The Path to the Ph.D. Measuring Graduate Attrition in the Sciences and Humanities (1996) / Chapter Skim
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APPENDIX A
APPENDIX A
Pages 45-74
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If more than one survey is included in the data base, each is described. The description includes information on survey methodology, population base, sampling procedure, and response rate.
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Beginning with the early 198Os, minority enrollments have been collected for three major fields plus "other." Beg=iing wig the 1993-94 academic year, field breakouts expanded to 20 for total enro~nents/degrees granted and for foreign enrolEnents/degrees. Ethnic-minority student enrollments/ degrees granted remain as three breakout fields plus "other." Contact: Nick CIaudy Tel: (703)
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Many of its surveys dealing with graduate education and degrees are longterm annual surveys that began in the 1960s. · SURVEY OF ENROLLMENTS AND DEGREES Both astronomy and physics departments are surveyed, and the survey results are displayed in three reports: Enrollments and Degrees Report, Bachelor's Degree Recipients Report, and Graduate Student Report.
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or foreign, temporary or potentially permanent, type of employer, principal work activity, use of physics/astronomy training in job, date current employment began, and annual salary.
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Use of physics or astronomy training in work activity, principal activity, annual salary, and whether fixture graduate study is planned in one year or possibly later (and, if so, in what discipline)
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Follow-up surveys were conducted periodically through 1975. On the ~ Iyear follow-up, overall response rates averaged 23 percent, while response rates for targeted follow-up samples averaged 77 percent.
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The survey did not include information on graduate students prior to ~ 970 when questions on enrollments by course, departmental size and teaching load were added. The annual survey-carried out by AMS for itself, the Mathematical Association of America, and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics now requests the total enrollment in undergraduate and graduate mathematical sciences courses.
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, enrollments by sex, race, Latino origin, citizenship, and school. Departments awarding graduate degrees report graduate student admissions, acceptances, enrollments, and degree awards.
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1989-90 Survey: Departmental characteristics, degrees awarded, and detail of program subfields offered. Students enrolled by year in program, attendance status, and financial support.
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Degrees awarded, by level, and for doctorates by type of Melee (Ph.D., Psy.D., Ed.D.~. Graduate enrolLnents In doctoral programs by attendance status.
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Educational: Baccalaureate institution, admission decision, enrollment decision, enrollment status, candidacy status, GRE scores, financial aid data. · AVAILABILITY Annual reports to participating institutions, allowing comparisons with other institutions of similar characteristics and special topic reports and bulletins.
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Science and engineering graduate students with federal support are compared with S/E Ph.D. awards, by field, for the years 1966-1984.
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The survey is sent at the begs ng of the fall semester and usually results in a response rate above 90 percent. Changes in the questionnaire, response rate, and survey methodology over the years have rendered historical comparisons somewhat problematic, but they are still useful in certain cases.
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Discipline data are grouped into nine broad fields plus "other." Trends in graduate enrollment and degrees since 1986 are reported in addition to the single-year data. · AVAILABILITY Survey results are published in the annual Graduate Enroliment and Degrees which is available from CGS.
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. In 1984, NORC conducted the Postsecondary Education Transcript study, collecting transcripts Tom academic and vocational postseconda~y institutions attended by respondents.
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The Postseconda~y Transcript Study contains records for 12,599 individuals who entered and/or completed college or other kinds of postseconda~y schools within 12 years of high school graduation. Although OERI would like to survey this group again at age 40, fiends are not currently available HIGH SCHOOL AND BEYOND This survey began in 1980 by surveying 28,000 high school seniors and 30,000 sophomores.
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219-15X7 ~mail: Roslyn_Korb~ed.gov · INTEGRATED POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION DATA SYSTEM NCES has established the Intearated Postsecondary Education Data System pPEDS) as its core postsecondary education data collection program.
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Salaries, Tenure, and Fringe Benefits of Full-Time Instructional Faculty: Full-time instructional faculty by rank, sex, tenure status, length of contract, salaries, and fiinge benefits. Data are collected annually.
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Dial-in users can access much of the same information through the OER] Toll-Free Electronic Bulletin Board which provides on-line access to statistical data research findings, information about Department of Education programs, and, in some cases, filet texts of departmental documents.
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, sex, and fine field. In past oddnumbered years-1976-77 through 198889 the degree survey included the race/ ethnicity of recipients in 30 broad fields.
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· DATA Demographic data include age, sex, race/ethnicity, marital status, and number of dependents. Education data include degree, major field of study, financial aid received, farther education aspirations.
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It continues to provide cross-sectional information one year after bachelor's degree completion (comparable to the Recent College Graduate Survey) as well as longitudinal data concerning entry into and progress through graduate-level education and the work force.
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Student Record Abstract: Indicates major field of study, type and control of institution, financial aid, cost of attendance, family income, sex, and race/ethnicity. Student Interview: Includes undergraduate and major GPA, date of first enrollment, financial aid, loan burden for undergraduate education, activities related to selection and enter into Valuate school, activities related to obtaining employment after graduation, qualifications to teach current marital status, employment and income, demographic information, college experiences, and fixture expectations.
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for decades before rising during the past decade. Also included are data relating to approximately 8,000 individuals who were graduate students when they entered the data base and for whom there is no record of Ph.D.
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Response rates for those who were contacted was 53.3 percent for former Bunting Fellows and Finalists; 60.6 percent for fanner NSF Fellows (62. ~ percent for men and 55.6 percent for women)
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Present employment status, type of organization, name of employer, location, date and month began, type of position held, academic rank, if any. Tenured, tenure track, or outside traditional academic structure, and year tenure received.
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institution by broad field and gender; arid institutional sources of doctorates by state and broad field. There are also two trend appendix tables that present data for the most recent 10-year period: number of Ph.D.s by fine field and number of doctorates by gender, race/ethnicity, and citizenship status.
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Current employer (name, location, type of organization) , employment field, reason for non-science employment, faculty rank and tenure status, primely and secondary work activity, years of work experience, sources of federal support, energy-related work experience, and annual salary.
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Estimates for the remaining master's granting institutions were made and then re-estimated in 1988 on the basis of 1983 and 19SS data. · DATA Number of graduate students in the department by attendance status, detailed form and source of support, sex, first year versus all years, race/ethnicity, and citizenship.
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The response rates over the last two survey cycles have been over 85 percent. · DATA Demographic: Sex, date and place of birth, citizenship and visa status, race/ethnicity, marital status, children under and over the age of six, and type of physical disability~ies)
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