An Assessment of Research-Doctorate Programs in the United States Mathematical and Physical Sciences (1982) / Chapter Skim
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IV. Computer Science Programs
IV. Computer Science Programs
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On the average, 41 full-time and part-time students intending to earn doctorates were enrolled in program in December 1980, with an average faculty size of 16 members.2 Most of the 58 programs, listed in Table 4.1, are located in computer science or computer and information science departments. Approximately 20 percent are found in departments of electrical engineering.
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For measures 04-07, which pertain to characteristics of the program graduates, data are presented for only approximately half of the programs; the other half had too few graduates on which to base statistics .4 For measure 12, a composite index of the size of a university library, data are available for 49 programs; for measure 14, total university expenditures for research in this discipline, data are available for 44 programs. The programs not evaluated on measures 12 and 14 are typically smaller -- in terms of faculty size and graduate student enrollment -- than other computer science programs.
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To assist the reader in interpreting results of the survey evaluations, estimated standard errors have been computed for mean ratings of the scholarly quality of faculty in 57 computer science programs (and are given in Table 4.1~. For each program the mean rating and an associated "confidence interval" of 1.5 standard errors are illustrated in Figure 4.3 (listed in order of highest to lowest mean rating)
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1.7 1.1 1.0 0.5 0.3 .25 355 10 .12 .10 .11 .07 41 43 44 41 49 44 45 4242 020. 0.9 0.6 0.9 0.2 NA NA 153 13 .13 .11 .10 .04 33 33 41 34 43 4342 NOTE: On the first line of data for every program, raw values for each measure are reported; on the second line values are reported in standardized form, with mean a 50 and standard deviation ~ 10.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology 34 62 135 .23 6.4 .77 .39 El ectrical Engineering and Computer Science 71 71 73 55 51 47 50 024. Massachusetts, University of-Amherst 16 16 70 .00 5.4 .82 .36 Computer and Information Sciences*
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74 University Library 12 .49 .16 .52 .52 Research Suppor t 13 14 Publication Records 15 16 .10 .32 .35 .66 .73 .98 NOTE: Since in computing correlation coefficients program data must be available for both of the measures being correlated, the actual number of programs on which each coefficient is based varies.
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-- 57 programs in computer sciences.
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-- 56 programs in computer sciences.
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72 TABLE 4.4 Characteristics of Survey Participants in Computer Sciences Respondents N% Field of Specialization Computer Sciences9992 Other/Unknown98 Faculty Rank Professor4138 Associate Professor3230 Assistant Professor3432 Other/Unknown11 Year of Highest Degree Pre-195033 1950-591110 1960-693028 Post-19696358 Unknown11 Evaluator Selection Nominated by Institution8175 Other2725 Survey Form With Faculty Names9790 Without Names1110 Total Evaluators108100 l
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indicate a confidence interval of +1.5 standard errors around the reported mean (x) of each program.
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