Doctoral Persistence Paper

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The topic for this study will be Doctoral Persistence. Doctoral persistence is “the continuance of a student’s progress toward the completion of a doctoral degree” (Bair, 1999, p. 8). Doctoral Persistence will be researched and utilized with the Phenomenology research design. In applying Phenomenology research design and answering the following questions. First providing a description of the Phenomenology design and when it is appropriate to incorporate into research. It will describe challenges that Phenomenology research can reflect experience. Illustrate a problem statement pertaining to our theme of doctoral persistence of business students. Present two qualitative research questions that reflect Phenomenology design. Finally formulate …show more content…

This often are topics that lack evidence found through literal reviews. As described by Creswell (2018) is the common meaning for several individual of their lived experiences of a concept or a phenomenon. Another example is by Van Manen, (1990, p. 177). Phenomenologists focus on describing what all participants have in common as they experience a phenomenon (e.g., grief is universally experienced). The basic purpose of phenomenology is to reduce individual experiences with a phenomenon to a description of the universal essence (a “grasp of the very nature of the thing”). The main focus is to gather all the individuals experience and analyze the consensus. Phenomenology due to its complexity it is considered both qualitative and quantitative. It is best used when the author wants to gather data to understand the emotions behind individual’s experiences. This type of research is excellent to try and understand a group. This type of research benefits groups of teachers, health care workers, therapist and government in charge of writing polices. The data can help these groups better understand experience of a group of …show more content…

University persistently has faced dropout rates of 40-70% depending on the literature review according to Bair, C. R., & Howorth, J.G. (1990). Doctoral Persistence is a topic that resumes as a research topic by scholars. The insufficiency of Doctoral Persistence is showing up to 60% of doctoral students will not acquire their degree. There are several causes and cannot be defined by one specific reason. Researchers have attempted to conduct several studies throughout varies environments to comprehend this epidemic. Golde, C. M. (2005) states that 40% of students who begin their doctoral program will not complete it. How can Universities retain doctoral students in their programs and decrease dropout rates by

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