The Librarian BFF: A Case Study of a Cohort-Based Personal Librarian Program

This case study presents the development and implementation of a personal librarian program for a cohort-based, executive-style higher education administration doctoral program. Librarians and the program director collaborated to create a student-centered program based on individual research needs. The personal librarian program was designed to build a close relationship between the librarian and individual students; to help identify their research knowledge gaps; and to identify resources to meet each individual students' research needs.     

导师指导频率对博士生培养质量的影响--基于博士生视角的分析和探讨

博士生教育是国际上公认的正规高等教育的最高层次,导师的指导在博士生培养过程中起着举足轻重的作用。本文对澳大利亚昆士兰大学关于博士生导师指导情况的调查进行了分析和研究,并通过国际比较,从博士生的角度,阐述了导师指导频率这一影响博士生培养质量的关键因素。最后对提高我国博士生导师的指导频率提出了若干建议。     

英国专业博士教育发展研究

专业博士学位是上世纪90年代引入英国的,虽然只有短暂的发展历史,但近年已成为英国博士教育中发展最快的领域,形成了不同于哲学博士学位的鲜明培养特色。本文介绍了英国专业博士发展背景、发展成因及培养特色,并进一步指出其面临的问题、挑战及对我国专业博士培养的启示。     

“申请——考核”制对博士生选拔的效果——基于首都高校博士生调查数据的实证研究

基于首都高校博士生调查数据,运用零膨胀负二项回归等模型分析“申请—考核”制对博士生选拔的效果。研究发现：“申请—考核”制选拔出的博士生专业基础更扎实、学术志趣更笃定,但与非“申请—考核”制博士生的科研能力无显著差别;“申请—考核”制的选拔效果不仅存在学科差异,还受到考试形式与选拔标准的影响。其中,完全取消笔试将削弱“申请—考核”制的选拔效果,而规定本科院校层次对“申请—考核”制的选拔效果不存在显著影响,设置论文发表数量的显著作用仅局限在博士生专业素养维度。基于此,建议从以下方面完善“申请—考核”制：注重构建科学有效的学科分类选拔标准体系,将笔试与面试有机结合,适度关注科研发表数量,谨慎设置本科院校层次条件。     

Juggling competing activities: academic staff as doctoral candidates

ABSTRACT

This article explores the experiences of a group of established academic staff in New Zealand and the UK, as they undertake a doctorate in their home institutions. Our interest is in how individuals negotiate this dual status from a cultural-historical activity theory (CHAT) stance that explores how rules, tools, community and divisions of labour, and interacting activity systems, shape doctoral experiences. The focus in this article, having analysed their detailed narrative accounts, is on how academics experience three interdependent activity systems: those surrounding the thesis, the institutional context, and the home-life spheres. Issues related to time, workload and supervision issues, variability in collegial support and impact on personal priorities and time emerged. There is a range of particularities – from easy access to resources/supervisors to inflexible institutional regulations – applicable to this group of doctoral candidates. Negotiating life as an academic with concurrent doctoral candidature provides positive outcomes in terms of teaching, research confidence and general personal and professional development. However, a range of difficulties can also be encountered, particularly in relation to personal and professional relationships, and workload management.     

Preparing the Next Generation of Educational Measurement Specialists: A Call for Programs With an Integrated Scope and Sequence

The field of educational measurement has evolved considerably since the first doctoral programs were established. In response, programs have typically tacked on courses that address newly developed theories, methods, tools, and techniques. As our review of current programs evidences, this approach produces artificial distinctions among topics and techniques that are in fact a tightly coupled whole. This position paper advocates a redesign of the scope and sequence for doctoral programs focused on the preparation of the next generations of educational measurement specialists; a redesign that reflects the full life‐cycle of instrument development and use.     

博士生培养模式各要素与培养质量的关系的实证研究——以上海交通大学为例

利用上海交通大学调查数据,通过结构方程模型,实证研究了博士生培养模式各要素与培养质量之间的关系。研究结果表明,招生方式、科学研究、学位论文、导师指导对培养质量有显著的正向影响,其中导师指导对博士生培养质量起到的作用最大;学术活动、课程学习与培养质量无显著的正向作用。     

我国机械学科博士生培养质量提升对策研究

分析我国高校机械学科博士生培养现状,针对存在的问题,分别从博士生培养机制、博士生指导教师和不同类型博士生的培养过程管理等方面提出了详细的提升策略。     

建立医学领域研究型博士学位评价标准的探讨——应用德尔菲法的尝试

医学领域研究型博士学位评价是对博士生经过3～5年学习之后形成的最终学习成果进行价值判断。为了探究医学领域研究型博士学位评价标准,我们采用德尔菲（Delphi）法,对22名专家进行两轮咨询。研究结果初步确立了医学领域研究型博士学位评价体系,包含4大要素、25项评价指标。本研究不仅为社会评价医学领域研究型博士学位提供统一的参考标准和导向,还为高校授予医学领域研究型博士学位提供一套实用的工具。     

博士生知识焦虑的多维透视及其消解策略

作为知识社会重要的劳动主体,博士生受知识引发的现实性变革影响而压力倍增,逐渐暴露出由知识引发的焦虑问题。从心理学来看,博士生知识焦虑表现为以无助感为特质的情绪症候,消解之策在于博士生自我调控和外部干预两个方面;从现象学来看,其导源于博士生消极的学术体验,主要表现为由知识建构中自我效能感降低和师生关系紧张所诱发的学术倦怠,对此应加强研究生教育的系统性,建立科学机制以保证师生间的良性互动;从生命哲学而言,知识焦虑表现为博士生对学术生命的存在困惑,因应之道在于关注博士生的生存状态、尊重其学术生命的独特性和完整性,满足博士生潜能发挥与自我实现的内在需求。