Improving professional IT doctorate completion rates

Australasian Journal of Information Systems

Oliver Kisalay Burmeister¹ 

[1] Charles Sturt University

关键词: Career management;    community of practice;    postgraduate education;    retention;   

DOI  :  10.3127/ajis.v19i0.1073

学科分类：计算机科学（综合）

来源: University of Canberra * Faculty of Information Sciences and Engineering

【 摘 要 】

Professional doctorates in Information Technology (IT) have been a relatively recent phenomenon, giving IT professionals career management choices not previously available to them. However, successful completion rates are the lowest of all disciplines. Completed doctorates rate in quality equivalent to PhDs, and retention has been identified as a major obstacle to completion. This qualitative study, involving 44 semi-structured interviews with students, supervisors and institutional support personnel, investigated the obstacles. Amongst the strategies discovered to improve completion rates were retention, student engagement with supervisors, feedback on progress, student engagement in the course, and student involvement in institutional communities of practice.

【 授权许可】

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