Avoiding the Dissertation Syndrome: Reflections from "New Docs"
Location
Room 1005
Proposal Track
Practice Report
Session Format
Symposium
Abstract
Abstract From the reflective experiences shared by participants in focus groups at GERA and informal settings, the relevance the conceptual factors related to the completion of doctoral students seems to be a consistent matter. The Council of Graduate Schools (CGS) has posted research based and reflective information related to Graduate Schools attempts to address these pressing issues of doctoral degree completion (“Chapter 3: What University Administrators Can Do to Improve Completion Rates” Retrieved from www.gsnet.org). The voices of doctoral degree attendees and recent graduates should be centrifugal in the development of a symposium on the dissertation syndrome (2011). As a result the foci for this symposium will be to hear the voices of recent completers of a doctoral program and review results from a soon to be defended case study on faculty engagement and academic scholarship as factors in the relationship between doctoral candidates and faculty. Additionally, the attendees will be offered a survey based upon the theory of the dissertation syndrome.
Keywords
Dissertation syndrome, ABD, Doctoral degree, Prospectus, Dissertation defense
Recommended Citation
Moffet, Noran L.; Williams, Yolanda Brownlee Ed.D; and Frizzell, Melanie M., "Avoiding the Dissertation Syndrome: Reflections from "New Docs"" (2014). Georgia Educational Research Association Conference. 68.
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/gera/2014/2014/68
Proposal
Avoiding the Dissertation Syndrome: Reflections from "New Docs"
Room 1005
Abstract From the reflective experiences shared by participants in focus groups at GERA and informal settings, the relevance the conceptual factors related to the completion of doctoral students seems to be a consistent matter. The Council of Graduate Schools (CGS) has posted research based and reflective information related to Graduate Schools attempts to address these pressing issues of doctoral degree completion (“Chapter 3: What University Administrators Can Do to Improve Completion Rates” Retrieved from www.gsnet.org). The voices of doctoral degree attendees and recent graduates should be centrifugal in the development of a symposium on the dissertation syndrome (2011). As a result the foci for this symposium will be to hear the voices of recent completers of a doctoral program and review results from a soon to be defended case study on faculty engagement and academic scholarship as factors in the relationship between doctoral candidates and faculty. Additionally, the attendees will be offered a survey based upon the theory of the dissertation syndrome.
