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Buss, Ray R. – Studies in Higher Education, 2022
The researcher examined how end-of-first-year students in a professional practice doctoral program were developing professional identities as educational leaders and educational researchers, researching professionals. Data were gathered using two questionnaires and interviews. Quantitative and qualitative data revealed substantial development of…
Descriptors: Doctoral Students, Professional Identity, Leadership, Researchers
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Buss, Ray R. – Impacting Education: Journal on Transforming Professional Practice, 2018
In this essay, I have described how the CPED Guiding Principles for Program Design (GPPD) and Design Concepts (DC) have influenced the development and implementation of Arizona State University's EdD in Leadership and Innovation program. I have explained the pervasive influence of the CPED GPPD and DC on various aspects of the program including…
Descriptors: Doctoral Programs, Program Development, Program Design, Program Implementation
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Buss, Ray R.; Wolf, Leigh Graves – Impacting Education: Journal on Transforming Professional Practice, 2021
In this essay, we have described how we build and sustain community in our online EdD program. Initially, we discussed our understanding of community and its influence on our efforts. Then, we discussed three important theoretical frameworks--Wenger's Community of Practice, Garrison et al.'s Community of Inquiry, and Morris and Stommel's Critical…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Doctoral Programs, Education Courses, Communities of Practice
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Buss, Ray R.; Avery, Andrea – Journal of Research on Leadership Education, 2017
We examined how end-of-first-year students in a Carnegie Project on the Education Doctorate (CPED)-affiliated EdD program were developing professional identities as educational leaders and researchers. Quantitative and qualitative data revealed substantial development of leadership skills, but even greater growth in perceptions of research skills.…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Doctoral Programs, Professional Identity, Experiential Learning
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Buss, Ray R.; Zambo, Ron; Zambo, Debby; Perry, Jill A.; Williams, Tiffany R. – Studies in Higher Education, 2017
Limitations of the education doctorate (EdD) and the emergence of professional practice doctorates have influenced those offering the EdD to re-envision, re-define, and reclaim the EdD as the degree of choice for the next generation of educational leaders. Colleges of education faculty members have used the Carnegie Project on the Education…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes, Doctoral Programs, Schools of Education
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Zambo, Debby; Buss, Ray R.; Zambo, Ron – Studies in Higher Education, 2015
The educational doctorate (EdD) is being re-envisioned as a distinct professional degree. Today's EdD graduates are envisioned as scholarly practitioners. Given this it may be reasoned these individuals have unique identities comprised of several layers. In this study, we examined how 18 entering students and 17 graduating students from an EdD…
Descriptors: Doctoral Programs, Graduate Students, College Graduates, Self Concept
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Zambo, Ron; Zambo, Debby; Buss, Ray R.; Perry, Jill A.; Williams, Tiffany R. – Innovative Higher Education, 2014
Given continued confusion about the Ed.D.degree, universities affiliated with the Carnegie Project on the Education Doctorate (CPED) have re-envisioned it using a set of guiding principles and design features. In this study, we investigated why students and graduates chose to pursue the Ed.D., what and how they learned, how they viewed themselves,…
Descriptors: Doctoral Programs, Education Majors, Student Educational Objectives, Alignment (Education)
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Buss, Ray R.; Zambo, Debby; Painter, Suzanne R.; Moore, David W. – Innovative Higher Education, 2013
Recent criticisms of the Educational Doctorate (Ed.D.) have challenged faculty members to create or reform such programs. In response to these concerns, faculty members at a particular institution designed and implemented a new Ed.D. program focused on leadership and innovation. We conducted this action research study in order to examine the…
Descriptors: Doctoral Programs, Schools of Education, College Faculty, Educational Change
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Amrein-Beardsley, Audrey; Zambo, Debby; Moore, David W.; Buss, Ray R.; Perry, Nancy J.; Painter, Suzanne R.; Carlson, David L.; Foulger, Teresa S.; Olson, Kate; Puckett, Kathleen S. – Journal of Research on Leadership Education, 2012
Dispute about professional doctoral programs in education has increased, with much hinging on the design of educational doctorate (EdD) programs. In this study, the first cohort of graduates responded to a new, innovative EdD program designed to develop them as leaders, scholars, and practitioners. Twenty graduates completed an exit survey, and a…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Doctoral Programs, Doctoral Dissertations, Content Analysis