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Shih, Jeffrey C.; Reys, Robert E.; Reys, Barbara J.; Engledowl, Christopher – Investigations in Mathematics Learning, 2020
This article focuses on the career paths in higher education taken by 351 doctoral graduates in mathematics education and provides insight into their career path and their resulting workload. Because some of the sample is drawn from graduates of programs with NSF funding related to doctoral preparation, it represents a best-case scenario of…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Doctoral Programs, Career Development, Mathematics Education
Harker Martella, Lindsay Nicole – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Student persistence problems have arisen in the past 30 years due to the rapid growth of online higher education degree programs in the United States. Current literature has studied online undergraduate student persistence in-depth, but there has been little research to uncover the issues facing online graduate students. Given that online…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Distance Education, Online Courses, Academic Persistence
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Lunsford, Laura – Mentoring & Tutoring: Partnership in Learning, 2012
This study investigated the extent to which doctoral advisors provided mentoring to their students and if mentor support influenced doctoral student outcomes. Survey results from 477 respondents, across disciplines at two universities, indicated that most students believed mentoring was important and over half of them received mentoring support…
Descriptors: Mentors, Outcomes of Education, Doctoral Programs, Graduate Students