Download or read book DOCTORAL STUDENTS ATTRITION RETENTION RATES MOTIVATION AND FINANCIAL CONSTRAINTS written by Theodore R. Regis and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-11-26 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a compilation of an extensive research. It surrounds ideas from graduate school students who are pursuing their degrees. This book suggests ideas, lesson, and ways to accomplish the task of doctoral studies. Current educational research shows that we are living in the top industrialized country, but we are not educating and graduating enough highly educated people. This book answers the stigmas embedded educational complications many see as simple as motivation, financial burdens, and constraints

Download or read book Doctoral Students Attrition Retention Rates Motivation and Financial Constraints written by Theodore Robert Regis and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2019-10-22 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the past 40 years, American college and university administrators have registered record low retention and high attrition rates. Education experts and researchers have claimed the problems are embarrassing to the United States’ higher education institutions. Based on the problems, graduate school administrators are unable to graduate doctoral students at U.S. population growth rates. Currently, only 1% of Americans hold PhD degrees. Compared to other industrialized countries such as Japan, China, and Mexico, the rate is insignificant. The purpose of the mixed methods case study was to investigate if there was a relationship between motivation and retention rates at the doctoral level. The goal of the study was to determine if extrinsic and intrinsic motivational factors and constraints were associated with persistence in a graduate doctoral program. Data were collected from 193 doctoral and graduate students for the quantitative study, while 20 doctoral and graduate students participated in a qualitative study followed by a thorough semi-structured interview. Inductive and deductive analyses were performed, transcribed, and opened, while axial coding provided emergent themes and sub-themes. The research showed a direct relationship between financial implications, attrition and retention rates, and motivation in doctoral level students. Many doctoral students believed the primary reason they were unable to pursue doctoral programs was based on financial hardship. Doctoral students who responded to the survey added that motivation was the second significant variable that helped them continue their studies.

Download or read book Doctoral Students Attrition Retention Rates Motivation and Financial Constraints written by Theodore Regis and published by . This book was released on 2018-11-28 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a compilation of an extensive research. It surrounds ideas from graduate school students who are pursuing their degrees. This book suggests ideas, lesson, and ways to accomplish the task of doctoral studies. Current educational research shows that we are living in the top industrialized country, but we are not educating and graduating enough highly educated people. This book answers the stigmas embedded educational complications many see as simple as motivation, financial burdens, and constraints. Institutions or the organization should encourage a multicultural educational environment, teaches its patrons civics, history, science, culture, math and a broad range of subjects that clearly will prepare the children for a better tomorrow. Nowadays, we no longer divide by big oceans and tall mountains, the world is open together we share a common goal. As American we live with harmony in one Continent; we have the responsibilities to prepare, educate young people and adults strongly to face the challenge of the twenty first century. My visions are related to the one that has listed above; I am pleased to see one world of progress. The mission that we have is the ethos of movement that we are all related to one human race. I believe every person can learn and every human is precious. Regardless of their background, color, race, creeds, ethnicity, physical impairment, religion, sex, gender, class, neighborhoods, parents' affiliation, political party, and anything else, a child deserved to be taught and deserved respect. Every mind is important (.i.e., Helen Keller). A community that is nurtured by its educators sends signals of a healthy environment. In order for any community to cure its problem education should be the highest priority. Education can change the way people conducted old business. Education can change the world; a community that embraces education is subject to be a better place. To become a better place the community should work together with all stakeholders then create avenues for better learning. There are many challenges that are waiting for the learners ahead. However, life itself is a great challenge, the mission of any institution is to hand all of its students tool to compete and have the students ready to enter a better future. Challenge can come on all forms for example, challenge to study and complete a program. Students face challenges to know technology and compete with the world economy. Without a well rounded, highly qualified, devoted teachers and faculty members, schools would not be able to meet its tasks to educate its population. The main role of a school is to provide quality education to its patrons. Schools and education are connected to enhance human knowledge and possible prepare humans for a better Planet. I believe if the head can help the lower part of a body in the end it whole. I believe I have the highest potential to handle the necessary needs that I can manage as director to help growth. A community cannot exist unless there is effective leadership. Leaders can make a difference in each endeavor that is being undertaken. Environment can be anything from classrooms to the inside campus, the streets, online and far away to the community. Finally, every student can learn when student is given an opportunity to grasp knowledge.

Download or read book Beyond The Pride and The Privilege written by Agustina Purnamasari and published by IAP. This book was released on 2014-11-01 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Attrition among doctoral students has become a perennial issue in higher education (Gardner, 2009; Golde, 2000) as 40 to 60 percent of doctoral students do not complete their program of study (Bair &Haworth, 2005). Such outcomes are inconsistent with the rigorous evaluation that occurs prior to being accepted into a doctoral program (Bair & Haworth, 2005). Despite deemed levels of student excellence, promise and efforts made by programs to counter student departure (Offerman, 2011), attrition rates remain alarmingly high (Bair & Haworth, 2005; Gardner, 2009). The purpose of this book is to provide a view into doctoral student work-lives and their efforts to find a balance between often seemingly conflicting responsibilities. In addition to contributing to the ongoing dialogue on work-life balance in doctoral studies (Brus, 2006; Golde, 1998; Moyer, Salovey, & Casey-Cannon, 1999), the intention of this book is to provide other doctoral students with potential coping mechanisms, guidance, and assurance that they are not alone in this process. Lastly, we anticipate that these doctoral student narratives will help illuminate potential strategies that doctoral programs, departments, and institutions can incorporate in their efforts to help students successfully complete their program of study. As such the intended audience is doctoral students, higher education professionals, faculty members, and educational leaders.

Download or read book A Phenomenological Study of Doctoral Student Attrition in Counselor Education written by John Breckner and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Approximately half of doctoral students will withdraw from study before completing their doctorates (Bair & Haworth, 1999). The author sought to add to the limited literature pertaining to doctoral student attrition specifically in the field of counselor education. Phenomenology grounded the work of obtaining (a) enrollment experiences of students who withdrew from counselor education doctoral programs, and (b) thoughts/emotions associated with withdrawing from study. Findings included an application of doctoral attrition to Tinto's (1975) Interactionalist model, how doctoral attrition continues to be an invisible problem, and recommendations for both doctoral students struggling to persevere and counselor education programs striving to increase retention rates.

Download or read book The Development of Doctoral Students Phases of Challenge and Support written by Susan K. Gardner and published by Jossey-Bass. This book was released on 2009-04-13 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Doctoral students are education in U.S. institutions of higher education to become tomorrow's educators, researchers, leaders, and innovators. Only a little more than 50 percent of all doctoral students will actually complete the degree, however. Understanding the complexity of the doctoral experience may assist in educating these students and ensuring their success. This monograph presents a model of doctoral student development, viewing the experience as three phases of increasing complexity. Using theories developed from psychology, sociology, and education, the monograph provides an overview of doctoral education in the United States and the sources of challenge and support that characterize the doctoral student's experience and development. This is the sixty issue the 34th volume of the Jossey-Bass series ASHE Higher Education Report. Each monograph in the series is the definitive analysis of a tough higher education problem, based on thorough research of pertinent literature and institutional experiences. Topics are identified by a national survey. Noted practitioners and scholars are then commissioned to write the reports, with experts providing critical reviews of each manuscript before publication.

Download or read book The Path to the Ph D written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1997-01-03 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is a growing concern among educators and policymakers about the level of attrition from Ph.D. programs in the sciences and humanities at some U.S. universities. Reliable estimates of graduate student attrition are difficult to obtain, however, because most information comes from the administrative records of individual institutions. This book provides a summary of datasets that could be used to analyze patterns of graduate student attrition and degree completion nationally, along with an analysis of recent studies on the subject. Based on this information, the committee examines the feasibility of designing a system to produce national estimates of graduate student attrition.

Download or read book Doctoral Student Perspectives on Motivation and Persistence written by A. Brooke Boulton and published by . This book was released on 2019-10-10 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Doctoral Student Perspectives on Motivation and Persistence is written by the graduate students in the Education Doctorate program at Winona State University. The student cohort began its work in the summer of 2019.

Download or read book The Effect of Labor Market Conditions and Financial Aid on Doctoral Student Retention written by Frimpomaa Daagye Ampaw and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Keywords: survival analysis, human capital theory, retention, doctoral students.

Download or read book Exploring the Relationship Between Students Sense of Community Student Satisfaction and Doctoral Program Retention written by Adam Roberson and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a study examining the interaction between certain doctoral student engagement indicators (peer, institution, curriculum, faculty, spirituality) and student satisfaction. The scope is to understand if student sense of community is a significant moderator to this interaction in order to address the issue of student attrition. It is important to understand these interactions and the influence of sense of community so that institutions of higher education better analyze student commitment. The outcomes of this study may be used as a means to design and implement engagement strategies that are effective in student retention and completion. Doctoral students were invited through email to participate in a Likert survey comprised of multiple scales measuring the key engagement indicators along with sense of community and student satisfaction. The quantitative results show that engagement is a predictor of satisfaction and, in some cases, is significantly moderated by sense of community. This study supports contemporary research conclusions suggesting that both student engagement and academic communities are paramount to student satisfaction which will ultimately lead to higher rates of retention. Recommendations for future research include determining how online students will be better served through engaging academic communities and strategies designed to enhance the engagement experiences.

Download or read book How to Keep your Doctorate on Track written by Keith Townsend and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2020-03-28 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The path of a doctoral student can feel challenging and isolating. This guide provides doctoral students with key ideas and support to kick-start a doctoral journey, inspire progress and complete their thesis or dissertation. Featuring observations from experienced supervisors, as well as the reflections of current and recent postgraduate researchers, this intimate and entertaining book offers vital insights into the critical moments in any doctoral experience.

Download or read book Leaving the Ivory Tower written by Barbara E. Lovitts and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2002-07-15 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Graduate schools have faced attrition rates of approximately 50 percent for the past 40 years. They have tried to address the problem by focusing on student characteristics and by assuming that if they could make better, more informed admissions decisions, attrition rates would drop. Yet high attrition rates persist and may in fact be increasing. Leaving the Ivory Tower thus turns the issue around and asks what is wrong with the structure and process of graduate education. Based on hard evidence drawn from a survey of 816 completers and noncompleters and on interviews with noncompleters, high- and low-Ph.D productive faculty and Directors of Graduate study, this book locates the root cause of attrition in the social structure and cultural organization of graduate education.

Download or read book Faculty Understandings of Doctoral Student Attrition written by Brian A. Johnston and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the existence of an established and growing body of literature examining the causes of and the possible cures for doctoral attrition, a remarkably small amount of attention has been paid to faculty beliefs and attitudes regarding this phenomenon. Comprehensive survey data regarding the content and nature of these beliefs do not exist, and questions regarding the origins of these beliefs have neither been asked nor answered. This study documents faculty beliefs regarding student attrition from doctoral programs in a systematic and quantitative fashion, and situates these beliefs within a heuristics and biases approach in order to explore certain aspects of this belief structure (Gilovich, Griffin, & Kahneman, 2002; Tversky & Kahneman, 1974). This study was conducted at two separate research universities with high research activity located on the East Coast of the United States. All full-time faculty members directly involved in teaching and advising doctoral students were invited to complete the researcher designed Doctoral Attrition Survey and 233 responded (20.67%). Quantitative data analysis of survey results included descriptive statistics, analysis of variance, t-tests, repeated measures analysis of variance, the Bayesian parameter estimation test (Kruschke, 2013), maximum likelihood factor analysis, and principal axis factor analysis. A number of conclusions can be drawn from the findings of this study. First, this study establishes that faculty members systematically underestimate the amount of attrition which occurs in doctoral program in general as well as the amount which occurs within their own 0́3programs. Faculty who participated in this study estimated an overall doctoral attrition rate of 24% when the true rate has been established at 43% (Council of Graduate Schools, 2008). Faculty similarly underestimate the rate of doctoral attrition within their own programs. Second, this study suggests that faculty perceptions of the amount of attrition which occurs and the timing of that attrition may be influenced by the availability heuristic. With one exception, faculty members estimated significantly higher levels of attrition for phases of study where they spent more time with doctoral students, and significantly lower levels of attrition for phases of study where they spent less time with doctoral students. Third, this study indicates that faculty members use the representativeness heuristic when assessing the chances that individual students will complete a course of doctoral study. Fourth, this study establishes that while faculty understandings of the parameters of doctoral attrition are influenced by cognitive heuristics, faculty conceptualize the underlying causes and factors which influence attrition in a manner consistent with both the theory and the literature on the topic. Finally, this study extends the generalizability of the heuristics and biases approach in general and the representativeness heuristic in particular to a highly educated segment of society: university professors.

Download or read book An Investigation of Candidates Experience of Attrition in a Limited residency Doctoral Program written by Donna Hosie Kennedy and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Approximately 50% of doctoral students in social science, humanities, and educational doctoral programs fail to earn the Ph.D. This number is 10% to 15% higher for students enrolled in online or limited-residency programs. Using in-depth interviewing and qualitative data analysis techniques, this study examined participants' recollections of their experience as students in a limited-residency doctoral program and their reasons for withdrawal. The study addresses the following question "What is the nature of the participants' experiences of doctoral attrition in a limited-residency doctoral program?". The use of a grounded theory analysis helped identify obstacles that ultimately cause students to withdraw from limited-residency programs. The elucidation of these barriers led to the development of a theoretical model comprised of three components; each clarified relationships between attrition and a support issue (i.e., advisor support, dissertation support and program support). These components were then combined into a single theoretical model that identified the nature of participants' experience of attrition. The theoretical model helps identify steps faculty and administration could take in order to reduce attrition. The study's findings are presented in a discussion of themes found throughout the participant's narratives. Recommendations for effective doctoral education practices from existing literature are supported in the findings of this study. The limited-residency doctoral program may consider offering several forms of support to improve doctoral retention. Additionally, the program should give close attention to the relationship between the advisor and the student. Recommendations were made regarding significant program factors, accountability measures for dissertation committees and chairperson, improved monitoring of attrition, and improving the overall communication with the dissertation students. The concluding chapter includes implications of the findings and recommendations for further research regarding doctoral student attrition.

Download or read book The Doctoral StudentOs Advisor and Mentor written by Raymond L. Calabrese and published by R&L Education. This book was released on 2010-08-16 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on using faculty mentoring to empower doctoral students to successfully complete their doctoral studies. The book is a collection of mentoring chapters showcasing professors and dissertation advisors from the most prestigious universities in the United States. They provide an extraordinary range of mentoring advice that speaks directly to the doctoral student. Each chapter addresses a professional or personal component of the doctoral process that represents how these exceptional faculty best mentor their doctoral students. Faculty contributions exemplify diverse perspectives of mentoring: (a) Some faculty are direct and forthright, pointing the mentee toward his/her destination; (b) some faculty share personal experiences-offering mentoring advice from the perspective of someone who traveled a similar path; and (c) some faculty structure a dialogue between the faculty as mentor and you as the doctoral student. In all cases, they open possibilities for achieving success in doctoral studies. Students discover clues to follow during their doctoral journey. Whether the student is just beginning to think about entering a doctoral program, presently taking course studies, under stress, and doesn't know what the future offers, this is an ideal book because it maps the entire doctoral process.

Download or read book Ph D Completion and Attrition written by Council of Graduate Schools and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Research Anthology on Doctoral Student Professional Development written by Management Association, Information Resources and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2022-03-11 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The path for doctoral students is laden with obstacles and challenges that can cause students to stumble if they are not prepared for what their future holds. In order to avoid the uncertainty, anxiety, and stress that can consume doctoral students, a comprehensive guide is needed that provides the best practices and strategies to support them in their professional journeys. The Research Anthology on Doctoral Student Professional Development considers the difficulties associated with being a doctoral student such as mental health issues and provides different avenues for success such as mentorship and group study. The text seeks to provide a thorough investigation into what it means to be a doctoral student in order to best prepare potential and current students for what to expect. Moreover, it discusses best practices for developing dissertations. Covering a range of topics such as anxiety, research methods, and dissertations, this major reference work is ideal for researchers, academicians, scholars, practitioners, instructors, and students.