Research-Doctorate Programs in the Biomedical Sciences Selected Findings from the NRC Assessment (2011) / Chapter Skim
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. The data on research productivity that were collected during the study were analyzed in specific ways in the Assessment report, but the full database available to researchers could extend this analysis to explore alternate measures of research productivity by the faculty.
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The committee provided detailed definitions of important data elements used in the study, such as doctoral program faculty, but not every program that responded paid careful attention to these definitions. The committee carried out broad statistical tests, examined outliers, and got back to the institutions when it had questions, but that does not mean it caught every mistake.
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Data on doctoral student satisfaction, productivity, and changes in career objectives in neuroscience and neurobiology (Chapter 6) came from the survey conducted of doctoral students in that and four other sample fields (chemical engineering, physics, economics, and English)
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