A survey of 47 public-administration doctoral programs identified ways they can train more productive researchers. Important factors are engaging students in structured research experiences, providing students with adequate financial support, and employing productive faculty members. (JOW)

Describes a new doctoral program in "public intellectualism" at Florida Atlantic University intended for journalists, artists, and activists. Two year-long required courses, "Public Matters," and "Rhetoric and Principle," form the centerpiece of the curriculum. Students then concentrate in one of 13 areas and also…

Evaluated the Education Participation Scale (EPS) in determining motivational orientations of nontraditional doctor of pharmacy students (n=17) compared to continuing education pharmacists (n=83). Nontraditional pharmacy students were significantly different from the continuing education pharmacists on the "professional advancement" and…

Describes an elective six-week advanced practice experience for PharmD students and a required module for graduate students designed to prepare students for teaching roles. Course and rotation evaluations have been positive. Also includes perspectives of two students who tell how they applied the principles learned in roles of graduate teaching…

Offers a utopian vision of what the place of rhetoric should be in a department that thinks of itself as literary. Argues that a Ph.D. in English that encompasses both literature and rhetoric works because it is really a degree in rhetoric. (TB)

Survey responses from 268 of 444 doctoral programs in adult development/aging and 81 of 145 in clinical psychology show a slight decline in the former. There are fewer teaching assitantships and more internships and practicums; 8% of clinical psychology programs offer a specialization in clinical geropsychology. (SK)

Presents the official listing of accredited doctoral programs in psychology created by the Committee on Accreditation. All of the programs offer the PhD degree, except when otherwise noted. The listing includes contact information as well as the original date of accreditation for each program and the date of the next regularly scheduled site visit…

Examined use of the viva in British doctoral examinations, specifically: (1) its roles as delineated within university policy; and (2) its purposes from the perspectives of examiners, supervisors, and doctoral candidates. Found no consensus regarding the viva's role in the Ph.D. examination process; moreover, found inconsistencies and…

A thorough, sophisticated literature review is the foundation and inspiration for substantial, useful research. The complex nature of education research demands such thorough, sophisticated reviews. Although doctoral education is a key means for improving education research, the literature has given short shrift to the dissertation literature…

Learning in workplaces is neither ad hoc nor informal. Such labels are a misnomer and do not do justice to the highly-structured nature and complexity of many workplaces where learning takes place. This article discusses the organisational and structural framework developed from a three-year doctoral study into how apprentice chefs construct their…

This article discusses the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation's report, "Diversity and the Ph.D.," released in May, which documents in troubling detail the exact dimensions of what the foundation's president, Dr. Robert Weisbuch, is calling the national "expertise gap." Weisbuch states that the expertise gap extends beyond the…

Doctoral education in the United States has in recent years received a number of criticisms. In response, several initiatives have been developed to address some of these criticisms. In addition, three major surveys have been undertaken to better understand the process, content, and outcome of doctoral education. This paper explores the criticisms…

Using data on the number of men and women who received doctorates in all academic fields from 1971 to 2002, the authors examine changes in the sex composition of fields. During this period, the proportion of women who received doctorates increased dramatically from 14 percent to 46 percent. Regression models with fixed effects indicate no evidence…

The culture at the authors' institution raised barriers to changing from traditional assessment to portfolio assessment in the doctoral program. A Culture of Independence presented barriers of time and functional inadequacy. A Culture of Compliance raised trust, group process, and membership issues. These barriers were managed and overcome using…

This article reports on the results of an intensive summer course in which a community of learners, consisting of three teaching and teacher education academics and 17 European PhD students in the field of education, conducted a collective self-study. The international collective self-study offered a unique opportunity to go beyond parochial and…