PSY 889 - Action Research in Org Development

3 Credit(s)

Consistent with Edgewood College’s commitment to building community, each student will complete an applied project in the workplace or community related to a topic they select relevant to the OD field. Applied research is the key as “real time” collaborative projects that involve faculty from multiple disciplines work with students to construct projects that matter to communities or organizations are undertaken, and in which individual learning from course experiences are applied. To ensure the quality of this capstone project, and consistent with Edgewood College’s common identity across its graduate offerings, multiple levels of assessment will provide the basis for evaluation, representing the state of the art in assessment approaches and a robust evaluation framework encompassing formative (i.e., reaction and learning) and summative (i.e., behavior and results) criteria as follows: 1. Project level self, peer, and instructor assessments comprises internal assessment, 2. Site level contact or supervisor assessment comprises external assessment, 3. Organization/community level assessment comprises impact assessment.

Prerequisite(s): PSY 872.