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APPENDIX G
CONFERENCE ON THE ASSESSMENT OF
QUALITY OF GRADUATE EDUCATION PROGRAMS
September 27-29, 1976
Woods Hole, Massachusetts
Participants
Robert A. ALBERTY
Charles ANDERSEN
Richard C. ATKINSON
R. H. BING
David W. BRENEMAN
John E. CANTLON
Henry E. COBB
Monroe D. DONSKER
David E. DREW
E. Alden DUNHAM
David A. GOSLIN
Hanna H. GRAY
Norman HACKERMAN
Philip HANDLER
David D. HENRY
Roger W. HEYNS
Lyle V. JONES
Charles V. KIDD
Winfred P. LEHMANN
Charles T. LESTER
Dean of Science, Massachusetts Institute of
Technology
Coordinator, Education Statistics, American
Council on Education
Acting Director, National Science Foundation
Chairman, Department of Mathematics, University
of Texas at Austin
Senior Fellow, The Brookings Institution
Vice-President for Research and Graduate
Studies, Michigan State University
Professor, Department of History, Southern
University
Professor, Courant Institute of Mathematical
Sciences, New York University
Senior Scientist, Rand Corporation
Program Officer, Carnegie Corporation of
New York
Executive Director, Assembly of Behavioral and
Social Sciences, National Research Council
Provost, Yale University
President, Rice University
President, National Academy of Sciences
President Emeritus, University of Illinois
President, American Council on Education
Vice Chancellor and Dean, Graduate School,
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Executive Secretary, Association of American
Universities
Professor, Department of Linguistics,
University of Texas at Austin
Vice-President of Arts and Sciences,
Emory University
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Gardner LINDZEY
Raymond P. MARIELLA
Cora B. MARRETT
Peter S. McKINNEY
Doris H. MERRITT
John Perry MILLER
Lincoln E. MOSES
Frederick W. MOTE
Thomas A. NOBLE
J. Boyd PAGE
C. K. N. PATEL
Michael J. PELCZAR, Jr.
Frank PRESS
John J. PRUIS
Lorene L.-ROGERS
John SAWYER
Robert L. SPROULL
E1 lot STELLAR
A1 fred S. SUSSMAN
Donald C. SWAIN
Mack E. THOMPSON
Charles V. WILLIE
H. Edwin YOUNG
Harriet A. ZUCKERMAN
Director, Center for Advanced Study in the
Behavioral Sciences (Chairman)
Dean of the Graduate School, Loyola University
Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral
Sciences
Acting Dean, Graduate School of Arts and
Sciences, Harvard University
Dean, Research and Sponsored Programs, Indiana
University/Purdue University
Corporation Officer for Institutional
Development, The Campaign for Yale
Professor, Department of Family, Community and
Preventive Medicine, Stanford University
Medical Center
Professor, Department of East Asian Studies,
Princeton University
Executive Associate, American Council of
Learned Societies
President, The Council of Graduate Schools in
the United States
Director, Physical Research Laboratory,
Bell Laboratories
Vice-President for Graduate Studies and
Research, University of Maryland, College Park
Chairman, Department of Earth and Planetary
Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
President, Ball State University
President, University of Texas at Austin
President, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
President, University of Rochester
Provost, University of Pennsylvania
Dean, Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate
Studies, University of Michigan
Academic Vice-President, University of
California System
Executive Director, American Historical
Association
Professor of Education and Urban Studies, The
Graduate School of Education, Harvard
University
Chancellor, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Associate Professor, Department of Sociology,
Columbia University
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SUMMARY
September 27-29, 1976, Woods Hole, Massachusetts
_eport of the Conference
A substantial majority of the Conference believes that the earlier
assessments of graduate education have received wide and important
use: by students and their advisors, by the institutions of higher
education as aids to planning and the allocation of educational
functions, as a check of unwarranted claims of excellence, and in
social science research.
The recommendations which follow attempt to distill the main points of
consensus within the conference. This report does not in any sense
adequately represent the rich diversity of points of view revealed
during the Conference nor the deep and real differences in belief
among the participants.
Recommendations
1. A new assessment of graduate programs is needed, and we believe
that the Conference Board is an appropriate sponsor. While we do
not propose to specify the details of this assessment, we are
prepared to suggest the following guidelines.
2. The assessment should include a modified replication of the Roose-
Andersen study, with the addition of some fields and the
subdivision of others.
It is important to provide additional indices relevant to program
assessment such as some of those cited by Breneman, Drew, and
Page. The Conference directs specific attention to the CGS/ETS
Study currently nearing completion and urges that the results of
that study be carefully examined and used to the fullest possible
extent.
4. The initial assessment study should be one of surveying the
quality of scholarship and research and the effectiveness of
Ph.D. programs in the fields selected for inclusion.
a. It is intended that the study be carried forward on a
continuing basis to provide valuable longitudinal data. This
should be implemented along the lines suggested by Moses,
involving annual assessment of subsets of programs.
b.
Every eligible institution should be given the choice of
whether to be included in the study.
Each program is to be characterized by a set of scores, one
for each selected index. The presentation of scores for all
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reported indices should be accompanied by a discussion of their
substantive meaning. In addition, appropriate measures of
uncertainty should accompany all tables of results. ~-
We propose a simultaneous study exploring ways of reviewing goals
of graduate education other than research and scholarship. This
would involve review of other doctoral programs and selected
master's programs.
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