Concentrations in:
-Curriculum and Instruction
-Educational Assessment and Evaluation
-Instructional Technology
-Leadership of Educational Organizations

To provide a solid foundation for effective educational practice and career advancement for all levels of educational practitioners, including K-12, Higher Education, and Corporate Learning. Students develop a solid foundation in learning theory, instructional design, and instructional technology, and application of educational research methods.

1. Utilize the appropriate criteria for selecting curricular content, organization of content, and methods of curriculum evaluation in instructional technology.
2. Analyze problems in curriculum and develop appropriate solutions based on sound methodology.
3. Assess and evaluate student performance and base decisions on these results.
4. Integrate technology in the process of teaching, learning, and educational research.
5. Present content using clear and appropriate methods based on the audience and subject matter.
6. Use research findings to respond to academic, physical, social, and cultural differences in educating students and recommend method modifications based on research results.
7. Write an evaluation plan for a course, curriculum, or training module.
8. Analyze the needs of specific audiences and select, design, or modify curriculum to address these needs.

AIU has developed a unique assessment process to assess the quality of student work in four major areas throughout our program. Every class has one common assignment that is used to rate each student's abilities in Communication, Critical Analysis, Professional Mastery, and Research. These criteria are linked to course, program, and institutional level learning outcomes. The data from these assessments are used to gauge the progress of learning within our program.

Professional Mastery or Content: This assessment measures the use of appropriate, relevant, and innovative content exploring the subject matter of the course in order to solve problems and analyze current trends, theories, opportunities and challenges.

Research: This assessment measures the students' ability to demonstrate consistent use of credible, relevant sources to support ideas and to present material in appropriate APA format with minimal errors.

Communication: This assessment measures the students' use of straightforward language that conveys meaning to readers. The language has few errors. Sentences are correctly constructed, with few run-ons or fragments. Agreements between subject and verb, and pronouns and antecedents, are correct. There are few errors of punctuation or spelling.

Critical Analysis: This assessment measures the students' ability to evaluate, integrate, and critique a variety of opinions, beliefs, abstract ideas, and data to inform judgment, identify and solve problems, and, where appropriate, propose new hypotheses.

The results shown below reflect student achievement for all courses within the Master of Education program. The figures represent the percentage of students who received above average (exemplary or accomplished) ratings for the rubric criteria. The results are for the second quarter of 2010, with a total of 297 students in 22 course sections.

Professional Mastery = 73%
Communication = 77%
Critical Analysis = 67%
Research = 70%

Not Applicable