Beginning Graduate School: Explaining First‐Year Doctoral Attrition

Golde, Chris M.

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“…It is a process not only focused on developing the practice of research, but also the development of an identity within a particular field (Golde, 1998).…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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Visualising the Doctoral Research Process: An Exploration into Empirical Research Processes of Emerging Researchers

Sim

Butson²

2017

IJLTER

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Abstract. The completion of a doctoral programme requires a fundamental knowledge of the research process. It is assumed and expected by academic staff that PhD students are aware of the research process prior to undertaking doctoral research. This study addresses the degree to which these assumptions are valid, by investigating doctoral students" understanding and practices of doctoral research. Nine doctoral students, at various phases of their dissertation and from different discipline backgrounds, were asked to illustrate, through diagrams, the processes involved in their doctoral research. They were invited to discuss their illustrated ideas and explain in more detail the processes and practices they employed, including the role of technology. The findings revealed a variety of processes characterised as: a) Linear vs. Non-linear; b) Traditional vs. Non-traditional; c) Simple vs. Complicated. In addition, the students exhibited diverse styles of presenting the research process through: 1) the way they started their research; 2) the language they used to describe the process; and 3) the linearity and complexity of their doctoral research. The paper concludes with a number of important insights with regard to the student"s perceptions and practices of undertaking doctoral research. Confusion in these areas is a matter that directly affects the outcome of the dissertation as well as the PhD student"s future research practices.

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“…It is a process not only focused on developing the practice of research, but also the development of an identity within a particular field (Golde, 1998).…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Visualising the Doctoral Research Process: An Exploration into Empirical Research Processes of Emerging Researchers

Sim

Butson²

2017

IJLTER

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“…For instance isolation (Gardner & Holley, 2011), stress due to lack of adequate tutor support (Golde, 1998;Seagram, Gould, & Pyke, 1998), cultural barriers (McAlpine, Paulson, Gonsalves, & Jazvac-Martek, 2012), financial issues (Moyer & Salovey, 1999), struggles due to family lives (Offerman, 2011), lack of adequate balancing of family and worklife (Brus, 2006) have been identified as challenges in literature. In addition, challenges arise because of lack of adequate social support from family members or fellow peers.…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Qualitative Examination of Challenges Influencing Doctoral Students in an Online Doctoral Program

Deshpande

2016

IES

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The main purpose of the study was to investigate the challenges faced by students in completion of an online doctoral program at the University of Liverpool, Online Doctoral Business Administration program. We analyse the responses of 91 doctoral students in an online DBA program. Based on the exploratory qualitative study themes were developed based on student perceptions. Various themes identified were course structure and workload, resources, absence of human interaction, technological challenges, support systems, and satisfaction with instructor and quality of instruction. Discussion, Implications and avenues for future research are presented.

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“…Perhaps half of all doctoral students do not complete their studies (Lovitts, 2001) and some of these are likely to produce publications before switching to a different career. Failure to complete a doctorate is not necessarily a career failure because the student may leave after realising that a PhD will not help them to get the job that they want (Golde, 1998). A survey of US doctorate recipients in 2000 found that just over half of those that were US citizens intended to work in higher education (Hoffer, Dugoni, Sanderson, Sederstrom, Ghadialy, & Rocque, 2001).…”

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Long term productivity and collaboration in information science

Levitt

Thelwall

2016

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Funding bodies have tended to encourage collaborative research because it is generally more highly cited than sole author research. But higher mean citation for collaborative articles does not imply collaborative researchers are in general more research productive. This article assesses the extent to which research productivity varies with the number of collaborative partners for long term researchers within three Web of Science subject areas: Information Science & Library Science, Communication and Medical Informatics. When using the whole number counting system, researchers who worked in groups of 2 or 3 were generally the most productive, in terms of producing the most papers and citations. However, when using fractional counting, researchers who worked in groups of 1 or 2 were generally the most productive. The findings need to be interpreted cautiously, however, because authors that produce few academic articles within a field may publish in other fields or leave academia and contribute to society in other ways

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Beginning Graduate School: Explaining First‐Year Doctoral Attrition

Abstract: A graduate student's decision not to continue in an initial program is that student's answer to one or more questions.

Cited by 284 publications

References 3 publications

Visualising the Doctoral Research Process: An Exploration into Empirical Research Processes of Emerging Researchers

Visualising the Doctoral Research Process: An Exploration into Empirical Research Processes of Emerging Researchers

A Qualitative Examination of Challenges Influencing Doctoral Students in an Online Doctoral Program

Long term productivity and collaboration in information science

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