Supervisor’s feedback is both a naysaying and a puzzling concern that has always tormented academics in higher education. Particularly, written feedback on pre-final or final versions of a submitted doctoral dissertation is indisputably the most significant step toward granting a doctoral student supervisee the right to defend his/her research project. It also constitutes a rich source on how s...

In recent years, there has been a concern that the Internet has been contributing to a growth in student plagiarism. This paper reports on a study aimed at investigating if there were differences between plagiarism levels in doctoral dissertations submitted by students enrolled at traditional, brick-and-mortar institutions and those by students attending online counterparts. A sample of 368 dis...

OBJECTIVE This paper describes the Lamar Soutter Library's process and costs associated with digitizing 300 doctoral dissertations for a newly implemented institutional repository at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. METHODOLOGY Project tasks included identifying metadata elements, obtaining and tracking permissions, converting the dissertations to an electronic format, and coor...

This paper summarizes the results of a panel discussion offering advice to doctoral students in advancing through their programs and getting a start on their career. The panel was held at the 2003 Annual Conference of the Southern Association for Information Systems, and panelists included senior MIS faculty members who, combined, have chaired over 80 dissertations. Topics included choosing a d...

Pub Date 67 Note-94p. Abstracts are presented for 140 masters' theses and doctoral dissertations in the area of family relations and child development completed in 1%6 at 32 institutions. They are grouped according to the age of the subjects used in the investigations. Child development studies are classified as infant and young child, elementary school age, adolescent, and miscellaneous; famil...