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Francis, Annie M.; Klein, L. B.; Thomas, Sharon Holmes; Kainz, Kirsten; Blank Wilson, Amy – Journal of Social Work Education, 2022
Research evaluating holistic admission practices in social work doctoral programs is nascent. This systematic literature review aims to answer two questions: What holistic admissions practices exist in U.S. graduate education? and Are these practices effective in increasing racial and ethnic diversity? In September 2019 we conducted searches of…
Descriptors: College Admission, Doctoral Programs, Social Work, Ethnic Diversity
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Lehan, Tara J.; Hussey, Heather D.; Hotz, Thomas – Current Issues in Education, 2021
Online doctoral students may be at especially high risk for not completing their program. The purpose of this paper is to synthesize and critically analyze the body of research examining factors associated with persistence among online doctoral students, a relatively understudied population. Consistent with the notion that integration and…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Distance Education, Academic Persistence, Doctoral Students
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Chipere, Ngoni – International Journal on E-Learning, 2015
The objectives of the study were to identify best practices in online doctoral programming and to synthesise these practices into a framework for developing online doctoral programmes. The field of online doctoral studies is nascent and presents challenges for conventional forms of literature review. The literature was therefore reviewed using a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Best Practices, Online Courses, Electronic Learning