This course deals with several aspects of the role of supervisory personnel to demonstrate how educational supervision is a carefully structured leadership with responsibilities related to the improvement of instruction. In the context of a supervisory role, students examine in-service training, inspection, staff guidance, research, and evaluation of personnel and curriculum concerns. Various levels of supervision and organization patterns are analyzed. This course in educational evaluation is designed for graduate students who are pursuing an advanced degree in the field of industrial technology education, vocational technical education, or a related area. Students receive instruction relating to the development and evaluation of written achievement tests.
Further teaching is presented relative to basic descriptive statistics and parametric techniques.
The course is a study of federal and state laws pertaining to occupational education. Particular attention is given to the legislative process as it relates to current school law and to the judicial process in its interpretation of school law. This course is designed to enable occupational educators to plan research, write research reports, and interpret statistical occupational education data. Each student is expected to demonstrate proficiency in educational research by designing a research project pertaining to one or more components of occupational education. In this class, emphasis is placed upon the teacher as an innovative designer of strategies for planning curriculum.