The Research Foundations Of Graduate Education

Author : Burton R. Clark
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520338715
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Research Foundations of Graduate Education written by Burton R. Clark and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-04-28 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1993.

Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309472733
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Graduate STEM Education for the 21st Century written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2018-09-21 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The U.S. system of graduate education in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) has served the nation and its science and engineering enterprise extremely well. Over the course of their education, graduate students become involved in advancing the frontiers of discovery, as well as in making significant contributions to the growth of the U.S. economy, its national security, and the health and well-being of its people. However, continuous, dramatic innovations in research methods and technologies, changes in the nature and availability of work, shifts in demographics, and expansions in the scope of occupations needing STEM expertise raise questions about how well the current STEM graduate education system is meeting the full array of 21st century needs. Indeed, recent surveys of employers and graduates and studies of graduate education suggest that many graduate programs do not adequately prepare students to translate their knowledge into impact in multiple careers. Graduate STEM Education for the 21st Century examines the current state of U.S. graduate STEM education. This report explores how the system might best respond to ongoing developments in the conduct of research on evidence-based teaching practices and in the needs and interests of its students and the broader society it seeks to serve. This will be an essential resource for the primary stakeholders in the U.S. STEM enterprise, including federal and state policymakers, public and private funders, institutions of higher education, their administrators and faculty, leaders in business and industry, and the students the system is intended to educate.

Author : Brian S. Mitchell
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1487538626
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Research Agenda for Graduate Education written by Brian S. Mitchell and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2021-08-31 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Post-baccalaureate education continues to expand at an accelerated rate as new degree programs are developed, enrollments rise, online instruction matures, and the number of institutions offering advanced degrees increases. Our level of understanding of graduate and professional education has not kept pace, especially in comparison to the depth of scholarship available on primary, secondary, and baccalaureate education. A Research Agenda for Graduate Education is a call to action for the graduate education community to commit to the same level of research and scholarship on itself that it expects from its students in their own disciplinary training. In this book, Brian S. Mitchell explores the current literature on graduate education for theoretical models that need testing, previous research that needs updating, and future research that may be explored. The book is divided into research questions on the science of graduate learning, graduate student career preparation, and graduate program improvement, with special attention placed on current research topics. Targeted at higher education researchers, including educational psychologists and disciplinary-based researchers specializing in graduate education, this volume will also be of interest to funding agencies, university administrators, and faculty mentors.

Author : Leonard Cassuto
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 067472898X
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Graduate School Mess written by Leonard Cassuto and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2015-09-14 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American graduate education is in disarray. Graduate study in the humanities takes too long and those who succeed face a dismal academic job market. Leonard Cassuto gives practical advice about how faculty can teach and advise students so that they are prepared for the demands of the working worlds they will join, inside and outside the academy.

Author : Leonard Cassuto
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421439778
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The New PhD written by Leonard Cassuto and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2021-01-19 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the failed graduate school reforms of the past and presents a plan for a practical and sustainable PhD. For too many students, today's PhD is a bridge to nowhere. Imagine an entering cohort of eight doctoral students. By current statistics, four of the eight—50%!—will not complete the degree. Of the other four, two will never secure full-time academic positions. The remaining pair will find full-time teaching jobs, likely at teaching-intensive institutions. And maybe, just maybe, one of them will garner a position at a research university like the one where those eight students began graduate school. But all eight members of that original group will be trained according to the needs of that single one of them who might snag a job at a research university. Graduate school has been preparing students for jobs that don't exist—and preparing them to want those jobs above all others. In The New PhD, Leonard Cassuto and Robert Weisbuch argue that universities need to ready graduate students for the jobs they will get, not just the academic ones. Connecting scholarly training to the vast array of career options open to graduates requires a PhD that looks outside the walls of the university, not one that turns inward—a PhD that doesn't narrow student minds but unlocks and broadens them practically as well as intellectually. Cassuto and Weisbuch document the growing movement for a student-centered, career-diverse graduate education, and they highlight some of the most promising innovations that are taking place on campuses right now. They also review for the first time the myriad national reform efforts, sponsored by major players like Carnegie and Mellon, that took place between 1990 and 2010, look at why these attempts failed, and ask how we can do better this time around. A more humane and socially dynamic PhD experience, the authors assert, is possible. This new PhD reconceives of graduate education as a public good, not a hermetically sealed cloister—and it won't happen by itself. Throughout the book, Cassuto and Weisbuch offer specific examples of how graduate programs can work to: • reduce the time it takes students to earn a degree; • expand career opportunities after graduation; • encourage public scholarship; • create coherent curricula and rethink the dissertation; • attract a truly representative student cohort; and • provide the resources—financial, cultural, and emotional—that students need to successfully complete the program. The New PhD is a toolbox for practical change that will teach readers how to achieve consensus on goals, garner support, and turn talk to action. Speaking to all stakeholders in graduate education—faculty, administrators, and students—it promises that graduates can become change agents throughout our world. By fixing the PhD, we can benefit the entire educational system and the life of our society along with it.

Author : Burton R. Clark
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520915107
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Places of Inquiry written by Burton R. Clark and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-12-22 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A distinguished work by one of America's leading scholars of higher education, Places of Inquiry explores one of the major issues in university education today: the relationship among research, teaching, and study. Based on cross-national research on the university systems of Germany, Britain, France, the United States, and Japan—which was first reported in the edited volume The Research Foundations of Graduate Education (California, 1993)—this book offers in-depth comparative analysis and draws provocative conclusions about the future of the research-teaching-study nexus. With characteristic clarity and vision, Burton R. Clark identifies the main features and limitations of each national system: governmental and industrial dominance in Japan, for example, and England's collegiate form of university. He examines the forces drawing research, teaching, and study apart and those binding them together. Highlighting the fruitful integration of teaching and research in the American graduate school, Clark decries the widely held view that these are antithetical activities. Rather, he demonstrates that research provides a rich basis for instruction and learning. Universities, he maintains, are places of inquiry, and the future lies with institutions firmly grounded in this belief.

Author : Marcia Edwards
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Studies in American Graduate Education written by Marcia Edwards and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jaroslav Pelikan
Publisher : Advancement of Teaching
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Scholarship and Its Survival written by Jaroslav Pelikan and published by Advancement of Teaching. This book was released on 1983 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Graduate education in the United States and issues related to the survival of scholarship are addressed. Ways to balance undergraduate, graduate, and professional studies are considered, including issues related to research training and the undergraduate major. It is suggested that graduate schools coordinate their emphasis on general education with undergraduate colleges. Topics of discussion include: the dominance of the Ph.D. as the credential for college teachers; the effects of graduate education on undergraduate teaching; the shrinking of the collegiate student body and its implications for the need for scholars in the future; the role of general education in the preparation of scholars; the need for perspectives on foreign cultures in the scholar's training; distinctions between traditional graduate divisions and professional schools; tensions between colleges (within and separate from universities) and the graduate divisions of universities; moral and ethical concerns of those engaged in research; and the degree to which concern for equality of opportunity in education might change the quality of scholarship. Appendices provide brief narrative descriptions and statistical tables on trends in graduate education, including enrollments, the number of institutions offering graduate degrees, and sources of student support. (SW)

Author : Jin Li
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521768292
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cultural Foundations of Learning written by Jin Li and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-03-26 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes fundamental differences in learning beliefs between the Western mind model and the East Asian virtue model of learning.

Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309175615
Total Pages : 90 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Path to the Ph.D. written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1997-01-03 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is a growing concern among educators and policymakers about the level of attrition from Ph.D. programs in the sciences and humanities at some U.S. universities. Reliable estimates of graduate student attrition are difficult to obtain, however, because most information comes from the administrative records of individual institutions. This book provides a summary of datasets that could be used to analyze patterns of graduate student attrition and degree completion nationally, along with an analysis of recent studies on the subject. Based on this information, the committee examines the feasibility of designing a system to produce national estimates of graduate student attrition.