A Data-Based Assessment of Research-Doctorate Programs in the United States (with CD) (2011) / Chapter Skim
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Furthermore, in an illustrative manner, the assessment analyzes and combines these data to create two ranges of rankings based on overall measures of program quality that were derived from faculty perceptions of program quality approached in two different ways. The National Research Council has a tradition of conducting careful assessments of doctoral education in the United States.
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DESIGN OF THE STUDY 7 National Research Council, Research Doctorate Programs in the United States: Continuity and Change (Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press, 1995)
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Because interdisciplinarity is an issue of increasing importance for doctoral programs, the program questionnaire gathered data to address this issue by counting faculty from outside the program who were engaged in supervising dissertations and by asking directly whether the program was considered to be interdisciplinary. The faculty questionnaire collected data on funding, work history, and publications, as well as on demographic characteristics.
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from the relative importance of weights calculated from answers to the faculty questionnaire, and (2) from taking a sample of programs and faculty in each field and statistically deriving weights for each variable from the faculty's response to a rating questionnaire.11 Both of these approaches reflect faculty values, which are discussed in Chapter 5.
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Faculty appear to not assign as much importance to program size when assigning weights directly as when assigning them indirectly based on their rating of programs. Program size, while not likely to be a direct cause of higher program quality, may serve as a surrogate for other program features that do exert positive influences on quality.
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They often do not, however, have shorter median times to degree. Based on data from the National Science Foundation Survey of Doctorate Recipients, the committee found that less than 50 percent of Ph.D.'s in each broad field has definite plans to seek an academic position or postdoctoral study in academia.
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The proceedings of this workshop will be published as a workshop report and will expand on the descriptive summary discussion provided in this report. Whatever their interest, all users will find that they have access to information about doctoral programs that was not available in the past.
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