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Xolile C. Thani; Jacobus S. Wessels; Retha G. Visagie – Teaching Public Administration, 2024
This study aims to explore the role of a doctoral supervisor in doctoral candidates' state of methodological preparedness within a specific disciplinary and institutional context. The number of doctoral graduates per million is commonly used as an indicator of progress to high-level competence and growth, and has become a global policy priority.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Doctoral Students, Faculty Advisers, Academic Advising
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Eihab Mohammed Fathelrahman; Ghaleb Ali AlHadrami AlBreiki – Journal of Adult and Continuing Education, 2025
The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries, including Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates (UAE), Oman, Kuwait, Qatar, and Bahrain, have significantly progressed in higher education reform programmes. However, challenges remain, such as a lack of uniformity in assessment, different norms for degree recognition, a shortage of regionally relevant…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Higher Education, Sustainable Development, Objectives
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Samaranayake, Sobitha; Gunawardena, Athula D. A.; Meyer, Robert R. – Athens Journal of Education, 2023
Many students in the Unites States enter college without having decided on a focus for their studies, and thus are faced with choosing from a large number of potential majors and associated very complex sets of degree requirements which can include many courses in other areas of study. Academic advisors use academic planning tools to help students…
Descriptors: College Students, Degree Requirements, Academic Degrees, Decision Support Systems
Childs, Dawn – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Cyberattacks in the United States have consistently increased over recent years, and there is no apparent end to this upward trend. The increase in these attacks has resulted in successful cyber incidents and breaches of large, small, and medium-sized organizations across varied locales and industries. The hospitality industry has not been immune…
Descriptors: Hospitality Occupations, Professional Education, Curriculum, Computer Security
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V. Kumar; A. Kaur; L. J. Sanderson – International Journal for Academic Development, 2024
Taking into consideration the unique relational position of convenors (Chairs) in PhD oral examinations, this qualitative study explores insights from 55 convenors at a research-intensive university in New Zealand into the ways academic staff developers can better prepare doctoral supervisors and examiners for oral examinations. One striking…
Descriptors: Doctoral Programs, Verbal Tests, Degree Requirements, Administrators
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David Van Nguyen; Shayan Doroudi; Daniel A. Epstein – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2025
Our preliminary experiment examined a potential pain point with ASSIST, California's database of articulation agreements. That pain point is cross-referencing multiple articulation agreements to manually develop an "optimal" academic plan. Optimal is defined as the minimal set of community college courses that satisfy all transfer…
Descriptors: Articulation (Education), Human Factors Engineering, Algorithms, Educational Planning
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Hierman, Brent – Journal of Political Science Education, 2021
Despite the essential position of introductory courses within most political science departments' curricula, comprehensive comparisons of introductory requirements for majors have been somewhat rare. In this manuscript, I report on the state of introductory requirements through analyses of data from 381 national liberal arts colleges and…
Descriptors: Introductory Courses, Political Science, Degree Requirements, Comparative Analysis
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Cortazzi, Martin; Jin, Lixian – International Journal of Education and Literacy Studies, 2021
This paper presents questions within a consideration of the nature of doctoral viva examinations from an international viewpoint. We argue that preparation for the viva should begin early - certainly not just immediately after the thesis submission. Key viva questions can be used in a preparatory process with supervisors over time to develop…
Descriptors: Doctoral Students, Doctoral Dissertations, Verbal Tests, Degree Requirements
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Vaughan, Sian – Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 2021
Practice-based research is now widely accepted at doctoral level, and it is recognised that creative practice can be the mode, method, tool, object, subject and/or embodiment of research in the arts and humanities PhD. The growth of creative methods and arts-based methods also means that data is increasingly gathered through creative means in many…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Doctoral Degrees, Degree Requirements, School Policy
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Vo, Thi Ngoc Chau; Nguyen, Phung – IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, 2021
A course-level early final study status prediction task is to predict as soon as possible the final success of each student after studying a course. It is significant because each successful course accomplishment is required for a degree. Further, early predictions provide enough time to make necessary changes for ultimate success. This article…
Descriptors: Prediction, Academic Achievement, Data Collection, Learning Processes
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Ali Akbar Boori; Mohammad Ghazanfari; Behzad Ghonsooly; Purya Baghaei – International Journal of Language Testing, 2024
The purpose of this study was to compare the functioning of five restrictive CDMs, including DINA, DINO, A-CDM, LLM, and RRUM, against the G-DINA model to identify the best-fitting CDM which can better explain the interaction underlying the attributes of the reading comprehension section of an Iranian high-stakes language proficiency test. To this…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Doctoral Students, Reading Comprehension, Language Tests
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Foster, Holly A.; Chesnut, Steven; Thomas, James; Robinson, Courtney – Impacting Education: Journal on Transforming Professional Practice, 2023
Purpose: Higher education, as a field of study, is one of the few programmatic areas that offer two doctoral degrees: The Doctor of Education (EdD) and the Doctor of Philosophy (PhD). In the United States, the two degrees are often conflated. Conversations, to this point, have done more to contribute to the theoretical debate than to operationally…
Descriptors: Doctoral Programs, Doctoral Students, Doctoral Degrees, Differences
Mehran Mostajir – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This study explores students' perspectives regarding high school students receiving an Applied Associate of Science (AAS) degree while taking dual enrollment with career and technical education courses in the Engineering Systems Technology (EST) program. Using a qualitative study, the research captures the experiences and viewpoints of program…
Descriptors: College Students, Student Attitudes, Academic Degrees, Dual Enrollment
Bobbi Severt – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Athletic training education has changed and evolved significantly over the last few decades. Starting in the fall of 2022, the entry-level professional degree for athletic trainers will be a master's degree. Students will be required to attend and successfully complete an accredited master's level professional athletic training education program…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Athletics, Bachelors Degrees, Masters Degrees
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Megan Lochhead – Intersection: A Journal at the Intersection of Assessment and Learning, 2024
In 2007, the Ministers of Education across Canada adopted the Canadian Degree Qualifications Framework, articulating learning outcomes for bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees. Yet, by 2016, only 30% of Canadian institutions reported having learning outcomes for all programs (MacFarlane & Brumwell, 2016). One obstacle institutions face…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Degree Requirements, College Faculty, Science Education
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