Master of Applied Science in Assessment
Learning Improvement Option
Missouri Western State University
A Masters Program for You!
If you are a dedicated teacher wanting to improve your skills and increase student learning, consider Missouri Western State University's Master of Applied Science (MAS) in Assessment degree as your next career move.
Today, educational instituitions from preschool to college are faced with the demands and challenges of high standrds and accountability. Graduates of the MAS in Assessment Degree will learn how to meet these expectations while improving quality within their organizations.
The Learning Improvement Option
The Learning Improvement Option is designed as a two-year professional applied master's degree that will equip teachers to meet the 21st century challenges of assessment and improvement.
Graduates will perform as master teachers who have acquired skills of collecting, analyzing and interpreting data; analyzing contextual influences to include policy and economics; and developing, implementing and disseminating coherent and relevant plans for improvement at many levels.
The capstone project requires that graduate candidates develop and implement a learning improvement project. The project will lead to improvement in the classroom, the school, the district, or at the state level. The project begins with the identification of a problem the graduate candidate wants to improve. For example, at the classroom level, the graduate candidate will identify the need to improve student's academic skills or civic skills. At the school level, the graduate candidate will, with the help of other school professionals, improve parental involvement.
Critical Components to the School Improvement Project
- Choose a problem
- Survey professional literature
- Adopt a theoretical framework to both guide data collection and the development of the improvement option
- Identify possible barriers
- Collect and analyze data
- Develop learning improvement plan
- Apply learning improvement plan and disseminate results
If this excites you and strikes you as being professionally challenging and fun, and if you want to learn how to more effectively make a difference in your classroom, school, and beyond, this degree is for you!
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Summer - Year One
EDU 510 - Policy Decisions and the Data that Drives Them (3)
June
Online - Arranged
EDU 520 - 21st Century Educators: Foundations of Professional Behaviors (3)
June
1:30 - 4:20 MTWR
Call 816-271-4332 for Additional Information
and ask to speak with Dr. Mike Smith
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