A Guide to the Methodology of the National Research Council Assessment of Doctorate Programs (2009) / Chapter Skim
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2 The Data and How They Were Obtained
2 The Data and How They Were Obtained
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universities offering doctoral degrees of the NRC's intention to conduct a new assessment of doctoral programs. The universities were asked to contribute funding to the project, with the amount determined by a sliding scale that reflected the number of doctoral degrees in selected fields granted in 2003-2004 according to the National Science Foundation's Survey of Doctoral Recipients.3 Two hundred twenty-two universities chose to participate.4 Most of the data collection was carried out in late fall 2006 and spring 2007.
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7 The Doctorate Records File, administered by the National Science Foundation (NSF) , is a joint data gathering activity of NSF, the U.S.
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of the National Research Council and most institutions also received approval from their own IRBs. • Data Collection -- Each of the participating universities was asked to name an institutional coordinator (IC)
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A sample of raters in each field was chosen so that the sample duplicated the distribution by program size, faculty rank, and geographic region for all programs in the field. Each rater was given a set of 15 programs to rate on a six-point scale, for which 1 was "not adequate for doctoral education" and 6 was "distinguished." The questionnaire also asked the rater's familiarity with each program and provided information about the program and a reference to the program Web site.
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Respondents included programs in Italian, romance languages, Russian studies, Middle Eastern studies, African studies, and a number of other fields. Full data about these programs will be published in the database accompanying the final report.
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16 These values will be identified in the data tables that accompany the final report. Eight hundred fifty-four programs out of 4,915 total had at least one missing value.
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