Making the implicit explicit : creating performance expectations for the dissertation /
Despite their and other stakeholders' consistent demand for excellence, doctoral programs have rarely, if ever, been assessed in terms of the quality of the dissertations departments produce. Yet dissertations provide the most powerful, objective measure of the success of a department's do...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Sterling, Va. :
Stylus,
2007.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- Part one: The dissertation and its assessment
- Judging dissertations
- Achieving excellence
- Universal qualities of a dissertation
- Disciplinary approaches to doctoral training and the development of a dissertation
- Converting performance expectations into rubrics
- Conclusions, implications, and recommendations
- Part two: The disciples
- The biology dissertation
- The physics dissertation
- The electrical and computer engineering dissertation
- The mathematics dissertation
- The economics dissertations
- The psychology dissertation
- The sociology dissertation
- The English dissertation
- The history dissertation
- The philosophy dissertation
- Appendix A: List of participating universities, deans, coordinators, and facilitators
- Appendix B: Details on the study's methodology.
