EDF 660: Educational Inquiry and Evaluation
Common Course Assessment: Empirical Evidence for the Solution
Common Course Standards:
Council of Learned Societies in Education (CLSE) Foundations of Education
Standards 1996
Principle #3 - The educator understands and can apply critical perspectives
on education and schooling.
3.1 - The educator understands how the foundations of education knowledge
base of resources, theories, distinctions, and analytic techniques provides
instruments for the critical analysis of education in its various forms.
3.2 - The educator has developed habits of critically examining educational
practice in light of this knowledge base.
3.3 - The educator can utilize theories and critiques of the overarching purposes
of schooling as well as considerations of the intent, meaning, and effects of
educational institutions.
3.4 - The educator can identify and appraise educational assumptions and
arrangements in a way that can lead to changes in conceptions and values.
3.5 - The educator uses critical judgment to question educational assumptions
and arrangements and to identify contradictions and inconsistencies among social
and educational values, policies, and practices.
Directions to the Student: Students will locate empirical studies related to a topic,
analyze and critique the studies, and draw conclusions and implications for scholarship or
practice.
Rubric for Empirical Evidence for the Solution:
Elements
Text Problem
identification/
Framing the
argument
Principles #3.2,
3.3, 3.4, 3.5
Distinguished
(3)
Proficient
(2)
Articulates a
clear,
appropriate, and
original
argument that
identifies the
basics and
nuances of a
problem.
Articulates a
clear and
appropriate
argument that
identifies the
main aspects of
a problem but
not the nuances.
Progressing
(1)
Articulates a
somewhat clear
argument
regarding the
problem.
Unsatisfactory
(0)
Unclear or
inappropriate
argument;
unable to identify
a problem.
Updated 2/6/16
Identification of
relevant
research
Principle # 3.1
Analysis and
Evaluation
Principles #3.1,
3.2, 3.3, 3.4,
3.5
Conclusion and
Implications
Principles #3.1,
3.2, 3.3, 3.4,
3.5
Identifies and
selects empirical
studies that are
appropriate and
relevant.
Identifies some
empirical studies
that are
appropriate;
some selections
are tangentially
relevant.
Identifies some
empirical
studies, most are
tangentially
relevant.
Unable to
identify relevant
empirical
research to
support work.
Makes insightful
use of course
concepts to
analyze and
critique empirical
studies.
Accurately uses
course concepts
to analyze
empirical
studies.
Uses some
course concepts
to analyze
empirical
studies.
Cannot identify
areas of
inconsistency in
empirical
studies.
Effectively
synthesizes
multiple sources;
accurately
interprets
evidence to draw
well- supported
implications for
scholarship or
practice.
Makes
reasonable
conclusions;
shows
substantial
capacity to
interpret
evidence to draw
implications for
scholarship or
practice.
Effectively
synthesizes
multiple sources;
accurately
interprets
evidence to draw
well- supported
implications for
scholarship or
practice.
Makes
reasonable
conclusions;
shows
substantial
capacity to
interpret
evidence to draw
implications for
scholarship or
practice.
Updated 2/6/16