Planning Meeting on Indicators of Doctoral Education

美国国家科学院的国家研究理事会（NRC）将举行一次规划会议，讨论建立一个收集和传播研究型博士教育信息的计划。 与会者将包括研究生研究项目，高等教育协会，提供博士课程比较信息的组织的代表，以及其他具有相关知识和专业知识的人。 本次会议将审议目前可获得的关于博士教育的数据范围，以及通过定期数据收集计划可以获得的额外数据的潜在用途。 会议还将考虑这一计划的几个实际方面，包括大学参与的意愿和核管理委员会可能发挥的作用。 计划会议的目的是确定是否有足够的兴趣和期望值从一个正在进行的指标程序，以保证进一步的发展工作。NRC已经进行了三个研究博士学位课程的临时基础上进行的研究，与报告发表在1982年，1995年和2010年。 规划会议将审议这些先前研究的结果，以了解可能纳入正在进行的指标方案的数据类型、构建这些不同类型数据的技术挑战以及提供此类数据对该领域的潜在价值。 特别是，规划会议将考虑使用声誉排名和程序排名的制作，这两种方法在之前的NRC研究中都受到批评。 此外，规划会议将考虑一个正在进行的计划，以提供有关最近已成为可用的新的信息来源，包括商业努力，以提供跨博士课程的出版和引文数据的比较信息的研究博士教育的设计的影响。 更广泛的影响。 一套博士生指标有可能为研究生教育界提供一些好处，包括机构自我改进的基准、高等教育研究的数据以及供决策者和未来学生使用的比较信息。 因此，一个持续的指标计划可以帮助推动研究博士课程质量的大幅提高。

The National Research Council (NRC) of the National Academy of Sciences will hold a planning meeting to discuss the creation of a program to collect and disseminate information about research doctoral education. Participants will include representatives of graduate research programs, higher education associations, organizations that provide comparative information on doctoral programs, and others with relevant knowledge and expertise. This meeting will consider the range of data currently available about doctoral education and the potential uses of additional data that could be obtained with a regular program of data collection. The meeting will also consider several practical aspects of such a program, including the willingness of universities to participate and the possible role of the NRC. The goal of the planning meeting is to determine if there is enough interest in and expected value from an ongoing indicators program to warrant further development work.The NRC has conducted three prior studies of research doctorate programs that were carried out on an ad hoc basis, with reports published in 1982, 1995, and 2010. The planning meeting will consider the results of these prior studies for insights about the types of data that might be included in an ongoing indicators program, the technical challenges in constructing these different types of data, and the potential value to the field of making such data available. In particular, the planning meeting will consider the use of reputational rankings and the production of program rankings, both of which were criticized in the prior NRC studies. In addition the planning meeting will consider the implications for the design of an ongoing program to provide information about research doctoral education of new information sources that have recently become available, including commercial efforts to provide comparative information on publication and citation data across doctoral programs. Broader Impacts. A set of doctoral indicators could potentially provide the graduate education community with a number of benefits, including benchmarks for institutional self-improvement, data for higher education research, and comparative information for policymakers and prospective students. As a result, an ongoing indicator program could help drive substantial increases in the quality of research doctoral programs.