Rethinking doctoral qualifying exams and candidacy in the physical sciences: Learning toward scientific legitimacy
There is growing awareness that established structures of higher education are often predicated on problematic assumptions about merit, excellence, and rigor. Doctoral qualifying exams, for example, are required to advance to candidacy in many Ph.D. programs despite decades of documented concerns ab...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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American Physical Society
2023-08-01
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| Series: | Physical Review Physics Education Research |
| Online Access: | http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevPhysEducRes.19.020110 |