General Approach
The Ph.D. in Research, Assessment, and Program Evaluation offers a Higher Education focus and a K-12 focus. Courses generally meet once a week in the evening.  Study is available on a full- or part-time basis for either focus.

The small size of the Ph.D. program at Seton Hall University allows for frequent faculty interaction and close work with your adviser. We are committed to maintaining a small, selective and focused program that will prepare our graduates to pursue a range of possible careers.

Program Requirements

This program requires a total of 90 credits, 54 of which must be taken at Seton Hall.

Matriculation
Doctoral students with a higher education focus will be considered for matriculation after completing 18 core course credits and by demonstrating competence in the core courses by successfully passing a qualifying written examination. The core courses are:

ELMP 6005	Statistical Methods	3
ELMP 6101	Introduction to Higher Education as a Field of Study	3
ELMP 7765	Policy Analysis in Administration	3
ELMP 8891	Directed Research	3
ELMP 9993	Organization and Governance in Higher Education	3
ELMP 9997	Historical Development of American Education	3

Students are prohibited from taking additional credits until successfully passing the qualifying written examination and will have only two opportunities to pass the qualifying written examination.

Research Course Requirements
The Ph.D. in Education Research, Assessment, and Program Evaluation requires a minimum of 18 credits of research courses beyond the core program requirements.  The following courses offered by the ELMP department fulfill this 18 credit requirement:

• Intermediate Statistics
• Multivariate Statistics: Application of HLM in Educational Research
• Program Evaluation
• Assessment and Data-Driven Instruction
• Qualitative Research
• Advanced Qualitative Research
• Survey Research
• Educational Research Design & Analysis: Using Survey Data
  
  

Research Practicum (3 credits)
The research practicum promotes students’ learning of the research process through direct experience.

It may consist of working in a research program with an individual faculty or a group of faculty, a research project with an educational organization or institute, or a program evaluation project in college or PK-12 school settings.

For additional information on courses and curricula, please see the Graduate Catalogue.