Key Steps in Ed.D. Program

Essential Resources

🔗APA & Academic Writing Tutorial

🔗Manuscript Checklist

🔗Three concentrations in Ed.D. of Educational Leadership

🔗Ed.D. Degree Requirements & Course Pathways

🔗Transfer Graduate Credit Policy & Procedures

🔗Ed.D. Handbook Cohort XV (PDF)

🔗Not-to-Do List

1. Develop Research Questions

🔗How to Generate Research Questions in Leadership Research

🔗Push Boundaries of Leadership Research

🔗Sins in Leadership Research

🔗Zombie Ideas in Leadership Research

🔗Generate Research Questions

🔗Constructing Opportunities for Contribution

2. Conduct & Write Literature Review

🔗How to Conduct & Write Effective Literature Review

🔗Systematic & Integrative Reviews of Literature

🔗Core Leadership Research Journals

🔗Manuscript Checklist

🔗APA & Academic Writing Tutorial

🔗Principles of Writing

🔗How to Read a Research Paper

3. Build a Theoretical Framework

🔗Ensure the Alignment Among Construct, Theory, Theoretical Framework, and Methods

🔗Define Constructs: Theoretical & Operational Definitions

🔗Define Terms to Ensure Construct Clarity

🔗What Constitutes a Theoretical Contribution

🔗Alignment: Full Paper Matrices

🔗Checklist: Alignment of Theory & Method

4. Design a Research Study with Fitting Methods

🔗Methodological Fit in Leadership Research

🔗Dr. Grace J. Liang: Qualitative Research in Educational Leadership

🔗Dr. Jiangang Xia: Quantitative Research in Educational Leadership - Estimation Thinking

🔗Resource & Exemplars: Methods Writing (Qualitative Research Design)

🔗Seek Methodological Rigor

🔗Lagging Methods in Leadership Research

🔗Common Methodological Mistakes

🔗Gioia Methodology

🔗Hierarchy of Evidence

5. Comprehensive Exam

🔗How to prepare for your Ed.D. comprehensive exam?

🔗Ensure the Alignment Among Construct, Theory, Theoretical Framework, and Methods in Research

🔗Comprehensive Exam 2025 Cohort XIII.docx

6. Present Prospectus

🔗Next Steps After Passing the Comprehensive Exam

🔗Prospectus presentation: Procedures

🔗To-do list after successfully presenting prospectus

7. Defend Dissertation

🔗Conduct dissertation research & prepare for dissertation defense

8. After Dissertation Defense

🔗To-Do List After Dissertation Defense

🔗Publish dissertation in peer-reviewed journals

🔗How to Peer Review Papers?