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WHAT'S NEW Revised July 9, 2009 Update: The National Research Council’s Committee to Assess Research Doctorate Programs publicly released A Guide to the Methodology of the National Research Council Assessment of Research Doctorate Programs at 12 noon EDT on Thursday, July 9, 2009. An electronic copy of the PDF report was sent to all institutional coordinators at participating institutions. Download the Guide free of charge.
Please understand that this report is only a description of the methodology and is intended mainly for university staff who wish to understand how the assessment was conducted, and who will be asked to explain the results of the NRC Assessment to their presidents and provosts. It is not the final report and is not the assessment itself. For the list of participating programs and institutions, see here. Charlotte Kuh gave a presentation on the Methodology Guide at the Summer 2009 CGS Workshop. Charlotte Kuh gave a presentation to the Association of Graduate Schools on September 2008. Jim Voytuk gave a presentation at the Association of Institutional Research meeting in Seattle on May 28th, 2008 about the current status of the report. Charlotte Kuh gave a presentation at the December 2007 CGS Annual Meeting about the methodology of ratings and the rollout of the report. Copies of the questionnaires upon which the study results will be based can be found here. The list ofparticipating institutions and their programs has been posted. As of September 2008 there are 222 institutions participating in the Assessment of Research-Doctorate Programs. The study will include program data for over 5000 programs.
Many have asked whether the study will include ratings and rankings. A simple answer is: yes, it is required by our charge. We understand, however, that the overall quality of a doctoral program is multi-dimensional and that a strictly ordered ranking misrepresents the varieties of ways that programs achieve quality as well as the varieties of attributes that potential students seek in a doctoral program. Thus, we propose to approach the rating task in a variety of ways. Read more about rating and ranking. For further information, please contact the study director, Dr. Charlotte Kuh (ckuh@nas.edu) or 202-334-2700.
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