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Gardner, S. K. (2009). Conceptualizing success in doctoral education: Perspectives of faculty in seven disciplines. The Review of Higher Education, 32(3), 383-406. doi: 10.1353/rhe.0.0075
This study was carried out to understand the concept of success in the context of doctoral education. According to the author, the conceptualisation of success in doctoral education remains elusive. Does is it mean achieving a high grade point average or completing the degree? Does it mean perseverance from year to year? Is it dependent on discipline? What is the difference between a successful student and an unsuccessful one? Through in-depth interviews with 38 members of faculty drawn from seven disciplines at a research university in southern United States, the author sought to answer these questions. The study particularly sought to understand how the conceptualisation of success in doctoral education is influenced by the culture and context of discipline. The findings of the study established that disciplinary context and culture significantly shaped how members of faculty understood doctoral student success. More specifically, there were marked differences in conceptualisations of success between departments with the highest and lowest rates of doctoral degree completion. In departments with high completion rates, faculty members described high self-direction among students, research dissemination, as well as a culture of caring, cohesion, and mutual respect as important for success in doctoral education. On the other hand, faculty members in departments with low completion rates associated success with hard work. For all departments, employment prospects and institutional support were described as important drivers of doctoral student success. A major strength of this study is its qualitative nature. It provides an in-depth understanding of doctoral student success conceptualisation amongst faculty members. The insights of the study could be valuable in addressing the problem of attrition amongst doctoral students. Even so, generalising the findings beyond the setting of the study may be difficult due to the size of the sample used.
Smith, A. E., & Hatmaker, D. M. (2014). Knowing, doing, and becoming: Professional identity construction among public affairs doctoral students. Journal of Public Affairs Education, 20(4), 545-564.
Smith & Hatmaker sought to examine how socialisation and professional identity development occurs among doctoral students pursuing research...
Nursing -- Annotated Bibliography Annotated Bibliography Case, Bette. (1996). Breathing AIR into adult learning. Journal of Continuing Education in Nursing, 27(4), 148-158. Bette Case reviews an organizational scheme for adult learning called 'AIR', short for active involvement, individual differences, and relevance and motivation. Of the three learning strategies, active involvement is given the most attention. Active involvement seems to capture any learning technique that empowers the students and moves beyond the traditional didactic
Sports Psychology and the self-Esteem of high school football players. Sports psychology: Annotated bibliography Cox, R.H., & Yoo, H.S. (1995). Playing position and psychological skill in American football. Journal of Sport Behavior, 18(3), 183 The Journal of Sports Behavior is a peer-reviewed journal focused upon research in sports psychology and its articles are not directed towards a popular audience. According to Cox & Yoo (1995) in this early study of the sports psychology
Prison overcrowding is one of the major issues that have faced the criminal justice system for more than two decades now. It has grown to be an elusive phenomenon that has raised significant concerns of the local and international actors. The increasing population of the prisoners poses various challenges, including policy, financial, and health implications, thereby, the need for the adoption of responsive strategies to curb its effects. Among the
Annotated BibliographyOriginal Research Question: Did implementing remote and virtual front desk services, including live representatives via webcam, impact staffing efficiency for underserved patients, especially patients with English as their second language in FQHCs post-pandemic?Revised Research Question: Did implementing telehealth improve staffing efficiency and delivery of care to underserved populations in FQHCs post-pandemic?Auchus, I., Jaradeh, K., Tang, A., Marzan, J., & Boslett, B. (2021). Transitioning to Telehealth during the COVID-19 Pandemic:
Performance Management Strategies Used by Organizations in the Private and Public Sectors Having already established the importance of performance management to an organization's overall strategy, it makes sense to use the final project to gain insight into the specific strategies used by organizations in executing their performance management plans. Rather than take a general approach, however, the researcher will focus on comparing the PM strategies used by profit-motivated organizations with
Academic Honesty in Nursing Profession: Annotated Bibliography Kececi, A., Bulduk, S., Oruc, D. & Celik, S. (2011). Academic Dishonesty among Nursing Students: A Descriptive Study. Nursing Ethics 18(5) 725-733 This cross-sectional, descriptive research's objective is assessment of academic dishonesty in Turkish university-level nursing students. The sample size for this research was 196 students. Data collection employed two instruments, which, on an average, could be completed in about 10 to 15 minutes: 1)
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