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Ed.D: Leadership

Interview Protocols

Education Evaluation Toolkit

Originally developed by the Centre for Higher Education Research and Scholarship with teaching practitioners in mind. However, it is also beneficial for anyone wishing to conduct an educational evaluation as research. These interactive pages cover a range of tools and resources that you can use to carry out evaluation, including questionnaires and interviews.

Tools and resources for evaluation

Questionnaires

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Interviews

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Pulse Survey

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What Can I Evaluate? 

Self-efficacy - Self-efficacy is the belief in one's own capability to plan and perform actions to attain a specific outcome (Bandura, 1997).

Tools to Assess Self-efficacy

Sense of Belonging - The sense that students are important and respected members of their universities (Anderman & Freeman, 2004).

Tools to Assess Sense of Belonging

Self-evaluation - Ways to systematically reflect on one's own teaching and its effectiveness so as to find ways of improving.

Tools to Assess Self-evaluation

Agency - Refers to an individual's psychosocial capacity for intentional, self-directed, and self-regulated action.

Tools to Assess Agency 

Learning & Understanding - Evaluate learning and understanding as experienced by students.

Tools to Assess Learning &  Understanding 

  

Finding Surveys & Other Assessment Instruments

In this age of open access, more and more research instruments are freely available for dissertation use (non-commercial). The next tab has several databases that will help you find the instrument needed for your research. 

There are some research instruments that are proprietary and are only available via purchase. If this is the case, contact information is usually provided.  

Broad Searching. The sources below provide broad search options. For more specific results, use one of the Assessment Databases in the next tab. 

Assessment Library Databases

Web Resources for locating a data collection instruments

Search Tips

Looking for qualitative or quantitative types of research?

  • Try adding the words "qualitative" or "quantitative" to your search terms
  • ex: leadership and qualitative

Looking for surveys?

  • Try adding the word 'survey' to your search terms
  • ex: leadership and surveys

Looking for interviews? [Primary source]

  • Open the 'Advanced Search' in Academic Search Ultimate or whatever database you are using
  • Type in 'Leadership' (or your topic) into the search box.
  • Scroll down to Document Format options. Click the box next to 'Interviews' to limit results to interview format.

IRB: Institutional Review Board

Trevecca Nazarene University faculty and students are involved in many research projects. Some research reflects faculty and students' professional research interests, and some research is related to class or program requirements.

All research conducted by Trevecca faculty and students, and all research conducted at Trevecca by outside groups, must be approved by Trevecca's Institutional Review Board, which is responsible for ensuring compliance with established federal and university procedural and ethical guidelines for research.

If you have Trevecca account credentials, you can find more details about IRB requirements, including links to required training, application processes, and sample forms, by logging into the IRB SharePoint page at Institutional Review Board - Home (sharepoint.com).