Making the Implicit Explicit: Creating Performance Expectations for the Dissertation

Barbara E. Lovitts

ISBN 10: 1579221815 / ISBN 13: 9781579221812

Published by Stylus Pub Llc, 2007

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409 pages. 9.00x6.00x1.00 inches. In Stock.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Making the Implicit Explicit: Creating Performance Expectations for the Dissertation
• Publisher: Stylus Pub Llc
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1579221815
• ISBN 13: 9781579221812
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.6 kilograms

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Synopsis

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 higher levels of accomplishment.

About the Author

Barbara E. Lovitts is an independent higher education researcher. She was formerly Senior Program Officer in the Center for the Advancement of Scholarship on Engineering Education at the National Academy of Engineering, and is the author of Leaving the Ivory Tower: The Causes and Consequences of Departure from Doctoral Study. She has worked at the University of Maryland, the American Institutes for Research, the National Science Foundation, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.