A doctoral project study is one doctoral capstone option, consisting of the doctoral candidate pulling together a faculty-embedded doctoral committee who oversees the doctoral student’s project study, specifically consisting of a research study that guides the design and development of a project outcome. There are normally a minimum of two major checkpoints during a doctoral project study process, initially framing a research prospectus to discuss with the faculty members whom the student desires to join the doctoral study committee, followed by the development of a project study proposal and major checkpoint deemed the project study proposal defense. Finally, after the student completes the study and decides along with the guidance of the committee membership the most appropriate project study outcome as based upon the findings, the concluding major checkpoint deemed to complete the project study is the project study final defense during which the dissertation committee evaluates the doctoral student’s work within a public venue, questions the student, and decides whether the student passes or fails the project study defense.
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Showcasing Dreams, Desires, Vision, Whimsy, Illusion, and Anxious Uncertainty: Understanding Aspects of Perseverance and Determination Towards Doctoral Capstone Successes
Caroline M. Crawford (University of Houston – Clear Lake, USA) and Noran L. Moffett (Fayetteville State University, USA)
Copyright: © 2020
|Pages: 23
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-9707-0.ch010
Abstract
Personalized journeys that reflect the development of deep-seated perseverance and determination characteristics evolve from stresses and traumatic events that may be short-term or longer-term from past experiences, yet still can impact the doctoral candidate's progression through the dissertation journey. A sensitivity towards one's own psychological balance during highly stressful and destabilized beliefs around one's self-efficacy are impactful during the dissertation, potentially subverting and undermining a doctoral candidate's ability to maintain a balanced psychological approach towards anxiety-riddled and stress-inducing cognitive dissonance and engagement. Discussions around the ability to support doctoral candidates during the dissertation journey are highlighted, including perseverance and determination characteristic strengths, weaknesses, and areas of potential growth areas of engaged development, upon the doctoral candidate's personality.