The following are key learning outcomes you will be expected to achieve as part of your residency experiences at each level:

Residency 1

1. Demonstrate an understanding of the necessary elements required to complete the program.
2. Use university support services to contribute to the successful completion of the doctoral degree.
3. Utilize critical-thinking skills expected of doctoral students.
4. Demonstrate an understanding of the literature review process necessary to complete the doctoral study.
5. Demonstrate leadership skills expected of doctoral students.
6. Demonstrate best practices in presentation skills. 
7. Demonstrate an understanding of quantitative approaches necessary to complete the doctoral study.
8. Demonstrate the ability to formulate appropriate research questions for the doctoral study that incorporate social change.
9. Identify strategies for continued professional development as scholar-practitioners.

Residency 2

1. Utilize critical-thinking skills expected of doctoral students.
2. Use university support services to contribute to the successful completion of the doctoral degree.
3. Demonstrate an understanding of the literature review process necessary to complete the doctoral study.
4. Conceptualize, design, and execute dissertation research studies that reflect doctoral-level thinking and have the potential to contribute to positive social change.
5. Demonstrate proficiency in quantitative data collection and analysis approaches, specific to the discipline, to support what is learned in research courses and what is required for the doctoral study.
6. Demonstrate an understanding of what is required to disseminate research within the appropriate field.
7. Identify strategies for continued professional development as scholar-practitioners.