Online higher education professors may find their teaching approaches conflict with the learning preferences of their globally dispersed students, which can impede academic performance. In this empirical study of 254 international doctorate students (across 23 cultures), a model was developed to assess how learning expectations affected…

What does it mean to use, or do, theory in the scholarship of teaching and learning? The article approaches the question by considering the role of design anthropology in developing studio-based engineering programmes. Central to my discussion within situated contexts of learning is the idea of practice-based exploration conceived as a way of…

This paper addresses the role of engineering PhD education and its relationship to innovation and technology, and the need to reconsider how we educate PhD engineers. Much of the effort on engineering education in the last two decades focused on undergraduate education with a few exceptions that relate to master degree programs. Doctoral education…

Due to a negative stigma that has been established about African Americans, many live their entire lives trying to "refute the degrading, humiliating and offensive racial images and stereotypes" that have plagued their race in scientific fields and in other areas of life. The images that are perpetuated have caused frustration as well as…

This article reports on the development, application and results of a skills evaluation inventory which was specifically designed to provide quantitative feedback on the effects of a three-day residential training course attended by PhD students early in their research careers. The course was developed at Imperial College London, partly in…

Dissertations are products of the places and times in which they are written. For one graduate student, enrolling in the doctoral program at State University of New York (SUNY) Albany, however, not only demonstrated how creative writers, composition teachers and theorists can mix together, but also illustrated that dissertation writing is not a…

Interviews with professors, students, and practicing administrators, and participation in lectures, seminars, and assessment procedures provided the basis for this investigation of educational administration programs at 12 prominent Canadian universities. (Author/IRT)

In spite of the severe changes in the environment of graduate education during the past 5 years, most departments have been able to adjust in ways that allow them to continue their programs. (Author)

This report examines the literature on the graduate student seeking the Ph.D. in the arts and sciences, the claims made about graduate student status, and research supporting or negating such claims. Major findings show that: (1) graduate students are concentrated in prestigious universities and most graduate students receive their undergraduate…

The major aim of this study was to examine commonly stated goals of Ph.D. programs, to test some of the different means used to promote selected objectives, including ones related to college teaching, research, and other significant services, and to assess how much progress the University of Minnesota Graduate School had made in these directions…

The authors offer rebuttal to critics of their earlier article critical of Nova University. (IRT)

The "Ingrowns" are traditional doctoral programs, the "Newcomers" are nontraditional doctoral programs. (IRT)

Application to analysis, planning, and scheduling of dissertation research and writing. (DAG)

Ranks and rates graduate speech communication departments as perceived by members of the Association for Communication Administration and the Speech Communication Association. Includes rankings for the following communication specializations: theory and research, interpersonal, organizational, rhetorical theory, public address, education, oral…