Making the implicit explicit : creating performance expectations for the dissertation / Barbara E. Lovitts. [print]

Includes Index.

PART ONE: THE DISSERTATION AND ITS ASSESSMENT -- Judging dissertations -- Achieving excellence -- Universal qualities of a dissertation -- Disciplinary approaches to doctoral training and the development of a dissertation -- Converting performance expectations into rubrics -- Conclusions, implications, and recommendations --

PART TWO: THE DISCIPLINES -- The biology dissertation -- The physics dissertation -- The electrical and computer engineering dissertation -- The mathematics dissertation -- The economics dissertation -- The psychology dissertation -- The sociology dissertation -- The English dissertation -- The history dissertation -- The philosophy dissertation.

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. AMAZON

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