REQUIREMENTS FOR DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (Ph.D.)
Effective: Fall 2004
Introduction
The Ph.D. program in Instructional Psychology and Technology prepares students to assume positions of leadership in instructional design, research and evaluation, or second language acquisition. Graduates may take positions as faculty at other colleges and universities, direct other instructional designers in private or public institutions, or work as an individual consultant. The program requires 3 hours of prerequisite credit, 15-31 hours of Tool credit, 13 hours of Core credit, 2 hours of Seminar credit, a minimum of 12 hours of Internship credit, 6 hours of Project credit, 18 hours of Specialization credit as approved by the student’s advisory committee, and 18 hours of Dissertation credit, for a total of at least 87 hours. Students may specialize in Instructional Design, Research and Evaluation, or Second Language Acquisition.
1)Entrance requirements:
Acceptable undergraduate GPA; Graduate Record Examination (GRE) Score--verbal, quantitative, and writing proficiency; three letters of recommendation; and letter of intent. Note: The GRE must be taken two-three weeks in advance in order for the scores to reach the University by the admission deadlines. Students specializing in Second Language Acquisition must have advanced proficiency (as defined by the graduate committee of the language department in question) in their language of focus.
2)Entry Times
Fall Semester and Summer Term entry.
3)Application Deadlines:
The application for admission deadline is February 1st for both U.S. and international students.
Residency Requirements
The Instructional Psychology & Technology doctoral program is designed for full-time study. All Ph.D. students will be required to complete at least 9 credit hours each Fall and Winter semester to remain enrolled in the program. According to university policy, this means that doctoral students will work no more than 20 hours per week while enrolled in the program.
Full-time BYU employees wishing to pursue a doctoral degree in Instructional Psychology & Technology must first be admitted to the master’s program and successfully complete it. If they then choose to apply for doctoral study, they will need to secure partial or full professional development leave from the university and conform to the departmental policies related to the Ph.D. program.
Prerequisite Requirements
A high level of writing proficiency is required throughout the Ph.D. program. A technical writing course or demonstrated competence is required as a prerequisite. One of the following courses is recommended:
No.Course TitleCredit Hrs.
EDLF 617 Professional and Scholarly Writing in Education 3 OR
English 316 Technical Writing 3
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Foreign Language and Skill Requirement
There are two options for completing this requirement:
a. Language Acquisition specialization: an equivalent of at least 15 hours of statistics and computer science, and at least intermediate proficiency (demonstrated by test or by coursework completed through the 202 level) in a second foreign language. (This means that students must have two languages in addition to English in order to complete this specialization.)
- All other specializations: an equivalent of at least 15 hours in statistics and computer science.
It is recommended that the statistics and computer science courses be selected from the following:
No.Course Title Credit Hrs.
IP&T 550Empirical Inquiry and Statistics6
IP&T 650Quantitative Reasoning3
Stat 511Statistical Methods for Research 13
CS-CpIn 100Fundamentals of Computing and Information3
IP&T 560Microcomputer Materials Production3
IP&T 760Advanced CAI Programming3
CHum 287Programming Humanities Applications 1 3
CHum 281Computers and Teaching 1 3
Other courses, as approved by advisory committee to meet the requirements specified above.
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Foreign language, skill or prerequisite courses may be taken before or after admission to the Ph.D. program. However, if the courses are taken after admission to the program, they should be completed during the first year.
Core Requirements
All Ph.D. students, regardless of area of specialization, should receive broad training in Instructional Psychology & Technology. Breadth of training allows students to approach problems from several perspectives and increases their overall employability. In order to obtain this broad preparation it is strongly recommended that all students take the following core courses:
No.Course TitleCredit Hrs.
IP&T 564Instructional Design3
IP&T 620Learning Theory3
IP&T 652Assessing Learning Outcomes4
IP&T 661Intro. to Evaluation in Education3
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Substitutions may be made for any of the courses listed above upon written justification and approval of the advisory committee.
Department Seminar
The Department holds a seminar each week during the Fall & Winter Semesters on Wednesday from 12:00 noon – 1:00 p.m. All students and faculty in the Department are expected to attend this seminar. Students may receive 0.5 hrs. of credit for participating in 80% of the seminar sessions during a given semester by enrolling in IP&T 690R. Two hours of seminar credit (four semesters) are required for Ph.D. students.
Internships
The internship is a practicum under the supervision of a faculty member. The student performs work on a professional level for a client who may or may not be within the university community. The internship may or may not involve remuneration.
Students may register for 1 to 3 hours of IP&T 599R every semester they are enrolled in the program, resulting in a minimum of 12 semester hours of credit. Students should plan on working at least three hours per week for every hour of credit. Students may not register for more than 3 credit hours of internship per semester although they may work more than 10 hours per week on an internship. This requirement insures that students are involved in practicum experience throughout their stay in the program and not just during the first few semesters. A document describing the internship requirements in more detail is available from the department secretary.
Comprehensive Examination Projects
Students must pass a written comprehensive examination in order to be advanced to candidacy for the Ph.D. degree. Traditionally, this examination has been a paper and pencil essay exam administered over several days. Such exams may be appropriate for measuring the knowledge a student has gained in the program, but they are very poor in measuring the problem solving skills of development, research, evaluation and measurement, which are central to the Instructional Psychology & Technology program. In order to obtain a more valid measure of knowledge and problem solving skills, the comprehensive exam requirement for the Ph.D. in Instructional Psychology & Technology is met by successfully completing two Comprehensive Exam Projects (one in Development; one in Research if dissertation is evaluation or measurement based, or one in Evaluation or Measurement if dissertation is research based).
These projects are essentially take-home exams which each requires approximately one semester to complete. The projects are to be conducted in consultation with and under the supervision of a faculty sponsor. Each student is responsible for obtaining a written description from the department secretary concerning each project, its requirements, and procedures for completion and submission.
At the completion of each project, the student must prepare and submit a report of the project to the faculty sponsor following the guidelines listed in the project description documents available from the department secretary. After the completed report is evaluated and given a suggested grade by the faculty sponsor, it is submitted to two additional IP&T faculty members for their independent evaluation. The results of these two evaluations are submitted to the Graduate School and averaged with the sponsor's suggested grade to determine the final grade. Receiving passing marks on these evaluations meets the comprehensive exam requirement.
The following course numbers are associated with the projects described above:
ProjectClassCreditPrerequisite
MeasurementIP&T 657R3IP&T 550
EvaluationIP&T 667R3IP&T 661
ResearchIP&T 677R3IP&T 550
DevelopmentIP&T 687R3IP&T 564
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Specialization Credit
There are three fields of specialization for Ph.D. students: Instructional Design, Instructional Research and Evaluation, or Second Language Acquisition. Every student is required to take a minimum of 18 hours of graduate credit in the area of specialization.
Specialization Areas
Instructional Design
Students specializing inInstructional Design may select courses from any of the options listed below under specialization courses. However, it is recommended that they emphasize IP&T courses in Development and Production.
Research and Evaluation
Students specializing inResearch and Evaluation may select courses from any of the options listed below under specialization courses. However, it is recommended that they emphasize IP&T courses in Research, Evaluation and Measurement.
Second Language Acquisition
This specialization is a program offered jointly with one of the language departments in the College of Humanities. Students specializing in Second Language Acquisition must meet the following requirements:
a. Take 18 hours of graduate Linguistics and Language courses. Ling 540, Language Acquisition and Ling 660, Language Testing are required for six of these hours. It is recommended that the remaining 12 hours be selected from those listed under Second Language Acquisition below.
b. Conduct one of the Projects in the area of Second Language Acquisition.
c.Select an advisory committee with at least one member of the committee from the Instructional Psychology & Technology Department and one from the department where the language of specialization is housed. The chair of the advisory committee may come from the IP&T department or the language specialization department.
Specialization Courses
A.Instructional Psychology & Technology Courses
1.Development and Production Courses
IP&T 655 Instructional Print Design and Production
IP&T 665Instructional Visual/Video Production
IP&T 682Project & Instructional Resource Management
IP&T 664Advanced Instructional Design
IP&T 760Advanced CAI Programming
2.Research Courses
IP&T 656Qualitative Inquiry in Education
IP&T 756Advanced Qualitative Inquiry in Education
IP&T 750Research Synthesis and Conceptualization
- Evaluation and Measurement
IP&T 761Advanced Evaluation in Education
IP&T 752Measurement Theory
4.Other
IP&T 657R, 667R,Projects
677R, or 687R
IP&T 599RInternships
IP&T 693R Directed Individual Study
B. Other Departments (Undergraduate courses may apply toward prerequisite requirements, but they may not apply towards specialization credit.) Recommended courses include, but are not limited to the following:
1.Psychology
Psych 520Advanced Developmental Psychology
Psych 531Organizational Psychology
Psych 535Behavior Modification Techniques
Psych 550Theory & Research in Social Psychology
Psych 560Learning Theory
Psych 565Motivational Psychology
Psych 575Cognitive Processes
Psych 584Cognitive Neuroscience
Psych 655Attitude Measurement & Change
Psych 677RSeminar in Cognitive Processes
2.Second Language Acquisition
Ling 521Phonology
Ling 535Semantics
Ling 545Psycholinguistics
Ling 625Pronunciation Theory and Pedagogy
Ling 631Grammar Usage
Ling 550Sociolinguistics
Ling 630Topics in Syntax
Ling 641Interlanguage Analysis
Ling 672TESOL Reading and Writing
Ling 677Advanced Methodology
Ling 678 Advanced Materials Development
Language(i.e., Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, or Spanish) 670R: Tutorial Internship in Language
Language(i.e., Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, or Spanish) 680R: Special Studies in Language
Language(i.e., Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, or Spanish) 690R: Seminar in Language
3.Statistics
Stat 334Methods of Survey Sampling
Stat 435Analysis of Categorical and other Nonparametric Data
Stat 510Introduction to Statistics
Stat 511Statistical Methods for Research 1
Stat 512Statistical Methods for Research 2
Stat 531Experimental Design
Stat 534Sampling
Stat 536Modern Regression Methods
Stat 611Multivariate Statistical Methods
Psych 501Data Analysis in Psychological Research 1
Psych 502Data Analysis in Psychological Research 2
4.Others
CS 142Introduction to Computer Programming
CpIn 230Introduction to Multimedia
CS 404Ethics & Computers in Society
Hist 490Historical Research & Writing
Anth 442Ethnographic Skills
Phil 305Predicate Logic
EdLF 672Research Methods
Special Seminars
Four or more students with interest in a special, narrow topic of Instructional Psychology & Technology may request that a faculty member sponsor a seminar in that special area. These seminars are associated with assigned IP&T credit. This credit may be used toward the fulfillment of the specialization requirement.
Declared Minors
Students are free to take relevant coursework in any other department on campus as approved by their advisory committee. If a student wishes to declare a minor in another discipline, that student should contact the department concerned for information on requirements for a minor.
Dissertation and Oral Examination
A minimum of 18 hours of dissertation credit, IP&T 799R, is required for graduation. A student may not enroll for dissertation credit until all Projects and Comprehensive Exams are completed.
Once a student has decided on a dissertation topic and identified a chairman and advisory committee, the student must prepare a dissertation prospectus. The prospectus must be approved by the student's advisory committee, the department chairman and the Dean before the study may be conducted.
After the written dissertation has been approved by the student's advisory committee in a preliminary oral exam, the student should make arrangements through the department secretary (a minimum of two weeks in advance) for the final Oral Examination.
A document describing the Dissertation requirements in more detail may be obtained from the department secretary.
Department Fellowships
The department has a limited number of fellowships available for doctoral students. These fellowships are awarded on a competitive basis.
Department Enrollment and Progress Policies
To encourage, facilitate and monitor student progress in the program, the faculty has approved the following policies.
According to the Office of Graduate Studies, students should submit a program of study by the third week of their second semester or term. A study list must be submitted before students will be allowed to register for the third semester or term.
Students may not register for internship, project or dissertation credit without approval from their committee chair or sponsor.
Students should not register for dissertation credit until they complete their projects.
Students should not register for more than 4 hours of dissertation credit without an approved prospectus.
Once students are dropped from the program, they will have to apply to be considered for readmission in February and compete with new students for admission.
Readmission for students who have not completed any course work, projects, etc., for two years will be very unlikely.
The time limit for completing graduate degrees is strictly enforced (five years for master’s degrees and eight years for doctoral degrees).
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