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Master of Applied
Science in Assessment:
Learning Improvement Option
Careers
What are the career opportunities with this degree?
With a MAS in Assessment – Learning Improvement Option
degree you are equipped with the knowledge and skills necessary
to have a positive impact upon your students’ learning
and to provide documentation of the progress. Furthermore, you
will understand how to gather student and school performance
data; analyze the data; develop an improvement plan; draw upon
necessary resources; work within political and practical constraints
to put your plan into action; and disseminate your results in
such a way that your teaching colleagues benefit. The degree
would uniquely qualify you to be an academic coach, discipline
chair, district assessment director, or lay a strong foundation
for a career as a school principal or superintendent.
Is there a high demand for this field?
American organizations are coming to the conclusion that data-driven
management provides decision-makers with the tools and insights
needed to gather and interpret appropriate data for use in the
decision making processes. For areas of business, the bottom
line is increased profit. For education, the bottom line is increased
student learning. High levels of accountability for student learning
bring high demands for maximizing time and resources to achieve
target performances through data. No Child Left Behind and other
initiatives have created a high demand for teachers who can make
a difference in the classroom and who can document and share
their results. This is a trend that will only continue due to
the increasing support of technology.
In addition to the classroom
and school level of need, state and national education organizations
depend heavily upon data-driven decision making to meet standards
of accountability and success and need staff and leaders trained
to function in this 21st century mode of practice.
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