The Part and Parcel of Doctoral Education: A Gap Analysis between the Importance and Satisfaction of the Experience

Ching, Gregory S.; Hu, Yueh-Luen; Roberts, Amy

doi:10.3390/educsci11090481

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“…Research designs include surveys (e.g. Johnston et al 2016, Ching et al 2021, McCray & Joseph-Richard 2021, narrative inquiry (e.g. Brazill 2021) and ethnographic accounts (e.g.…”

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Recontextualising "Doing a doctoral degree" as a social practice complex: Evidence from Malaysia

Rycker

2023

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The current study is part of a longitudinal research project into the relationship between students’ ways of recontextualising their doctoral degree experience and eventual programme completion. Building on earlier findings reported in De Rycker (2014, 2022), the objective is to examine the hidden ontology of “doing a doctoral degree”. The primary data consist in structured interviews conducted with 20 doctoral students at the Universiti Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Using Van Leeuwen’s (2008) socio-semantic model for the critical study of discourse, the analysis of the interviews produced two major empirical findings. First, doctoral students’ discourse is characterised by a strong sense of personal agency but also a lack of specificity and a simplification of the overall practice complex, in which doing research seems to be reduced to mere semiotic actions. Secondly, students construe “doing a doctoral degree” as a mystifying process replete with paradoxes. Further interpretative analysis suggests that semiotic action representations play a significant role as self-enhancing metonyms for “doing research”, helping students to demystify the academic practice and resolve some of its inherent contradictions. Implications for supervisory practice as well as the larger research project will be discussed.

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“…Research designs include surveys (e.g. Johnston et al 2016, Ching et al 2021, McCray & Joseph-Richard 2021, narrative inquiry (e.g. Brazill 2021) and ethnographic accounts (e.g.…”

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confidence: 99%

Recontextualising "Doing a doctoral degree" as a social practice complex: Evidence from Malaysia

Rycker

2023

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Mentoring and Research Self-Efficacy of Doctoral Students: A Psychometric Approach

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Effective mentoring is an integral component of the doctoral dissertation process. This study aimed to determine the psychometric properties of two questionnaires developed to assess research self-efficacy and the mentoring/supervision process. The sample comprised 1265 doctorate students (mean age = 32.36 years; standard deviation = 8.20). Items in both questionnaires had adequate discrimination indexes and principal component analysis supported the unifactorial structure of each questionnaire, with adequate percentages of explained variance (47.5% and 60%, respectively). Reliability was good or excellent: α = 0.71 and α = 0.94. In the research self-efficacy questionnaire, there was a significant interaction between gender and year of doctoral studies. Men had higher scores in the first, second and third years of their doctoral studies than women, but this ranking was reversed for the fourth and fifth years. In the mentoring/supervision questionnaire, PhD students in their first year had a higher score than those in the third, fourth and fifth years, and students in the second year had a higher score than those in the fifth year. Understanding students’ perception of their research self-efficacy and the mentoring process is of great importance given the relationship between the mentoring process and students’ academic performance and personal well-being.

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The Part and Parcel of Doctoral Education: A Gap Analysis between the Importance and Satisfaction of the Experience

Cited by 2 publications

References 60 publications

Recontextualising "Doing a doctoral degree" as a social practice complex: Evidence from Malaysia

Recontextualising "Doing a doctoral degree" as a social practice complex: Evidence from Malaysia

Mentoring and Research Self-Efficacy of Doctoral Students: A Psychometric Approach

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