Prepare Reviews of Published Research Literature
1. Students will demonstrate ability to find, interpret, and evaluate published research and evaluation studies relevant to current issues and policy questions in public education and prepare a comprehensive summary report designed to communicate the findings and recommendations to public school adminisrators and policy makers at the local or state level.

Exercise Conscious Ethical Judgment
2. Students will show evidence that they have acquired conscious ethical judgment and demonstrate an understanding of and sensitivity to the kinds of ethical issues that frequently arise when conducting educational research; evaluating educational programs and curricula; or constructing, administering, interpreting, and reporting the results of tests and other assessments of what students have and have not learned. Note: This is an ambitious, multifaceted goal and one that is challenging to assess, but it is too important to ignore or to substitute with a lesser goal that is more directly measureable but does not represent our real intent. We have deliberately used the phrases "conscious ethical judgment" and "understanding and sensitivity to the kinds of ethical issues thar frequently arise" in describing the intended learning outcome here because we have not been able to find alternative words that better describe our intent. These two phrases each represent a latent construct, but they describe our real goals. We have listed specific indicator behaviors in the next column that we are willing to accept as evidence of the extent to which these latent goals have or have not been achieved. However, the indicator behaviors are not the real goals. They are simply behavioral manifestations that we are willing to accept as evidence of our real intent. The phrases we have listed as the real goals provide a context in which the indicators become worth achieving. Without these general instrucitonal objectives, the indicator behaviors lack significance. The approach we have taken is consistent with the twofold approach to describing expected learning outcomes popularized by Norman Gronlund in the l960s and 1970s and in the many subsequent editions of his widely used textbook in response to the behaviorist approach advocated by Robert Mager which trivialized education and reduced it to training. Gronlund advocated writing expected learning otucomes at two, complementary levels which he called General Instructional Objectves (GIOs) and Specific Learner Outcomes (SLOs). The SLOs are operational definitions of the accompanying GIOs or indicator behaviors, but each SLO lacks meaning and significance outside of the context of the accompanying GIO. Together, the GIOs and the accompanying SLOs communicate the real intent and what the instructor is willing to accept as evidence that the intent has or has not been achieved. The first two or leftmost columns in BYU's grid are consistent with the approach advocated by Gronlund. But requiring the outcome described in the first column to be written as an indicator behavior is not only unnecessary, but it defeats the purpose for having two different, but complementary columns. Gronlund advocaes using the term "understanding" as a GIO, and then defining it in terms of acceptable manifest behaviors in the SLOs. Having said all this, i want to add that I have tried to describe our intended goal in the "Program Lerning Outcome" column accompanied by indicator behaviors in the "Evidence " column. I welcome suggestions about how to better describe our real intent in this situation, but I am not interested in misrepresenting or trivializing that intent.

Analyze and Critique Research Proposals Prepared by Others
3. Students will demonstrate the knowledge and skills needed to evaluate written proposals submitted by other scholars to conduct research and/or measurement stuides and formulate constructive suggestions for improving the proposed project.

Plan an Original Research or Measurement Study
4. Students will demonstrate the knowledge, skills, and dispositions needed to plan an original research or measurement study that is likely to contribute to improving educational theory, practice, and/or policy.