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GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION AND INFORMATION STUDIES
UCLA
(310) 825-8326 The Graduate School of Education and Information Studies (GSEIS) develops expertise in both old and new methods of information storage and retrieval and brings innovative approaches in educational technology and information access to the schools and classrooms of the state and nation. In addition, GSEIS faculty members engage in research, teaching, and program development in the areas of management and leadership of schools and libraries, information policy, and information systems designs in organizations of all kinds. Through its scholarship, its graduate training programs, and its partnerships with schools and educational professionals, GSEIS honors its commitment to improve practice in schools, universities, and libraries, enhance theoretical and applied research, expand the role of the university in policy creation, and advance the careers of professional leaders and specialists. GSEIS is committed to the highest quality professional education and to the application of research to the challenges facing a diverse and increasingly urbanized world. The school has two departments--the Department of Education and the Department of Information Studies. Together, they embody the school's commitment to understand and improve teaching and learning, educational practice, information policy, and information systems in a diverse society. Research and doctoral training programs bring together faculties committed to expanding the range of knowledge in education, information science, and associated disciplines. The professional training programs develop librarians, teachers, and administrators within the enriched context of a research university. The school offers the following degrees: Education (M.A., M.Ed., Ed.D., Ph.D.) Educational Administration (Joint Ed.D. with UC Irvine) Library and Information Science (M.L.I.S., Ph.D.) Special Education (Joint Ph.D. with California State University, Los Angeles) Admission criteria established by the UCLA Graduate Division require a bachelor's degree from a regionally accredited institution comparable in standard and content to a bachelor's degree from the University of California. A scholastic average of B (3.0 on a 4.0 scale) or better is required--or its equivalent if the letter grade system is not used--for the last 60 semester units or last 90 quarter units of undergraduate study and in any postbaccalaureate study. Further requirements for international students are explained in the Graduate Study section. See http://www.gdnet.ucla.edu/gasaa/admissions. Graduate School of Education and Information Studies departments set additional admission requirements that are explained in the Curricula and Courses section of this catalog. Specific degree requirements vary according to the department and program. See the departmental listings in the Curricula and Courses section for details or refer to Program Requirements for UCLA Graduate Degrees at http://www.gdnet.ucla.edu/publications.html. The centers outlined below provide GSEIS with valuable resources that support school programs and research. See http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/research. Backed by the extraordinary talent of UCLA, K-12 schools, community colleges, and the diverse cultural and language communities of Los Angeles, Center X seeks to demonstrate that schools and teaching for low-income, minority, or limited English proficient children can be rich, rigorous, socially just, and caring. The center draws from the resources of GSEIS, including the school's contributions to education scholarship, its national research centers, and its schooling research and policy analysis programs. Center X transforms UCLA's pre-service Teacher Education Program, its professional development programs for practicing professional educators, and its Ed.D. program in educational leadership into a new configuration of collaborative activities among UCLA faculty, K-12 teachers, and community college educators. It provides rigorous professional education as it seeks to improve urban schooling for Los Angeles children. See http://www.centerx.gseis.ucla.edu. Center for the Study of Evaluation The Center for the Study of Evaluation (CSE) is devoted to educational research, development, training, and dissemination. For over 25 years, CSE has been at the forefront of efforts to improve the quality of education in America through systematic evaluation practices. As it helps pioneer valid and sensitive evaluation and testing techniques and promotes the use of evaluation for reasoned decision making, CSE ensures the best use of student time and taxpayer money. Focusing on questions basic to public education and its accountability, CSE provides leadership to the field in these areas by creating new methodologies for evaluating educational quality; creating new designs for assessing student learning; promoting the sound use of assessment data; setting the national research agenda; influencing practice. See http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/research/cse.html. Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing Funded by the U.S. Department of Education and the Office of Educational Research and Improvement, the National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing (CRESST) conducts research on topics related to K-12 educational testing. Research is dispersed in technical reports, newsletters, videos, assessments, scoring rubrics, guidebooks, and research articles. See http://www.cse.ucla.edu. Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership Clearinghouse on Entrepreneurship Education The Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership Clearinghouse on Entrepreneurship Education (CELCEE) is a joint project of UCLA and the Kauffman Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership. CELCEE acquires information from diverse sources--journal articles, websites, syllabi, conferences, curriculum guides, government publications, videos, books, and software--that pertain to entrepreneurship education and related topics from K-12 to postgraduate studies and from rural America to urban Asia. The CELCEE staff provides abstracts of the resources, which are indexed and organized in an online database that meets all national Library of Education standards for web pages. See http://www.celcee.edu. Urban Education Studies Center The Urban Education Studies Center (UESC) provides a unique setting where nationally recognized scholars work together with teachers and administrators to improve education for the nation's children. Recognizing the dramatic changes in the demographics of the American classroom and the challenges they present to public schools, the center combines the resources of UCLA and its laboratory elementary school to foster collaboration between researchers and practitioners who search for solutions to the problems facing schools as well as strategies for capitalizing on diversity. Research recognizes the role that family and the community play in children's lives and how pressures and changes in these institutions affect teaching and learning. UESC is committed to developing knowledge of how schools and other institutions can be improved to meet the changing needs of children and society. See http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/research/uesc. UCLA Online Institute for Cyberspace Law and Policy With the growth and development of cyberspace law as a separate discipline, a dynamic new body of scholarship has emerged. The Online Institute's Cyberspace Law Bibliography--updated regularly since 1995--provides an overview of recent books and journal articles in this area and includes a growing number of links to the works themselves. See http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/iclp. |
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