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Record W178642282

The Changing Career Preferences of Doctoral Students.

2005· article· en· W178642282 on OpenAlexaff
Brigitte Gemme

Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldHealth Professions
TopicDoctoral Education Challenges and Solutions
Canadian institutionsUniversité du Québec à Montréal
Fundersnot available
KeywordsCommonwealthMainstreamTheme (computing)Public relationsPolitical sciencePerspective (graphical)Career PathwaysPoliticsPedagogySociologyEconomicsLaw
DOInot available

Abstract

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What do doctoral students want? What is the type of career that they wish to embrace after they obtain the PhD? These questions have become of importance to higher education policymakers over the past 20 years as claims that we are entering the ‘knowledge economy’ became mainstream and ‘knowledge producers’ were found to be produced in universities. In the United States as well as in European and Commonwealth countries, many manifestos promote transformations in doctoral education, usually suggesting that the acquisition of ‘generic skills’ become a central part of the program so that graduates can put their knowledge to effective use outside academia. But, of course, students must be attracted by such opportunities, so another central theme is the need to change the doctoral students’ perspective about the job market: tenure-track positions in research universities are not the only way to go for PhDs and other career options must be considered, including jobs in industry. On the other hand, the authors of an equally abundant literature condemn these trends and voices fears that, by being too integrated to economic and political spheres, academics will put an end to their specific, original contribution to society as its disinterested critics.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.677
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.343
GPT teacher head0.558
Teacher spread0.215 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Published2005
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