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4. Quantitative Measures
Pages 25-30

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... These data describe the characteristics of program faculty and students. Examples include: characteristics of students offered admission, information on program selectivity, support available to students, completion rates, time to degree, and demographic characteristics of faculty.
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... Student data requested include characteristics of students offered admission, information on program selectivity, support available to students, completion rates, and time to degree. It also asks whether the program requires a master's degree prior to admission to the doctoral program, since this is a crucial consideration affecting the measurement of time to degree.
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... Library Expenditures: Total library expenditure offends for serials in electronic media from regular institutional budgets and other sources, Electronic Serials such as research grants, special projects, gifts, endowments, andfees for services for the previous academic year. Library Expenditures: Total library expenditure offends for microprint and electronic databases from regular institutional budgets and other Microprint and Electronic sources, such as research grants, special projects, gifts, endowments, and fees for services for the previous academic Databases year.
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... Research, Faculty Mentoring Program Support for Whether the program provides some form of travel support for doctoral students to attend professional meetings. Student Travel to Meetings Teaching Skill Support Whether there is an organized program to help doctoral students improve their teaching skills.
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... Past studies have included data about demographic characteristics and about sources of financial support of Ph.D. recipients drawn from the DRF and about graduate student enrollment collected from the doctoral institutions.
From page 30...
... These comments, some of which are reported above, will be used as background material for the committee that conducts the full study. Draft questionnaires ASSESSING RESEARCH-DOCTORATE PROGRAMS for the full study should be reviewed by a number of institutional researchers from a diverse set of institutions as well as by survey researchers.


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