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Showing 1 to 20 of 44 for “"doctoral education"”.
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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 …
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The Practice of Doctoral Education: A Bourdieusian Analysis of the Socialization of Doctoral Students
Attention to doctoral education from scholars and policy makers has increased dramatically over the last two decades. Recent research on doctoral education has focused on the experiences of doctoral student and on issues related to financial aid, time to degree, completion rates, supervisor …
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From Me to We: An Online Assessment of Interdisciplinary Doctoral Education and Learning Impact
This ethnography studied doctoral students in the. program at a medium sized Midwestern Jesuit University and their perceptions of interdisciplinary education within the framework of an online program. The primary question studied by this ethnography was “how do online doctoral students view …
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Women of Color Collectives in Doctoral Education: How Women of Color Doctoral Students Thrive Together
… the structure of white supremacy in higher education (Gay, 2004; Peña, 2022). However, there is a legacy of Women of Color who have created and continue to create collectives to survive and, more importantly, thrive within academia. This qualitative phenomenological study uses Critical …
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The dreams and promises of the university: Narratives of first-generation students in doctoral education
… the first in their family to undertake higher education imaginings about what the university is, and what it may promise, can be of great importance. In the absence of access to university experience via these individuals' parents and sometimes wider social networks, these imaginings may …
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THE MOTIVATION OF WORKING PRACTITIONERS SEEKING A DOCTORAL EDUCATION: FROM THE PERSPECTIVES OF CONFUCIAN LEARNING PHILOSOPHY
<p>This doctoral study explores the motivational orientations of working practitioners pursuing a professional doctoral program who are former and current DPS-IM program students at Syracuse University, School of Information Studies. The found motivational orientations are compared to Confucian …
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The PhD degree : an investigation into doctoral education in South Africa and international PhD reform initiatives
… has been a surge of debate and reform around doctoral eduction internationally as a result of significant changes in both the global and local contexts within which doctoral education takes place. At the macro level, globalisation and the global economy are redefining what constitutes …
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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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Bridging the gap between undergraduate and doctoral education in STEM: A mixed methods evaluation of the NIH Postbaccalaureate Research Education Program (PREP) at a highly selective private university in the northeast
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2024-12-01
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Chemistry PhD Supervisors in Australia: A Study of the Relationship between their Conceptions of Doctoral Purpose and their Reported Educational Practices
Over the past 30 years, the literature on doctoral education has raised a number of debates about the research doctorate. This has included debates over its purpose and whether its graduates are well prepared to address the diverse and complex problems of today’s workforce. However, scholarly …
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Chemistry PhD Supervisors in Australia: A Study of the Relationship between their Conceptions of Doctoral Purpose and their Reported Educational Practices
Over the past 30 years, the literature on doctoral education has raised a number of debates about the research doctorate. This has included debates over its purpose and whether its graduates are well prepared to address the diverse and complex problems of today’s workforce. However, scholarly …
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The development of a scale to measure doctoral graduate attributes in the South African higher education context
Doctoral education is an area of strategic focus in South Africa. The recent review of doctoral education at South African higher education institutions, and subsequent discussions of the findings, have highlighted doctoral graduate attributes as an area needing substantial focus. This study aimed …
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Historically Marginalized Engineering Doctoral Students' Motivation and Socialization in Graduate Education
Doctoral education in the U.S. is essential to cultivating professionals, scientists, and researchers capable of advancing and contributing to national goals. However, the engineering field warrants diversification to respond to global, social, and demographic demands. It is necessary to support …
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Telling stories: a thematic narrative analysis of eight women's PhD experiences
… of women’s decisions to participate in doctoral education; and secondly, to provide a more in-depth understanding of women’s experiences in undertaking doctoral degrees and the factors that increase their chances of successful completion. Using thematic narrative analysis, the study …
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Exploring First Generation African American Graduate Students: Motivating Factors for Pursuing a Doctoral Degree
… first-generation students to pursue doctoral education at a four-year public university. There has been little research on the influence academic or non-academic factors have on first-generation graduate student motivation. Similarly, little research exists that explored how factors …
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Strategic factors for implementing a multiple career path construction doctoral program: a mixed methods study
… recent literature, a notable percentage of STEM doctoral graduates prefer employment in non-academic career paths such as industry due to diminishing opportunities in academia. However, the doctoral education in the U.S. is designed to prepare graduates to become researchers and teachers for …
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DOES QUALITY MATTER? A LOOK AT QUALITY MATTERS IMPACT ON ONLINE DOCTORAL STUDENTS OF QUALITY ASSURANCE
… purpose of this qualitative study was to analyze doctoral online students’ perceptions of doctoral online learning to ascertain if student views aligned with the Quality Matters (QM) standards. The surveys and interviews that were conducted for this study were used to extrapolate and analyze the …
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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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Creating Industry-Ready Ph.D. Graduates
<p>In the United States, engineering doctoral education is largely designed to prepare graduates to become original researchers and work in an academic or a national lab. Yet, the majority of engineering Ph.D. graduates are being employed in industry. This phenomena leads to the question of how …
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Determining Nurse Practitioner Core Competencies Utilizing A Delphi Approach
<p>Background: Competency-based education (CBE) has been recommended for nurse practitioner (NP) education. To implement CBE, existing NP core competencies need to be reduced in number and refined.</p> <p>Purpose: This study refined and reduced redundancy in the National Organization of Nurse …
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