Institutional Factors in Time to the Doctorate. [Report No.: ETS-RR-93-16

Autor/in	Stricker, Lawrence J.
Institution	Educational Testing Service, Princeton, NJ.
Titel	Institutional Factors in Time to the Doctorate. [Report No.: ETS-RR-93-16
Quelle	(1993), (155 Seiten)Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Chemistry; Colleges; Doctoral Degrees; Doctoral Programs; Educational Attainment; English; Graduate Study; Higher Education; Institutional Characteristics; Intellectual Disciplines; Psychology; Student Characteristics; Teacher Student Ratio; Time + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Chemie; College; Hochschule; Fachhochschule; Doctoral degree; Doktorgrad; Doktorandenprogramm; Bildungsabschluss; Bildungsgut; English language; Englisch; Aufbaustudium; Graduiertenstudium; Hauptstudium; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Geisteswissenschaften; Psychologie; Lehrer-Schüler-Relation; Zeit
Abstract	The aim of this study was to delineate departmental differences in the length of time that doctoral students take to receive their degrees and the institutional characteristics linked with it, being as comprehensive as possible in the institutional characteristics examined and disentangling the confounding effects of student characteristics. Variables describing graduate departments in three disciplines and their parent universities were obtained from 86 departments of Chemistry, 57 departments of English, and 62 departments of Psychology. In analyses of departments in each discipline, a relatively small set of institutional variables correlated with average time to the doctorate for each department, after controlling for characteristics of students in the department, and these relationships differed from discipline to discipline. The clearest and most extensive findings emerged for Psychology: the institutional variables identified primarily concerned faculty accessibility (student/faculty ratio and department size), with longer time required in departments with many students per faculty member or with many students. Student characteristics accounted for about half of the departmental variation in time in each discipline. An appendix contains four tables describing departmental characteristics. (Contains 6 tables, 17 figures, and 40 references.) (Author/SLD)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2004/1/01