Organizational Characteristics and Guidance Efficacy of the U.S.Doctoral Dissertation Committee
With the expansion of doctoral education,transformation of knowledge production mode,and the changes of research paradigm and industrial form,the innovation of cultivation mode becomes as an important issue in the reform of doctoral education.Taking doctoral dissertation committees of American universities as the research object,this paper analyzes the organizational characteristics and guidance efficacy of the dissertation committees with the sorted institutional texts of the dissertation committees of the top 10 American universities or their representative departments in the list of the U.S.News 2021 Best Universities Rankings,relevant research outcomes abroad and interviews with related doctoral students.The analysis shows that the doctoral dissertation committee system in the United States starts its work to meet the needs of students and plays an important role in stimulating knowledge production innovation,improving the quality of dissertations,and promoting the socialization of doctoral students through the individualized,diversified and interdisciplinary guidance relationship it has constructed.
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