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2006 NRC Assessment of Research Doctorate Programs      -   revised 12/4/06 

Student Questionnaire

Finalized 11/03/06 - click here for final questionnaire in pdf.  The student questionnaire has received both NRC and University of Iowa institutional IRB approval .  Post-comp students in five UI doctorate programs (Chemical Engineering, Economics, English, Neuroscience, and Physics) will be sent the Student Questionnaire by email.  The Graduate College will provide a list of student names, their uiowa email address, and the campus mail address of their doctorate program.  Students will be contacted by email directly by Mathematic Policy Research, the data management firm working with NRC.  Student participation in the survey is entirely voluntary.  Neither the student's program nor the  Graduate College will be informed whether or not a student completes the survey.  Students who have chosen to block their directory information as covered by FERPA will not receive a survey.

The questionnaire covers the following areas:  prior education, post-graduate plans, professional development, resources, and demographic characteristics.  This questionnaire is "experimental" in the sense that NRC will not report data from it by program if they receive low response rates. 

The completed questionnaires are due from students no later than April 1, 2007.

Questions/suggestions may be directed to:
     john-keller@uiowa.edu or
     caroline-mast@uiowa.edu