Author:
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Keywords: future, faculty, education, doctoral
Number of Pages: 308
Published: 2008-12
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0801445434
ISBN-13: 9780801445439
American colleges and universities simultaneously face large numbers of faculty retirements and expanding enrollments. Budget constraints have led colleges and universities to substitute part-time and full-time non-tenure-track faculty for tenure-track faculty, and the demand for faculty members will likely be high in the decade ahead. This heightened demand is coming at a time when the share of American college graduates who go on for PhD study is far below its historic high. The declining interest of American students in doctoral programs is due to many factors, including long completion ti
Author: Gordon B. Davi
Publisher: Barron’s Educational Serie
Keywords: dissertation, doctoral, writing
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 1997-06-03
List price: $11.95
ISBN-10: 0812098005
ISBN-13: 9780812098006
Here is the first book a prospective doctoral candidate should read. Updated to reflect both modern technological advances and the realities of contemporary academia, it serves as an excellent overview of the dissertation process in most academic fields. Advice starts with selecting an advisor and a dissertation committee, then covers problems connected with selecting a dissertation topic, submitting the proposal, working with an advisor, and writing and defending the dissertation.
Author: Warren S. Wooster
Publisher: National Academy Press
Keywords: oceanography, scientists, doctoral
Number of Pages: 156
Published: 1981-07-03
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0309031338
ISBN-13: 9780309031332
Author: David Sternberg
Publisher: St. Martin’s Griffi
Keywords: dissertation, doctoral, survive, complete
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 1981-06-15
List price: $17.99
ISBN-10: 0312396066
ISBN-13: 9780312396060
Mastering these skills spells the difference between "A.B.D." and "Ph.D." -refuting the magnum opus myth -coping with the dissertation as obsession (magnificent or otherwise) -the fine art of selecting a topic -writing the dissertation with publication in mind -when to stand your ground and when to prudently retreat if the committee’s conception of your thesis differs substantially from your own -dealing with obstructive committee members, and keeping the fences mended -how to reconsider "negative" findings as useful data -reviewing your progress, and getting out of the "dissertation dum
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Publisher: University of Washington Press
Keywords: education, worldwide, doctoral, forms, phd, forces, global
Number of Pages: 344
Published: 2008-04
List price: $30.00
ISBN-10: 0295988029
ISBN-13: 9780295988023
Universities and nations have long recognized the direct contribution of graduate education to the welfare of the economy by meeting a range of research and employment needs. With the burgeoning of a global economy in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, the economic outcome of doctoral education reaches far beyond national borders. Many doctoral programs in the United States and throughout the world are looking for opportunities to equip students to work in transnational settings, with scientists and researchers located across the globe. Nations competing within this global economy often
Author:
Publisher: Stylus Publishing
Keywords: models, improving, outcomes, new, criteria, doctoral, education, emerging, assessment
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2006-10
List price: $27.50
ISBN-10: 1579221793
ISBN-13: 9781579221799
Following the growing commitment to assessment at the undergraduate level, doctoral programs are now grappling with what accountability means for them.This book provides a foundation for faculty and academic leaders of doctoral programs to promote inquiry into the educational practices that define their programs and contribute to graduate students’ learning. It presents an array of examples of new program- and student-level assessment practices. The ideas and practices described here expand program review to include evidence of student learning--that is, students’ demonstration of
Author: Kevin Holmes
Publisher: IBFD Publications,The Netherlands
Keywords: analysis, doctoral, disciplinary, multi, income, concept
Number of Pages: 614
Published: 2001-03
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 9076078378
ISBN-13: 9789076078373
