Offering state-of-the-art programs for preparing education practitioners in a critical component of the Margaret Warner Graduate School of Education and Human Development's mission to prepare knowledgeable and capable practitioners, as well as Warner's efforts to improve the quality of education in schools.

Using "best practices" in decision making, the Warner School revised its doctoral programs in educational leadership to help prepare school leaders with better decision-making skills. It is Warner's hope that as school leaders are well-prepared to make decisions, schools will become more effective and create better learning opportunities for students.

This radically new program, supported by the Wallace Foundation, includes new coursework and internships, as well as a capstone experience alternative to the traditional dissertation.

To learn more about the specific outcomes of the project and changes to the programs, choose from the links below:

Principal Investigator
Tyll van Geel
Chair and Professor, Educational Leadership

General
Overview and Lessons Learned
Dissertation Options
Internship-Project Requirements
Selected Annotated Bibliography on Decision Making
Annotated Bibliography on Program Evaluation

Syllabi (all documents in )
EDU 515 Administrative Decision-Making in Schools & Universities: Processes and Promises
This course is designed to improve the quality of educators’ decisions by presenting a practical framework that can be used to make better decisions.

EDU 516 Educational Decision Making II: Making Decisions in Schools and Universities
This course extends and builds upon Decision Making I in by exploring obstacles that lead decision makers away from using the preferred approach(es) discussed in Decision Making I and II.

ED 520 Introduction to Program Evaluation
This course examines how to assess the effectiveness of social programs, both in educational and other human service settings.

EDU 521 Advanced Program Evaluation
This course allows students to complete the data collection and analysis stages of a proposed and approved evaluation of an educational program (began in ED 520).