Assessing the Quality of PhD Dissertations. A Survey of External Committee Members

Autor/inn/en	Kyvik, Svein; Thune, Taran
Titel	Assessing the Quality of PhD Dissertations. A Survey of External Committee Members
Quelle	In: Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 40 (2015) 5, S.768-782 (15 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0260-2938
DOI	10.1080/02602938.2014.956283
Schlagwörter	Doctoral Dissertations; Advisory Committees; Graduate Students; Evaluators; Foreign Countries; Intellectual Disciplines; Institutional Characteristics; Geographic Regions; Surveys; Foreign Nationals; Doctoral Degrees; Supervisors; Standards; Evaluation Criteria; Statistical Analysis; Norway + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Doctoral dissertation; Doctoral thesis; Doctoral theses; Dissertationsschrift; Beratungsstelle; Graduate Study; Student; Students; Aufbaustudium; Graduiertenstudium; Hauptstudium; Studentin; Ausland; Geisteswissenschaften; Survey; Umfrage; Befragung; Ausländer; Ausländerin; Doctoral degree; Doktorgrad; Standard; Statistische Analyse; Norwegen
Abstract	This article reports on a study of the quality assessment of doctoral dissertations, and asks whether examiner characteristics influence assessment of research quality in PhD dissertations. Utilising a multi-dimensional concept of quality of PhD dissertations, we look at differences in assessment of research quality, and particularly test whether prior relationship to supervisor, examiners' assessment experience and the regional affiliation of examiners influence assessment, also controlling for academic fields and type of higher education institutions. The data are drawn from a survey to foreign members of thesis evaluation committees that served in the year 2010 at the Norwegian universities. The sample consisted of 1159 foreign committee members, representing a response rate of 79%. The results indicate that the regional affiliation and previous experience of committee members influence quality assessment significantly, but that the relationship to supervisor(s) was of little importance. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01