Purpose: Higher education, as a field of study, is one the few programmatic areas that offer two doctoral degrees: The Doctor Education (EdD) and Philosophy (PhD). In United States, degrees are often conflated. Conversations, to this point, have done more contribute theoretical debate than operationally distinguish between degree paths. Method: current study analyzed data collected from review ...

Abstract Objective The Commission on Accreditation in Physical Therapy Education has introduced a requirement that 50% of core faculty members physical therapist education program should have an academic doctoral degree, which many programs are not currently meeting. Competition between for prestige and resources may explain the discrepancy achievement among despite accreditation standards. pur...

The primary distinguishing element between the practice of clinical psychiatry and applied psychology is the right to prescribe psychotropic medications for psychiatrists and the absence of that right for applied psychologists (Clinical or Counseling Psychologists holding either Ph.D, Psy.D, or Ed.D degrees) (Andrews, 2011). Since 1995, the American Psychological Association has made it officia...

Equal representation within higher education science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields and the STEM workforce in the United States across demographically diverse populations is a long-standing challenge. This study uses two-to-one nearest-neighbor matched-comparison group design to examine academic achievement, pursuit of graduate science degree, and classification of grad...

The Biometric Research Branch is the biostatistical and biomathematical component of the DCTD. During 2005 it consisted of 13 permanent doctoral level research investigators supplemented by post-doctoral research fellows and guest researchers. The staff have doctoral degrees and expertise in biostatistics, biomathematics, computational biology and computer science. The philosophy of the BRB is ...

The School of Medicine set recruitment records with this year’s new class of doctoral students, receiving the largest-ever pool of applicants and boasting the highest acceptance rate in the school’s history. Of the 2,030 applicants to Stanford’s biosciences PhD programs, 174 were offered admission and 116 accepted, according to William Talbot, PhD, the medical school’s senior associate dean for...

The prerequisite for doctoral students in Chinese universities to obtain their degrees was publish a certain number of papers designated journals, which is the main pressure on China. This study focused publication pedagogy China under policy breaking ‘five only’, aims diversify evaluation criteria academic quality and reduce reliance paper publications. analyzed data 36 pedagogical CSSCI journ...

Addresses the socialization process among marketing doctoral students. Four modes of doctoral student socialization are provided from depth interviews conducted with 28 purposively selected individuals. These four modes are based upon two characteristics: degree of program structure, or formal socialization; and degree of student-faculty interaction, or informal socialization. Reveals five fact...

When attempting to generalize recursion theory to admissible ordinals, it may seem as if all classical priority constructions can be lifted to any admissible ordinal satisfying a sufficiently strong fragment of the replacement scheme. We show, however, that this is not always the case. In fact, there are some constructions which make an essential use of the notion of finiteness which cannot be ...