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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"doctoral candidates"”.
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Retention and Attrition of Doctoral Candidates in Higher Education
… the body of knowledge concerning attrition for doctoral students, especially those who have attained the level of “all but dissertation” (ABD), is limited. The purpose of this research was to examine retention and attrition factors of doctoral candidates from a typical Higher Education Doctoral …
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Influences to Post-graduation Career Aspirations and Attainment in STEM Doctoral Candidates and Recipients
… on career aspiration and attainment among doctoral degree holders. This study utilized the socialization theory framework to identify aspects of the doctoral education process that are predictive of the likelihood of certain career aspirations among science and engineering doctoral …
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An interpretative phenomenological analysis of the lived experiences of non-native English-speaking doctoral candidates in the successful completion of study
The slow completion of doctoral degrees is a serious concern; for students, supervisors, departments, institutions and economies. Themes such as the supervisor relationship have been well documented, however, there is a paucity of literature on the underlying, often hidden reasons for slow …
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Supporting African American involvement in a doctoral program at a regional comprehensive university: a research study of the experiences and perceptions of African American current doctoral candidates and African American doctorates
… voice" to African American doctorates, current doctoral students, and doctoral students who chose not to complete the doctoral educational leadership program at a regional comprehensive university in a Mid-Atlantic State (Allen, 1992, 2000; Delgado, 1995; Freeman, 1997; Soloranzo & Yosso, 2000, …
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Doctoral students’ career decision-making process: comparing faculty and non-faculty careers from socio-cognitive and contextual perspectives
Minimal extant research on doctoral students’ career development prohibits the customization of career preparation that is necessary to prepare them with competencies for achieving their career goals. Such research is particularly urgent as current academic job markets shift career placement …
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A Three Part Dissertation: Evaluating A High School District Extended-period Mathematics Program Using Frequent, Unannounced, Focused, And Short Classroom Observations To Support Classroom Instruction Utilizing Classroom Observations To Inform Teaching And Learning: A Policy Advocacy Document
… University (NLU) Educational Leadership (EDL) Doctoral Program. The National Louis Educational Leadership Ed.D is a professional practice degree program (Shulman, Golde, Bueschel, & Garabedian, 2006). For the dissertation requirement, doctoral candidates are required to plan, research, and …
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Self-efficacy, Locus of Control, Perceived Stress and Student Satisfaction as Correlates of Dissertation Completion
<p>Purpose of the Study</p> <p>Doctoral students face a multitude of challenges in the process of completing their degree, and barriers to the success of doctoral program completion can occur at many different levels. Many factors contribute to dissertation completion or non-completion. Studying …
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Barriers to Completion of the Doctoral Degree in Educational Administration
… study is to examine the reasons for attrition of doctoral candidates in the College of Human Resources and Education in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. Graduate students granted candidacy status have fulfilled the …
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Free movement of scientists within the European Research Area: an analysis of the Cypriot research market
… of EU and non-EU scientists, researchers and doctoral candidates within the European Research Area (ERA), focusing on the legal and policy framework of Cyprus. This work is at the intersection of the ERA framework, the Area of Freedom Security and Justice and the free movement of workers. The …
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Language of Exclusion: A Mixed Method Evaluation of Text Complexity on Comprehension Within Selected U.S. Government Food Assistance Application Materials
… literacy learners and six adult residential doctoral candidates on selected national government food assistance applications. Data collection and analysis techniques are appropriate for each phase’s paradigm. Meta inferences are explored, and the knowledge is used to create recommendations …
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Disciplinary variation in academic writing : a corpus study of PhD theses in English language and literature
… ways, the present research examines the genre of doctoral thesis, which is generally regarded as a graduate’s first contribution to scholarship. This investigation therefore addresses two gaps in the existing literature on academic discourse analysis by investigating a genre and two disciplines …
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Attitudes Toward Psychological Tele-Health: Current and Future Psychologists' Opinions of Internet-Based Interventions
… and future clinicians (current Ph.D. or Psy.D. doctoral candidates) to explore differences in their acceptance of tele-health therapeutic interventions. An online survey was created to assess such attitudes across various domains of tele-health, as well as assess acceptance or rejection of such …
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Who Gets to Be Taken Seriously? Three Atypical Scholars Navigate Doctoral Education at the Intersections of Race, Neurodivergence, and Veteran Identity
… veteran, I entered the University of San Diego's doctoral program having had experiences that most institutional intake processes would label as risk factors. The Findings chapter of this dissertation begins by describing those experiences—not as a confession, but as the foundation for a …
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Mentoring in Nursing Doctoral Education: Processes, Perceptions, Problems and Prospects
… described the mentoring relationship between doctoral nursing students and their committee chairs. Twenty-two public university doctoral programs responded to a request for names and addresses of their doctoral candidates. The Major Professor Mentoring Scale was used to measure the mentoring …