Special Education – Doctoral Student Learning Outcomes

Special Education – Doctoral Student Learning Outcomes

After completing the Special Education Ph.D. degree program students will:

1. Demonstrate a wide scope of as well as an in-depth understanding for the field of special education research and disabilities.
2. Demonstrate critical thinking and ability to evaluate, understand, and communicate (oral/written) special education scholarship and research.
3. Demonstrate an understanding of and ability to synthesize and apply special education research (knowledge/theory) to problems of practice through the generation and dissemination of original scholarship.
4. Demonstrate scholarly habits of curiosity, inquiry, skepticism, and data-based decision-making.
5. Demonstrate understanding and valuing of diversity through pedagogical and inquiry endeavors.
6. Demonstrate a professional identity appropriate for future career plans.