Spring 2027

Dissertation Proposal Writing in Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis

Dissertation proposal writing in educational leadership and policy analysis covering research design, literature review, frameworks, and data collection/analysis.

offering recorded3 credits
Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 Rachelle Winkle-Wagner

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Recent recorded grades — Fall 2024: 3.86 GPA, 92.9% A/AB (n=14 letter grades); Fall 2025: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=6 letter grades); Spring 2026: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=7 letter grades).

What you’ll be able to do

  • Identify and develop organizing, planning, and writing strategies for a dissertation proposal and other academic research.

  • Develop and refine research questions for a proposed research project.

  • Evaluate relevant conceptual and/or theoretical frameworks and apply them to the research proposal.

  • Present the significance and relevance of a research problem.

  • Select, critically review, and synthesize appropriate past research, including prevalent research themes, comparisons of methodology, and limitations or gaps.

  • Justify why the planned research method, collection, and analysis are appropriate for the proposed research question and conceptual framework.

  • Review writing for appropriate academic language, style and grammar

  • Develop the skills to build a rigorous, well-written dissertation proposal

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Prerequisites

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  • Graduate/professional standing

Professors

Spring 2027

Recent recorded grades — Fall 2020: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=7 letter grades); Fall 2022: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=9 letter grades); Spring 2026: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=7 letter grades). Includes jointly taught sections.

Historical instructors & teaching patterns

RACHELLE WINKLE-WAGNER is recorded teaching in Fall 2020, Fall 2021, Fall 2022, Spring 2024, Spring 2026. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

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Spring 2027

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Student experience

the class

Recent recorded grades — Fall 2024: 3.86 GPA, 92.9% A/AB (n=14 letter grades); Fall 2025: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=6 letter grades); Spring 2026: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=7 letter grades).

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Topics

  • Problem statements, literature review, and theoretical/conceptual frameworks.
  • Research design, participant recruitment, site selection, data collection, and analysis.

Skills

  • Organizing, planning, and writing strategies for a dissertation proposal.
  • Developing and refining research questions.
  • Critically reviewing and synthesizing past research.
  • Reviewing writing for academic language, style, and grammar.

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ELPA 825 · Spring 2027

Dissertation Proposal Writing in Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis

Recorded 2026-10-14
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Recorded 2026-10-14

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