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Residence Requirements
Each education doctoral student must complete a minimum of 63 credit hours of course work. The
following residence options will be available in the future; currently, our program is 100% online.
- Four summers: A minimum of four 6-week summer semesters of residence work plus Research
Study to be completed at the student’s home residence is required.
- Summer / Fall / Spring / Summer: A minimum of 13 months of residence work beginning with
the summer session plus Research Study to be completed at the student’s home residence is
required.
- Two each Summer / Fall / Spring: A minimum of 23 months of residence work beginning with
the summer session plus Research Study to be completed at the student’s home residence is
required.
- Distance Learning: Up to 100% of the course requirements may be completed through CCTC’s
distance learning program.
Summer Seminar
Every graduate student must attend a one week summer symposium and complete the written requirements
prior to petitioning graduation. Please read carefully the Summer Seminar information to determine
which track you should register for in your particular Doctoral degree program.
Plan of Study
During the second year, the student may take ED 765 Research
Methodology in which the doctoral student is introduced to the various types of dissertations, to the
preliminary research necessary to prepare an adequate proposal, and to the proposal writing process.
The course project involves preparing a proposal for dissertation. However, it is neither required nor
guaranteed that this proposal will be developed into the student’s actual dissertation.
Within
one year after completing all course work, comprehensive examinations must be taken. At the completion
of all required course work, the doctoral student must be registered for Research Study continuously
until the written and oral comprehensive examinations have been successfully completed and the
dissertation successfully defended and presented ready for binding. Defense of the dissertation will
be scheduled after the dissertation has been acknowledged by the College Doctoral Committee as worthy
of the formal defense procedures.
The Doctor of Education degree will be conferred only upon
those of strong character, displaying qualities of leadership and evidencing a high degree of scholarship
in their chosen fields.
Dissertation
Every candidate for a doctoral degree is required to prepare and
present a dissertation that shows complete independent investigation of a subject area and is acceptable
in form and content to the student’s Dissertation Committee and the Doctoral Committee. It is necessary
that the work be of publishable quality. The dissertation must exhibit originality and thoroughness of
research and must be an exhaustive treatment of the subject chosen. The college dissertation clearance
officer must approve the form of the dissertation. In addition, the graduate student must present his
research in an acceptable and correct grammatical style. Mere technical form is not enough; the material
should reflect high quality of research and knowledge expected of a doctor of education.
The
student must be registered for one of the Research Study courses during each year he is working toward
completion of his dissertation. This requirement must be met whether or not the student is residing in
the area while doing this work. Enrollment in Research Study must begin when the topic proposal is
ready for approval.
All dissertations and other projects prepared as part of the requirements
for a graduate degree automatically become the property of Calvary Christian Teachers College and may
not be published or reproduced without the written consent of the College.
Admission Requirements
In addition to the General Admission Requirements,
applicants for the Ed. D. in Curriculum and Instruction must have earned at least 18 credits of English,
history, or science on the undergraduate or graduate level according to the desired program. The
science credits must include a general chemistry course and a physics course.
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