基本説明
Provides a compelling portrait of the graduate school experience and identifies key issues affecting the success and failure of doctoral students.
Full Description
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
List of Figures
List of Tables
Preface
Acknowledgments
1. A Map from the Past to the Present
2. Context, Trends, and Conceptual Framework for Research
3. Survey Design and Research Logistics
4. Demographics of the Sample
5. Admissions and Screening
6. Financing a Doctoral Education
7. Socialization
8. Research Productivity
9. Satisfaction, Performance, and Progress
10. Rate of Progress, Completion, and Time to Degree
11. Predicting Experiences and Performance
12. Interpreting Field Differences
13. Group-Specific Implications
14. The Doctoral Student Experience: New Answers and New Questions
Afterword
Appendix A: Criteria and Broad Major Fields Used in This Study
Appendix B: Social and Academic Outcomes of Doctoral Students in the Biological and Physical Sciences
Appendix C: Survey of Doctoral Student Finances, Experiences, and Achievements
Appendix D: Methodology
Appendix E: Differential Effects of Attendance at Historically Black Colleges and Universities
Appendix F: Predicting Experiences and Performance Regression Tables
Appendix G: Graduate Record Examination Scores: Missing Data and Distributions
References
Index
