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Leaving the Ivory Tower

The Causes and Consequences of Departure from Doctoral Study

By: Barbara E. Lovitts

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Leaving the Ivory Tower

The Causes and Consequences of Departure from Doctoral Study

By: Barbara E. Lovitts

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.

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0585383642

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Making the Implicit Explicit

Creating Performance Expectations for the Dissertation

By: Barbara E. Lovitts

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Making the Implicit Explicit

Creating Performance Expectations for the Dissertation

By: Barbara E. Lovitts

Despite their and other stakeholders’ consistent demand for excellence, doctoral programs have rarely, if ever, been assessed in terms of the quality of the dissertations departments produce. Yet dissertations provide the most powerful, objective measure of the success of a department’s doctoral program. Indeed, assessment, when done properly, can help departments achieve excellence by providing insight into a program’s strengths and weaknesses.This book and the groundbreaking study on which it is based is about making explicit to doctoral students the tacit “rules” for the assessment of the final of all final educational products—the dissertation. The purpose of defining performance expectations is to make them more transparent to graduate students while they are in the researching and writing phases, and thus to help them achieve to higher levels of accomplishment. Lovitts proposes the use of rubrics to clarify performance expectations–not to rate dissertations or individual components of dissertations to provide a summary score, but to facilitate formative assessment to support, not substitute for, the advising process. She provides the results of a study in which over 270 faculty from ten major disciplines—spanning the sciences, social sciences, and humanities—were asked to make explicit their implicit standards or criteria for evaluating dissertations. The book concludes with a summary of the practical and research implications for different stakeholders: faculty, departments, universities, disciplinary associations, accrediting organizations, and doctoral students themselves.The methods described can easily be adapted for the formative assessment of capstone courses, senior and master’s theses, comprehensive exams, papers, and journal articles.

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100097734X

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Developing Quality Dissertations in the Sciences

A Graduate Student's Guide to Achieving Excellence

By: Barbara E. Lovitts,Ellen L. Wert

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A Graduate Student's Guide to Achieving Excellence

By: Barbara E. Lovitts,Ellen L. Wert

This is one of three short booklets designed to be given to graduate students as they begin their studies. They explain the purposes of the dissertation and the criteria by which it will be assessed. They help students understand the context of their course work; the need to take an active role in shaping their studies; and the importance of thinking ahead about the components of the dissertation and the quality of scholarship they will need to demonstrate.These booklets are intended to support the dissertation research and writing process by providing faculty and advisors with guidelines for setting clear expectations for student performance, and with a model for helping students produce the desired quality of work. They encourage dialogue between faculty and students about the quality of the components of their dissertation project. They include rubrics that students can use to self-assess their work and that can aid faculty in providing focused feedback.Setting explicit targets and benchmarks of excellence of the sort advocated in these booklets will enable departments and universities to respond to demands for accountability with clear criteria for, and evidence of, success; and will raise the overall quality of student performance.

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Developing Quality Dissertations in the Humanities

A Graduate Student's Guide to Achieving Excellence

By: Barbara E. Lovitts,Ellen L. Wert

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Developing Quality Dissertations in the Humanities

A Graduate Student's Guide to Achieving Excellence

By: Barbara E. Lovitts,Ellen L. Wert

This is one of three short booklets designed to be given to graduate students as they begin their studies. These booklets explain the purposes of the dissertation and the criteria by which it will be assessed. They help students understand the context of their course work; the need to take an active role in shaping their studies; and the importance of thinking ahead about the components of the dissertation and the quality of scholarship they will need to demonstrate.These booklets are intended to support the dissertation research and writing process by providing faculty and advisors with guidelines for setting clear expectations for student performance, and with a model for helping students produce the desired quality of work. They encourage dialogue between faculty and students about the quality of the components of their dissertation project. They include rubrics that students can use to self-assess their work and that can aid faculty in providing focused feedback.Setting explicit targets and benchmarks of excellence of the sort advocated in these booklets will enable departments and universities to respond to demands for accountability with clear criteria for, and evidence of, success; and will raise the overall quality of student performance.

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Developing Quality Dissertations in the Social Sciences

A Graduate Student's Guide to Achieving Excellence

By: Barbara E. Lovitts,Ellen L. Wert

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A Graduate Student's Guide to Achieving Excellence

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Leaving the Ivory Tower

The Causes and Consequences of Departure from Doctoral Study

By: Barbara E. Lovitts

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Making the Implicit Explicit

Creating Performance Expectations for the Dissertation

By: Barbara E. Lovitts

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Creating Performance Expectations for the Dissertation

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Developing Quality Dissertations in the Humanities

A Graduate Student's Guide to Achieving Excellence

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A Graduate Student's Guide to Achieving Excellence

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Developing Quality Dissertations in the Social Sciences

A Graduate Student's Guide to Achieving Excellence

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A Graduate Student's Guide to Achieving Excellence

By: Barbara E. Lovitts,Ellen L. Wert

These short booklets are designed to be given to graduate students as they begin their studies. They explain the purposes of the dissertation and the criteria by which it will be assessed. They help students understand the context of their course work; the need to take an active role in shaping their studies; and the importance of thinking ahead about the components of the dissertation and the quality of scholarship they will need to demonstrate. These booklets are intended to support the dissertation research and writing process by providing faculty and advisors with guidelines for setting clear expectations for student performance, and with a model for helping students produce the desired quality of work. These booklets are intended to support the dissertation research and writing process by providing faculty and advisors with guidelines for setting clear expectations for student performance, and with a model for helping students produce the desired quality of work. They encourage dialog between faculty and students about the quality of the components of their dissertation project. They include rubrics that students can use to self-assess their work and that can aid faculty in providing focused feedback. Using these booklets will raise the overall quality of student performance.

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Stylus Publishing, LLC.

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1579222617

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Just Barbara

My Story

By: Barbara Woodhouse

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My Story

By: Barbara Woodhouse

The animal trainer recounts her Dublin childhood, her travels, her marriage, and her experiences as a dog trainer, horse breaker, importer of polo ponies, author, and television personality

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Just Barbara

My Story

By: Barbara Woodhouse

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By: Barbara Woodhouse

The animal trainer recounts her Dublin childhood, her travels, her marriage, and her experiences as a dog trainer, horse breaker, importer of polo ponies, author, and television personality

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Book's by Barbara E. Lovitts

Leaving the Ivory Tower

Leaving the Ivory Tower

Making the Implicit Explicit

Making the Implicit Explicit

Developing Quality Dissertations in the Sciences

Developing Quality Dissertations in the Sciences

Developing Quality Dissertations in the Humanities

Developing Quality Dissertations in the Humanities

Developing Quality Dissertations in the Social Sciences

Developing Quality Dissertations in the Social Sciences

Leaving the Ivory Tower

Leaving the Ivory Tower

Making the Implicit Explicit

Making the Implicit Explicit

Developing Quality Dissertations in the Humanities

Developing Quality Dissertations in the Humanities

Developing Quality Dissertations in the Social Sciences

Developing Quality Dissertations in the Social Sciences

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