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9780801882326

Three Magic Letters : Getting to Ph. D.

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  • ISBN13:

    9780801882326

  • ISBN10:

    080188232X

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2006-01-24
  • Publisher: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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Summary

Drawing on the largest survey of doctoral students ever conducted, Three Magic Letters provides a compelling portrait of the graduate school experience and identifies key issues affecting the success and failure of doctoral students. Michael T. Nettles and Catherine M. Millett surveyed more than nine thousand students from the top twenty-one doctorate-granting institutions in the United States. Their findings, based on rational analysis of a vast amount of descriptive data, shed light on multiple factors critical to the progression of the doctoral degree, particularly adequate institutional funding and engaged and accessible faculty mentors. This comprehensive volume will provide faculty chairs, administrators, and students with information and evidence for assessing their policies, practices, and programs to improve the graduate school experience and the future of the Ph.D.

Author Biography

Michael T. Nettles is the Senior Vice President for Policy Evaluation and Research at the Educational Testing Service in Princeton, New Jersey, and Catherine M. Millett is a research scientist in the Policy Evaluation and Research Center, Educational Testing Service.

Table of Contents

List of Figures ix
List of Tables xi
Preface xv
Acknowledgments xxvii
1 A Map from the Past to the Present
1(6)
2 Context, Trends, and Conceptual Framework for Research
7(25)
3 Survey Design and Research Logistics
32(14)
4 Demographics of the Sample
46(10)
5 Admissions and Screening
56(14)
6 Financing a Doctoral Education
70(19)
7 Socialization
89(15)
8 Research Productivity
104(9)
9 Satisfaction, Performance, and Progress
113(13)
10 Rate of Progress, Completion, and Time to Degree 126(10)
11 Predicting Experiences and Performance 136(46)
12 Interpreting Field Differences 182(26)
13 Group-Specific Implications 208(15)
14 The Doctoral Student Experience: New Answers and New Questions 223(8)
Afterword 231(2)
APPENDIX A. Criteria and Broad Major Fields Used in This Study 233(2)
APPENDIX B. Social and Academic Outcomes of Doctoral Students in the Biological and Physical Sciences 235(2)
APPENDIX C. Survey of Doctoral Student Finances, Experiences, and Achievements 237(28)
APPENDIX D. Methodology 265(9)
APPENDIX E. Differential Effects of Attendance at Historically Black Colleges and Universities 274(3)
APPENDIX F. Predicting Experiences and Performance Regression Tables 277(30)
APPENDIX G. Graduate Record Examination Scores: Missing Data and Distributions 307(2)
References 309(12)
Index 321

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