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Perceptions of US Physician Assistants Regarding the Entry-Level Doctoral Degree in PA Education

The Journal of Physician Assistant Education, 2008
Introduction: Although many health care professions have implemented an entry-level clinical doctorate, the physician assistant (PA) profession has not done so to date. Furthermore, no research has been done on the PA profession to determine the appropriateness of entrylevel doctoral education.
Ohlemeier, Lindsay S., Muma, Richard D.
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Gender differences in educational attainment: the case of doctoral degrees in Norway

British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2005
Despite strong trends in most Western countries towards gender equality in educational attainments, men are still considerably more likely to obtain doctoral degrees. Using data comprising nearly all students graduating from Norwegian universities during 1981–1996, separate event history analyses are carried out of recruitment to and completion of ...
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Academic and affective factors contributing to degree completion of doctoral students in educational administration

The Teacher Educator, 2004
Abstract Little published research exists on doctoral attrition, retention, and completion of degree programs. This study sought to examine the factors, both quantitative and qualitative, that may serve to predict at the time of admission which doctoral students in the field of educational administration will be most likely to persist to degree ...
Bobby G. Malone, Jacquelyn S. Nelson, C. Van Nelson   +2 more
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The Perspectives of Two First-Generation College Students Pursuing Doctoral Degrees in Music Education

Journal of Music Teacher Education, 2017
The purpose of this autoethnographic multiple case study was to compare experiences of two first-generation college students pursuing doctoral degrees in music education. Motivations for pursuing an advanced degree were to enact change in the field of music education and fulfill personal ambitions. Participants encountered two challenges, insufficient
Martina Vasil, Joyce M. McCall
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Eliminating the Doctor of Education Degree: It's the Right Thing to Do

The Educational Forum, 1998
(1998). Eliminating the Doctor of Education Degree: It's the Right Thing to Do. The Educational Forum: Vol. 62, No. 3, pp. 243-248.
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Doctor of Nursing Education: Yet Another Doctoral Degree in Nursing?

Nursing Science Quarterly, 2023
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Contesting the culture of the doctoral degree: candidates' experiences of three doctoral degrees in the School of Education, RMIT University

This study is situated within a context of the changing role and value of the university, particularly in terms of a renewed focus on the importance of 'practical' research. It seeks to explore candidates' experiences of the culture of three doctoral research degrees in the School of education, RMIT University. The degrees in question are the Doctor of
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Doctoral education in design, the process of research degree study, and the trained researcher

Art, Design & Communication in Higher Education, 2003
Whilst the contribution to knowledge has long been understood as an outcome of doctoral research, in more recent times the spotlight has increasingly shifted to that other outcome of doctoral education: the trained researcher. The aim of this paper, similarly, is to set aside the epistemological and definitional issues that surround any notion of ...
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Barriers to Completion of the Doctoral Degree in Educational Administration

2014
The primary purpose of this study is to examine the reasons for attrition of doctoral candidates in the College of Human Resources and Education in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.
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Perceptions of U.S. physicians regarding the entry-level doctoral degree in physician assistant education.

Journal of allied health, 2011
Minimal research has been done to determine the appropriateness of entry-level doctoral physician assistant (PA) education. Previously, only PAs, PA faculty, and a small number of PA program medical directors had been surveyed about their perceptions of the Doctorate of Physician Assistant (DPA), and none of these groups supported the DPA as the entry ...
Muma, Richard D., Smith, Barbara S., Anderson, Nickele, Richardson, Micah, Selzer, Erica, White, Rebecca   +5 more
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