evaluation study

Update Item Information
Publication Type Journal Article
School or College College of Education
Department Educational Leadership and Policy
Creator Pounder, Diana G.
Title Theory to practice in administrator preparation: an evaluation study
Date 1995
Description The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the effectiveness of a field-based doctoral program in educational administration on linking theory and research to the improvement of practice. Specifically, the study evaluates the degree and ways in which doctoral student field-based projects and studies completed as an integral part of the University of Utah's field-based Ed.D. program have resulted in program or policy changes in schools or other education-related agencies. This evaluation of the theory-practice emphasis in the University of Utah's Ed.D. program suggests that the program is successfully meeting its central program objective. Study data indicate that approximately one-half to two-thirds of student projects resulted in some sort of policy or program change in educational practice. Projects that resulted in change in local schools, districts or other education-related agencies tended to be either policy adoptions addressing legal and/or personnel administration concerns or instructional program implementations for students and staff. Factors that enhanced the likelihood of a project resulting in a policy or program change were: 1} the student's familiarity with relevant problems of practice; 2) the degree to which students worked closely with other organizational employees in developing and refining the project; and 3) the utility and conceptual/analytical quality of the proposal itself.
Type Text
Publisher R & L Education
Volume 5
Issue 2
First Page 151
Last Page 162
Subject Educational administration; Doctoral programs; Theory-practice programs
Subject LCSH School management and organization; Doctoral students
Language eng
Bibliographic Citation Pounder, D. G. (1995). Theory to practice in administrator preparation: an evaluation study. Journal of School Leadership, 5(2), 151-62.
Rights Management (c) R & L Education. This material is still protected by copyright. All rights reserved. Please contact the publisher for permission to copy, distribute or reprint.
Format Medium application/pdf
Format Extent 409,306 Bytes
Identifier ir-main,1380
ARK ark:/87278/s6765zdm
Setname ir_uspace
ID 702495
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6765zdm
Back to Search Results