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Educational Leadership

EDAD 801 PHILOSOPHY AND HISTORICAL FOUNDATIONS OF
URBAN
Former course number 710 Prerequisites: None
Credits: 3
The purpose of the course is to analyze and study the philosophical and
historical foundations that underline leadership concepts and practices
in contemporary urban schools. Students explore the political, social,
and economic context in which urban schools operate. Students also
examine effective leadership and management strategies for urban
schools in eight key policy/management areas: finance,
personnel/employee relations, students performance, program
definition (curriculum and student services), facilities and security,
media (communications and community relations), and education law.

EDAD 810 DESCRIPTIVE AND INFERENTIAL STATISTICS IN
EDUCATION
Former course number 701 Prerequisites: None
Credits: 3
This is a statistics course designed to prepare the education student
with the essential statistical concepts for developing statistical designs
in their own research. In addition to the fundamental principles of
descriptive and inferential statistics, students learn to use computers to
compute data and to interpret computer-generated results produced
by statistical software. Course topics include measurements of central
tendency, variability, relative position, and correlation; sampling and
probability distributions, tests of significance; t-tests; analysis of
variance; chi-squire tests, and regression analysis.

EDAD 815 EDUCATION PLANNING AND EVALUATION
Former course number 711 Prerequisites: None
Credits: 3
This course is a comprehensive examination of planning practices and
procedures in selected educational settings and will include the
development of a model plan as a related research project. Advanced
study of topics related to the design and development of educational
policies and operations in support of organizational planning including
appropriate research needs and methods are also included. Also, an

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