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Three magic letters : getting to Ph.D. / Michael T. Nettles and Catherine M. Millett.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nettles, Michael T., 1955-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Doctor of philosophy degree--United States.
- Doctor of philosophy degree.
- United States.
- Doctor of philosophy degree--United States--Statistics.
- Graduate students--United States.
- Graduate students.
- Educational surveys--United States.
- Educational surveys.
- Genre:
- Statistics.
- Physical Description:
- xxxi, 329 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006.
- 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.
- Contents:
- A map from the past to the present
- Context, trends, and conceptual framework for research
- Survey design and research logistics
- Demographics of the sample
- Admissions and screening
- Financing a doctoral education
- Socialization
- Research productivity
- Satisfaction, performance, and progress
- Rate of progressm completion, and time to degree
- Predicting experiences and performance
- Interpreting field differences
- Group-specific implications
- The doctoral student experience : new answers and new questions.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [309]-320) and index.
- ISBN:
- 080188232X
- OCLC:
- 58451693
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