Doctoral Student Perceptions of Faculty Advisors: Four Supportive Behaviors to Promote Doctoral Completion

Building Relationships 1 FACULTY-DOCTORAL STUDENT COLLABORATIONS Building Relationships Around Tasks: Psychological Contracts in Faculty-Doctoral Student Collaborations

Psychological contracts theory is applied to the study of faculty-doctoral student collaborations. Through a survey of 170 doctoral students, four types of psychological contracts are investigated. The quality of collaboration and frequency of meetings are found to differ significantly across these contract types. In addition, quality of collaboration and meeting frequency varied significantly ...

Doctoral Student Awards for

Some of the most important questions in the area of decision making under uncertainty deal with individual decisions to conform to or violate norms of behavior. The decision to conform to a norm is complicated by uncertainty about the norms others hold (Bohnet and Zeckhauser, 2004) and strong inclinations to behave collectively Milgram (1977). (For the present purpose, we adopt the broad defini...

Perceptions of mattering in the doctoral student and advisor relationship

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Measuring Doctoral Student Diversity socio-economic background

OWA Operators for doctoral student selection problem

R. Yager [7] introduced a new aggregation technique based on the ordered weighted averaging (OWA) operators. In this article we illustrate the applicability of OWA operators to a doctoral student selection problem at the Graduate School of Turku Centre for Computer Science.