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Colvin, Tisha Stoll – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The current study explored socialization variables (academic discipline, part-time versus full-time enrollment status, and student involvement with research and teaching assistantships) and educational psychological variables (academic help-seeking attitudes, achievement goal orientations, and dissertation self-efficacy) in relation to…
Descriptors: Help Seeking, Doctoral Dissertations, Self Efficacy, Socialization
Kehrhahn, Marijke T.; Sheckley, Barry G.; Travers, Nancy L. – 1999
This case analysis describes a program to improve the efficiency with which students in the Adult and Vocational Education Ph.D. program at the University of Connecticut work towards and achieve the doctoral degree. Data gathered between 1985 to 1992 indicated students (who were mostly part-time) dropped out at a 50 percent rate and took 7 to 10…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Adult Education, Doctoral Programs, Efficiency