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On Time to the Doctorate : a Study of the Lengthening Time to Completion for Doctorates in Science and Engineering.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Washington :
National Academies Press,
1900.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- ""On Time to the Doctorate""; ""Copyright""; ""Preface""; ""Contents""; ""Executive Summary""; ""FINDINGS""; ""Trends in TTD""; ""Trends in Components of TTD""; ""Modeling TTD""; ""CONCLUSIONS""; ""1 What has been Happening to Time to the Doctorate?""; ""COMPONENTS OF TIME TO THE DOCTORATE AND HOW THEY HAVE CHANGED THROUGH TIME""; ""The Several Kinds of Time""; ""Mean Total Time to the Doctorate""; ""Mean Time Spent Prior to Graduate Entrance""; ""Mean Registered Time to the Doctorate""; ""Mean Time Spent Away from the University""; ""Summary""
- ""THE NATURE AND SIGNIFICANCE OF THE TIME TREND""""The Two Models""; ""Patterns of Change""; ""The Shape of Change""; ""MANPOWER LOSS FROM LENGTHENING TOTAL TIME TO THE DOCTORATE""; ""2 Models of the Factors that Affect Student Choice and Time to the Doctorate: A Literature Survey""; ""LITERATURE ON PERSISTENCE AND ATTRITION""; ""LITERATURE ON EDUCATIONAL ASPIRATIONS""; ""LITERATURE ON ENROLLMENTS""; ""LITERATURE ON EXPECTED RETURNS""; ""LITERATURE ON TTD""; ""SUMMARY""; ""3 A Model of the Determinants of TTD""; ""THE MODEL""; ""THE CRITICAL ROLE OF OPPORTUNITY COSTS""
- ""FINANCIAL AID AND ITS IMPACT ON COMPLETION TIMES""""The Impact of Type of Aid""; ""Effects on the Components of TTD""; ""MARKET FORCES AND COMPLETION TIMES""; ""Effects of Changes in Relative Salaries""; ""Effects of Employment Opportunities""; ""Effects on the Components of TTD""; ""THE VARIABLES USED TO DEVELOP THE MODEL""; ""4 The Relationship Between the Five Vectors of Variables and TTD and its Components: A Comparison of Zero-Order Correlations""; ""THE IMPORTANCE OF DISAGGREGATION BY FIELD""; ""CHANGES IN FAMILY BACKGROUND CHARACTERISTICS""; ""CHANGES IN STUDENT ATTRIBUTES""
- ""CHANGES IN TUITION AND FINANCIAL AID""""CHANGES IN INSTITUTIONAL ENVIRONMENT""; ""CHANGES IN MARKET FORCES""; ""Salary Variables""; ""Employment Indicator Variables""; ""THE STOCK VARIABLE""; ""THE ZERO-ORDER CORRELATION OF THE VECTORS""; ""SUMMARY""; ""5 Changes in TTD""; ""COMMON VARIABLES MODEL""; ""Log Linear Equations""; ""Weaknesses of the Common Variables Model""; ""UNIQUE VARIABLES MODEL""; ""SUMMARY OF FINDINGS""; ""Limitations of the Analysis""; ""What Can Be Learned from the Findings?""
- ""6 Changes in Registered Time to the Doctorate, Time Prior to Graduate Entrance, and Time Enrolled in the University""""REGISTERED TIME TO THE DOCTORATE""; ""RTD in the Common Variables Model Using Linear and Log Linear Equations""; ""RTD in the Unique Variables Model""; ""Evaluation of the Results""; ""TIME SPENT PRIOR TO GRADUATE SCHOOL ENTRANCE (TPGE)""; ""TIME NOT ENROLLED IN THE UNIVERSITY (TNEU)""; ""SUMMARY OF THE FINDINGS""; ""7 Past as Prologue""; ""WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO TIME TO THE DOCTORATE?""; ""Total Time to the Doctorate""; ""Registered Time to the Doctorate""