guide for preparation of prospectuses and...

Guide for Preparation of Prospectuses and Dissertations

5th Edition

This document was revised and approved by the College of Education

September 1, 2007

The format of this document does not follow APA or Turabian style. Please do not use the format style

for this Guide as an example for your dissertation.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Page INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................................

PART 1...........................................................................................................................................................6

OVERVIEW...............................................................................................................................................6 WHAT IS A PROSPECTUS? .........................................................................................................................6 TIMELINE FOR PROSPECTUS......................................................................................................................6 WHAT IS A DISSERTATION? .......................................................................................................................7 TIMELINE FOR DOCTORAL CANDIDATES ...................................................................................................8

PART 2...........................................................................................................................................................9

SELECTING A DISSERTATION FORMAT .........................................................................................9 TRADITIONAL FORMAT ...............................................................................................................................9 REVIEW AND RESEARCH FORMAT ...........................................................................................................

PART 3.........................................................................................................................................................11

RESEARCH FORMAT..........................................................................................................................11 HISTORICAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL PERSPECTIVES .................................................................................11 MEASUREMENT METHODOLOGY..............................................................................................................12 QUALITATIVE RESEARCH .........................................................................................................................12 QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH.......................................................................................................................13 SINGLE–SUBJECT METHODOLOGY .........................................................................................................14

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PUBLICATION STYLE .........................................................................................................................15 A.P.A. STYLE...........................................................................................................................................15 TURABIAN STYLE .....................................................................................................................................16 OTHER PUBLICATION STYLES .................................................................................................................16

PART 5.........................................................................................................................................................17

PREPARING AND PRESENTING THE PROSPECTUS .................................................................17 ELEMENTS OF THE PROSPECTUS ............................................................................................................17 PROTECTION OF HUMAN AND ANIMAL SUBJECTS ..................................................................................17 ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE PROSPECTUS PRESENTATION ........................................................................18 PRESENTING THE PROSPECTUS ..............................................................................................................18 ADMISSION TO DOCTORAL CANDIDACY ..................................................................................................19

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PREPARING AND DEFENDING THE DISSERTATION .................................................................20 ELEMENTS OF THE DISSERTATION ..........................................................................................................20 DISSERTATION ABSTRACT.......................................................................................................................20 ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE DISSERTATION DEFENSE ................................................................................22 DEFENDING THE DISSERTATION ..............................................................................................................23 DEGREE COMPLETION .............................................................................................................................23

PART 7.........................................................................................................................................................24

PREPARING THE FINAL DOCUMENT .............................................................................................24 PRELIMINARY PAGES ............................................................................................................................... ACCEPTANCE PAGE .................................................................................................................................25 AUTHOR’S STATEMENT............................................................................................................................26

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NOTICE TO BORROWERS .........................................................................................................................26 VITA ..........................................................................................................................................................26 ABSTRACT ................................................................................................................................................27 TITLE PAGE ..............................................................................................................................................27 COPYRIGHT PAGE OR BLANK PAGE .......................................................................................................28 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS...............................................................................................................................29 TABLE OF CONTENTS...............................................................................................................................29 LIST OF TABLES .......................................................................................................................................30 LIST OF FIGURES......................................................................................................................................30 LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS .........................................................................................................................30 MAIN BODY ..............................................................................................................................................31 REFERENCE MATERIALS..........................................................................................................................31 APPENDIXES .............................................................................................................................................32

PART 8.........................................................................................................................................................33

FORMATTING OF TEXT ......................................................................................................................33 MARGINS ..................................................................................................................................................33 PAGE NUMBERING ...................................................................................................................................34 CHAPTER HEADINGS AND SUBHEADINGS ...............................................................................................34 LINE SPACING ..........................................................................................................................................35 CHARACTER SPACING .............................................................................................................................35 TABLES, GRAPHS, FIGURES, AND OTHER ILLUSTRATIVE MATERIALS...................................................35 PROOFREADING AND EDITING .................................................................................................................36

PART 9.........................................................................................................................................................37

SUBMITTING THE DIGITAL DOCUMENT ........................................................................................37 CREATING YOUR ACCOUNT .....................................................................................................................37 SUBMITTING PDF.....................................................................................................................................37 FEES .........................................................................................................................................................38 MICROFILMING..........................................................................................................................................38 COPYRIGHT SERVICE ...............................................................................................................................38 SURVEY OF EARNED DOCTORATES.........................................................................................................38 BINDING ....................................................................................................................................................38

PART 10 ......................................................................................................................................................39

SAMPLE PRELIMINARY PAGES ......................................................................................................39

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Introduction

The purpose of this guide is to provide faculty and doctoral students in the College of Education at Georgia State University with rules and suggestions for preparing a dissertation prospectus and, subsequently, a dissertation in partial fulfillment of the requirements of the Doctor of Philosophy degree. The guide provides a general description of the dissertation and provides formatting options related to the purposes and methodology of the student’s research. It also describes the requirements for completing the preparation and publication of the dissertation.

Successful production and defense of a dissertation is the culminating event of the student’s doctoral program. The College of Education faculty provides this guide to facilitate the substantive and technical aspects of those activities. The student’s Dissertation Advisory Committee is responsible for facilitating thoughtful and scholarly development of dissertation content.

Academic policies related to the doctoral program are published in the College of Education section of the Graduate Catalog. The calendar of important dates for Doctoral student’s dissertation deadline dates is available on line at http://education.gsu.edu/OAA/ and from the Office of Academic Assistance and Graduate Admissions (404/413-8000; 300 College of Education Bldg).

Each student is expected to use the version of the Guide for Preparing Prospectus and Dissertations most recently adopted by the college at the time of successful completion.

Each doctoral student is responsible for the production of an appropriately formatted dissertation and for the digitizing of that dissertation so that it may be disseminated in accordance with college and university regulations. The signatures of the student’s Dissertation Advisory Committee members and of the Chair of the student’s department on the Acceptance page signify their assurance that the final document and the student’s defense of that document meet the college’s standards for excellence and scholarship. The signature of the Dean of the College of Education indicates the college’s official acceptance of the dissertation and its determination that the doctoral student is eligible to receive his or her Doctorate.

By producing a well-conceived, well-researched, and well presented dissertation, the student demonstrates his or her own ability as a scholar and an educational professional. The College of Education faculty provides this guide to help each doctoral student achieve that accomplishment.

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PART 1

OVERVIEW

What is a Prospectus? The prospectus is a research proposal describing how the doctoral

student intends to conduct an inquiry appropriate for dissertation research. The prospectus provides evidence of the significance of and rationale for the proposed study. To reflect the student’s preparation to conduct the investigation and write the dissertation, the prospectus describes the philosophical/theoretical knowledge base within which the dissertation topic has been developed, the methodology and the procedures to be employed, and the expected implications of findings or conclusions. The prospectus provides the student’s committee members an opportunity to provide input, recommendations, and directions before the study has commenced.

The prospectus includes a literature review related to the proposed topic of study. It should demonstrate that the student can confidently discuss published research and, when appropriate, evaluate the theory pertinent to the selection of the research topic and the methodology proposed. The literature review in the prospectus differs from the literature review in the dissertation because the latter may be affected by the findings of the student study and because the student will have the opportunity to provide more recent research in the dissertation literature review. Nonetheless, in the prospectus literature review, the student should summarize and critique existing research as appropriate to the field of study.

Each student must orally present his or her prospectus to the Dissertation Advisory Committee. The purpose of this presentation is to allow the faculty to comment on the significance of the proposed inquiry and to judge the quality of the proposed study and the student’s ability to complete the investigation.

Although components of the prospectus may be incorporated into the student’s dissertation, the dissertation is a separate document. The specific format of the prospectus is determined by the needs of the student and the dissertation Advisory Committee within the guidelines described in Part 5 of this guide.

Timeline for Prospectus Preparation of the prospectus generally begins as the student is

completing his or her program course work and successful completion of the comprehensive exam. The steps outlined below are common steps in the completion of the prospectus requirement; they are provided as a guide, and the college’s faculty recognizes that deviations may be necessary for some students.

• The student prepares the prospectus report in conjunction with the Dissertation Advisory Committee.

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• If the inquiry involves human participants, then a completed Protection of Human Subjects form must submitted to the Institutional Review Board (http://www.gsu.edu/research/human_subjects.html).

• The student submits an Announcement of Prospectus Presentation with a copy of the prospectus to the Office of Academic Assistance and Graduate Admissions at least 10 working days prior to the presentation. Announcement instructions and form are available at http://education.gsu.edu/OAA/ Click on the Current Students link to begin. The form is also available in the Office of Academic Assistance and Graduate Admissions.

• A copy of the form is placed on the OAA website to give faculty and staff the opportunity to review the proposal (available through the Faculty link).

• The student presents his or her prospectus to the Dissertation Advisory Committee and other invited faculty and guests.

• The student submits a completed Recommendation to Doctoral Candidacy form to the Office of Academic Assistance and Graduate Admissions upon successful presentation of the prospectus and all other requirements for doctoral candidacy. This form is available through the Forms link on the OAA webpages.

What is a Dissertation? The culminating product of a student’s doctoral program, the dissertation

is a substantial work of research that contributes significantly to the student’s field of study. Developed through disciplined inquiry, the dissertation is the student’s original contribution to knowledge in his or her field. Additionally, each dissertation must demonstrate the student’s

• expertise in his or her field of study and the student’s ability to identify a significant research problem with his or her field of study,

• ability to design and implement inquiry appropriate to the identified problem,

• ability to present and synthesize the result of his or her inquiry, • ability to draw informed conclusions from the synthesis of inquiry

results, and • understanding of the relevance of his or her conclusions to his or her

field of study and implications for future inquiry.

Additionally, the student must orally defend his or her dissertation to his or her committee as well as to the faculty and guests invited by the committee. The main purpose of the defense is to allow an opportunity for the faculty of the college to comment on the quality of the investigation and to judge the student’s ability to defend his or her conclusions.

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Timeline for Doctoral Candidates The steps outlined below are common steps in the completion of the dissertation requirement. They are provided as a guide, and the college’s faculty recognize that deviations may be necessary for some students.

• After successful presentation of the prospectus, begin the inquiry.

• Prepare the dissertation. Questions regarding the interpretation of the technical formatting guidelines (Part 8) should be addressed to the Office of Academic Assistance and Graduate Admissions (404/413-8000).

• Produce a review copy of the dissertation. All Dissertation Advisory Committee members must have an opportunity to read and comment on the dissertation text before the review copy is submitted to the Office of Academic Assistance and Graduate Admissions. Check with your major advisor on his or her timeline needed for review.

• Submit an Announcement of Dissertation Defense form and a review copy (preferably in MS Word) to the Office of Academic Assistance and Graduate Admissions at least 10 working days prior to the defense.

[The Office of Academic Assistance and Graduate Admissions will post the review copy on the OAAGA Faculty pages on its website. The OAAGA staff will also review the copy for compliance with this guide in terms of formatting and presentation style. You will receive an email outlining any needed changes.]

• Defend the review copy of the dissertation before the Dissertation Advisory Committee and other invited faculty and guests.

• Make any additional corrections required by the Dissertation Advisory Committee or the Office of Academic Assistance and Graduate Admissions to produce the final document. The Dissertation Advisory Committee members must sign your Acceptance Page using blue ink.

• Convert the final document into Portable Document Format (PDF) and submit it on a CD-ROM to the OAAGA advisor.

• Upload a copy of the same PDF file to the Library Server as instructed on the ETD website (and later in this guide).

• Consult with the Dissertation Advisory Committee to determine if hard or bound copies will be needed for the department or the committee members.

• Arrange for preparation of bound copies with the National Library Bindery in Roswell, GA.

PART 2

SELECTING A DISSERTATION FORMAT

The College of Education accepts dissertations in two formats: a traditional format that is organized into chapters like a book or a review and research format that consists of two separate scholarly manuscripts.

The student and his or her committee must agree on the dissertation format the student will use to present the dissertation. Ultimately, the decision on chapters and headings as they will appear in the student’s work is made by the student’s Dissertation Advisory Committee.

Regardless of the dissertation format the student uses, the candidate must include a literature review that is comprehensive in regard to the topic of investigation. The student should write the review so that an informed reader would be convinced that the author has a firm grasp of the subject area related to the investigation. For example, the studies included in the review should be critiqued to some extent. The critique of the literature should lead the author to weigh some theories, positions, or findings more than others in the review. Furthermore, the student should identify which previous studies are most directly related to the findings of this particular study. These studies should be thoroughly reviewed since they will be referenced again when the dissertation findings are integrated with previous literature in the study’s conclusions.

Traditional Format The traditional format is designed to present empirical inquiry, qualitative

investigations, or historical-philosophical scholarship in a professional manner in keeping with the college’s standards of significance and academic rigor. Each student who produces a dissertation adhering to this format must address specific areas within the dissertation and organize the dissertation so that the text presents these topics as well as demonstrates the author’s competence as a researcher or scholar. The five required areas for a traditional-format dissertation are

• introduction of the problem, including a description of its significance; • review of the literature relevant to the problem; • description of the research methodology use to examine the problem; • presentation of the results of the study; and • discussion and analysis of the results of the study in light of existing

knowledge and of implications of the result on future research in the field.

The student may include additional chapters or divide one or more of the identified areas into multiple chapters in the manner that he or she and the Dissertation Advisory Committee believe best present the results of the dissertation inquiry.

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Review and Research Format Use of this format results in a comprehensive literature review manuscript

and a focused research manuscript. The literature review is a broadly conceived comprehensive review that is not limited by the typically more narrowly defined inquiry of the research manuscript. Some of the topics covered in the literature review manuscript will be referred to in the research manuscript to provide background for the original inquiry presented in the research manuscript. The review manuscript Table of Contents provided in Part 10 provides guidance regarding content of the review.

The research manuscript is a research article written in a format appropriate for submission to a scholarly journal. This manuscript represents an original contribution by advancing knowledge in the area of inquiry. It is recommended (although not required) that a scholarly journal to which the manuscript could be submitted be identified prior to completion of the dissertation. Because the research manuscript may be limited by the number of manuscript pages that a journal typically accepts, additional material related to conducting the research may be included in appendixes (e.g., additional tables, information regarding computer programs, details on coding, information about primary sources) so that the research document will be fully documented. The organization of the research manuscript will follow the expectations of the field as represented by article in scholarly journals.

Before the student is admitted to candidacy, the Dissertation Advisory Committee must approve the use of the review and research format. At the discretion of the student’s committee, an introductory section or chapter may be included in the review and research format dissertation. This section functions in the same way as the first chapter of a traditional format dissertation. In it, the student identifies an unmet need, describes the problem to be investigated, and indicates the method of inquiry. This chapter links the review manuscript to the research manuscript.

If one or both manuscripts are not in A.P.A. or Turabian style, then the student is responsible for providing a copy of the style guidelines for the manuscripts when submitting the Word review copy and the dissertation defense announcement. These style guidelines will be returned to the student following the defense.

The student’s committee may establish additional requirements. These requirements may change depending on the nature of the questions being investigated or the field of study, the nature of the student’s methodology, or the nature of the results of the investigations.

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PART 3

RESEARCH FORMAT

With the guidance of the Dissertation Advisory Committee, the student should present the results of his or her inquiry in an appropriately professional manner. The philosophical perspective, research methodology, and the field of study all contribute to the student’s selection of the presentation format.

The formats described below are organized according to methodology and are provided for guidance only. Students are not required to adhere to the following formats as presented; in fact, many students will find that a combination of elements from these formats is needed to present their inquiry results. The student and the Dissertation Advisory Committee will decide on the best means of presenting those results.

Historical and Philosophical Perspectives A student who writes a historical or philosophical dissertation may employ

any of a variety of research methods. Historical research typically includes archival investigations, although oral history interviews and quantitative analysis are also common. In the case of quantitative analysis, historical research most often uses descriptive methods. Philosophical inquiry often presents comparative and contrasting assessments of philosophical arguments, although such inquiry may also incorporate a critical examination of contemporary or historical events. Whether an analysis is historical, philosophical, or both, the student should expect to offer a careful development of evidence (as well as account for evidence countering the arguments of the dissertation) that leads to a rigorous argument about the nature of the problem.

The manner in which the author has organized the dissertation highlights the nature of historical or philosophical inquiry. How a student approaches his or her topic, whether it is historical or philosophical or related to some other field, depends on how he or she looks at the problem. Both the question and the supporting secondary questions establish the form of the dissertation, not a style manual. In this sense, the dissertation is very much the student’s work in both presentation and content. College of Education students who write dissertations using historical and philosophical methods typically use Turabian style (see Part 4).

Thus, for a historical dissertation, the student may choose to follow a chronological pattern, and the chapters and their titles would reflect that pattern. Alternatively, the author might want to highlight themes across the years and use those themes to organize the dissertation. In a similar vein, a student writing a philosophical dissertation could use various philosophical perspectives to organize the analysis of the problem, with each perspective serving as a chapter. Another approach would be a thematic development according to one philosophical framework, with the progression of chapters flowing from the secondary arguments as they develop from the primary argument. The student should consult with the Dissertation Advisory Committee regarding the

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organization of the dissertation early and throughout the process of writing the dissertation.

Measurement Methodology Measurement research promotes greater understanding and improved

use of measurement techniques in education, psychology, and related fields. Its intended audience includes researchers and practitioners who are likely to have an impact on educational and psychological measurement practice.

A student using measurement methodology may choose to examine an existing problem and offer a solution, or he or she may compare and contrast existing measurement techniques to make an original recommendation. It is also possible to develop a measurement instrument. The research problem a student chooses should be consistent with a problem found in the current measurement research literature. For this reason, the student is encouraged to perform a thorough review of current research in educational and psychological measurement publications before selecting a topic.

The methodology to examine measurement problems often but not always includes a computer simulation (referred to as a Monte Carlo method) in which psychometric properties are examined under known conditions. It is also often the case that a real data set from actual testing is used as part of the investigation.

The organization of the dissertation may follow general guidelines (see Part 10), but deviations may be necessary to accommodate specific measurement problems. Specific details can be obtained from the student’s Dissertation Advisory Committee. The student is also encouraged to examine the format used in previous measurement methodology dissertations as available on the Georgia State Library ETD site.

Qualitative Research A qualitative researcher focuses on capturing the individual or local

perspective through observing, interviewing, and collecting artifacts. The candidate generally writes his or her reports in the first person. Qualitative methods emphasize qualities, entities, processes, and meanings that are not experimentally examined or measured in terms of quantity, amount, intensity, or frequency.

A qualitative researcher considers how social experience is created and given meaning by analysis of the socially constructed nature of reality, the relationship between the researcher and what he or she has chosen to study, and the situational constraints that shape the inquiry. Some qualitative researchers employ a positivist or post-positivist theoretical framework and thus may use statistical measures, methods, and documents in their data collection, but they do not generally report their findings in terms of complex statistical measures and methods characteristic of quantitative studies. Other qualitative researchers may situation their work in a postmodern, critical constructivist, and/or post structural framework. These scholars may emphasize verisimilitude, emotionality, personal responsibility, an ethic of caring, political praxis,

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multivocality, and dialogue, and they may use ethnographic prose, historical narratives, first-person accounts, still photographs, life histories, and biographical and autobiographical texts to represent their findings. They take into account the local constraints of everyday life, and their texts provide rich descriptions of the research settings.

The criteria by which faculty evaluate qualitative research include a clear statement of the theoretical framework guiding the study, a discussion of the researcher’s epistemological assumptions and interpretations, documentation of rigorous methodology, and contextualizing appropriate to the task. In general, the dissertation should include

• the problems or issues under study, the guiding questions, the rationale or purpose of the study, and the conceptual or theoretical framework;

• a review of the literature (see Part 2 of this Guide); • the context or background of the study, the role of the researcher, and

such issues as ethics, reciprocity, and negotiating entrée: He or she should also identify the participants, review the data collection, management, and analysis to provide a summary; and

• present the results of the inquiry and offer discussion or a conclusion in which is examined connections to previous findings, implications and limitations, and suggestions for further research.

The number of chapters and the organization of content should be consistent with the student’s theoretical framework, design of the study, and interpretation of the results as established. The author should discuss specific details with the Dissertation Advisory Committee early in the process. The student is also encouraged to examine the formats used in previous qualitative dissertations.

Quantitative Research Studies using quantitative methods employ statistical or other numerical

analyses to examine data. Data for these studies are identified by the assignment of numbers to phenomena.

The research design underlying the way in which data are collected influences the type of statistical or numerical analyses appropriate and the strength of the conclusions that can be drawn from the research. Some of the research designs for group data include experimental designs, quasi-experimental designs, descriptive statistical analyses, correlation designs, survey research, and ex post facto designs. Quantitative analysis used in these designs include descriptive analyses, sampling methods, estimation procedures, statistical hypothesis testing, probability, numerical modeling, prediction modeling, analyses of latent traits, clustering techniques, causal statistical and other software tools make the computational phase of data analysis more efficient. The interpretation of results is guided by standards for quantitative educational and psychological research which have evolved from the canons of scientific practice.

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An outline that provides some ideas for typical sections in a quantitative research dissertation is provided in Part 10. These sections could be chapters in a traditional dissertation format or sections in the research manuscript for the review and research dissertation format. Each student should work closely with the Dissertation Advisory Committee to develop an outline appropriate to his or her particular topic.

Single–Subject Methodology Single-subject research is a methodology for the study of behavior from

the perspective of Applied Behavior Analysis. Its research tools are used in an attempt to answer questions of clinical importance to the participants across disciplines (e.g., education, developmental disabilities, criminal justice, and health care). The focus is on the interaction between the behavior of an individual (or set of individuals) and the environmental antecedents or consequences of the behavior. Through the collection of serial data and its graphic analysis, the researcher using single-subject methodology attempts to determine the presence or absence of a functional relationship between a dependent variable and an independent variable.

Basic single-subject research designs include the Withdrawal Design, Multiple Baseline Design, Alternating Treatments Design, Multi-Element Design, Changing Criterion Design, and Changing Conditions Design. Data are graphed and subjected to visual analysis. Visual inspection and interpretation of graphed data involve the assessment of performance overlap across phases, and the rapidity of behavior change. Some single-subject researchers are proponents of the application of nonparametric statistical analysis in addition to the use of visual graphic analysis. For general formatting guidance, the student is referred to the Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis.

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PART 4

PUBLICATION STYLE

For a student who is writing a dissertation in the traditional format, the Dissertation Advisory Committee will select either A.P.A. style as described in Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (6th ed.) or Turabian style as described in A Manual for Writers of Term Papers, Theses, and Dissertations (6th ed.) by Kate L. Turabian. (Each style is discussed in more detail below.) The dissertation should conform to the instructions and specifications of the manual selected, as appropriate; however, where those specifications differ from statements in this Guide, the requirements of this Guide supersede those of the published style manual.

A student using a review and research format for the dissertation must adhere to the publication guidelines of the journal selected by the student and the Dissertation Advisory Committee for each of the manuscripts. The journal or journals to which the manuscripts will be submitted should serve as the major guides for formatting the two manuscript sections of the dissertation. An exception to this rule is that tables, figures, and graphs must be included in the body of the text as described in Part 9 of this Guide. Typically, a journal requires that such items be submitted separately from or at the end of the paper.

A.P.A. Style

American Psychological Association. (2010). Publication manual of the American Psychological Association (6th ed.). Washington, DC: Author.

A.P.A. style is commonly used in scholarly educational and psychological journals, particularly by authors who are presenting the results of empirical studies. Among other characteristics of research, the style emphasizes specificity and sensitivity in describing the procedures and participants of an inquiry.

• All citations in the text must appear in the references list.

• All sources in the references list must appear as citations in the text.

• References list entries should have a hanging indent. (See Chapter 6 of the publication manual for additional information on references and citation formatting.)

• Parenthetical or supplemental information should be incorporated into the text where possible.

• Only with the approval of the Dissertation Advisory Committee should a formal footnote appear in the dissertation.

• Dissertation authors may not use endnotes.

• Headings should appear on the same page as immediately subsequent text. Level 1 headings should be centered, boldface, and double-spaced.

• A single space should appear after every period except abbreviations. (Note that initials of personal names are not considered abbreviations.) One period is required after the


period at the end of a sentence; however, you may put two spaces after the period at the end of a sentence as long as you do it consistently for all sentences.

Turabian Style

Turabian, Kate L. A Manual for Writers of Term Papers, Theses, and Dissertations, 6th ed. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1993.

Turabian style was originally designed to guide students in the preparation of formal papers in the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences. It is based on The Chicago Manual of Style, published by the University of Chicago Press, and it is used primarily by students whose investigations involve historical, philosophical, or sociological perspectives, although any student may choose to use it as his or her style guide with the approval of his or her Dissertation Advisory Committee.

One of the advantages of using Turabian style is that it relies heaving on footnoting within the text of the paper. Footnoting provides the author with the opportunity to evaluate citations, to suggest other secondary areas to consider about a point, and to expand upon comments the author has made in the text. The author uses footnotes to evaluate both the literature and his or her own work by clarifying what he or she thinks are the nuances of the problem.

Footnotes should be single-spaced with a blank line (or halfline) between each footnote. A footnote must appear on the same page on which it is referred to in the text.

Other Publication Styles

Students using the review and research format must use the publication style appropriate to the journals to which they intend to submit their manuscripts. In addition to the style exceptions described above, all reference citations in the text must appear in the references list, and all citations on the list of references must appear in the text.

If you are using a style other than A.P.A. or Turabian, you are responsible for providing a copy of the style requirements to the Office of Academic Assistance and Graduate Admissions when you submit your review copy and your dissertation defense announcement.

PART 5

PREPARING AND PRESENTING THE PROSPECTUS

Elements of the Prospectus The prospectus report (or “prospectus”) includes an introduction to the

topic to be investigated, a review of the literature pertinent to the topic, and a description of the methodology and procedures to be used to investigate the topic. (The emergent nature of some investigations will require a revision of the literature review once the investigation is complete.) The prospectus report includes the following preliminary pages:

• Abstract • Title Page • Table of Contents • List of Tables (if applicable) • List of Figures (if applicable) • List of Abbreviations (if applicable)

Examples of these pages are provided in Part 10, and additional information on each of them is provided in Part 7 of this guide.

When describing the methodology and procedures to be used in the inquiry, the student should include a projected schedule of inquiry activities.

The prospectus report should also include a complete reference list. All sources cited in the text must appear in the reference list, and only works in the reference list may be cited in the text. The prospectus report typically does not include any appendixes; however, a student may include one or more appendixes with the approval of his or her Dissertation Advisory Committee.

Protection of Human and Animal Subjects All research conducted by students must be approved by the student’s

Dissertation Advisory Committee prior to the student’s beginning the research. In addition to approval from the committee, a student who plans to conduct research pertaining to human or animal subjects must receive additional approval in accordance with federal protection of human and animal subject requirements.

The human subject protection policy applies only to research with human subjects who are live individuals about whom the researcher obtains data through intervention or interaction and identifiable private information.

A student whose planned research meets one of these criteria for the protection of human subjects must submit an Application for Approval of Research Project Involving Human Subjects from http://www.gsu.edu/research/human_subjects.html. Additional information is available at http://www.gsu.edu/research/manuals.html.

A student whose planned research involves the use of animals must complete the required Laboratory Animal Training Association Educational and Training Program. In addition, the student must insure that a Research Protocol

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for Animal Care and Use has been approved by the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee. Additional information is available at www.gsu.edu/research/iacuc.html

Prospectus Abstract The abstract for the prospectus announcement should • begin with a clear and comprehensive statement of the problem to be

investigated or the topic of study; • include a description of the methodology to be used in the investigation

or study, including the full names and references for any formal instruments or analytical software to be used;

• describe pertinent characteristics of participants if they are known; • describe the research paradigm the researcher will be using to analyze

or to describe the results of the study; and • describe the significance of the study to the researcher’s field. Regardless of the publication style the student is using to write the

dissertation, he or she is encouraged to consult the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (5th ed.) for additional guidelines for writing abstracts.

Announcement of the Prospectus Presentation The Guidelines for Announcement of Prospectus Presentation, as well as

the Announcement of the Prospectus Presentation form are available in the student’s academic department or online at http://education.gsu.edu/OAA and click on Current Students link. At least 10 working days prior to the scheduled presentation of the dissertation prospectus, the following items must be submitted to the Office of Academic Assistance and Graduate Admissions:

• one copy of the prospectus that will be made available for faculty review on the Office of Academic Assistance and Graduate Admissions website;

• the original and 20 copies of the Announcement of the Prospectus Presentation, which will be disseminated to the faculty of the College of Education.

The prospectus presentation announcement includes the data and location of the presentation, a listing of the members of the student’s Dissertation Advisory Committee, and a prospectus abstract of no more than 350 words. A student who is preparing a review and research format dissertation is not required to include the abstract of the review article manuscript on the prospectus presentation announcement.

Presenting the Prospectus The prospectus presentation is scheduled on the main campus of Georgia

State University during any academic term, between the first day of classes and the last day of final examinations, excluding holidays and term breaks. Neither the prospectus presentation nor the dissertation defense can be scheduled during a time when the university is not in session. The prospectus presentation

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must be attended by no fewer than four members of the student’s Dissertation Advisory Committee and is open to all College of Education faculty and invited guests. The committee will invite other faculty and guests to present to communicate to the candidate and the committee their professional reactions and suggestions.

Approval of the dissertation prospectus requires a favorable vote of a majority of the Dissertation Advisory Committee, but the majority must include no fewer than four members regardless of the size of the committee. At its discretion, the committee may require substantial changes to the prospectus after the presentation but before the prospectus is approved. In such a case, the prospectus must be revised and resubmitted to the student’s Dissertation Advisory Committee.

Admission to Doctoral Candidacy Once the Dissertation Advisory Committee approves the prospectus, a

student may be admitted to doctoral candidacy. All other requirements for the degree except for the dissertation (and the doctoral internship [CPS students only]) must be completed before admission to candidacy is granted.

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PART 6

PREPARING AND DEFENDING THE DISSERTATION

Elements of the Dissertation The dissertation is made up of several elements, including preliminary

pages (e.g., title page, vita, table of contents), the manuscript or manuscripts, a reference list or bibliography, and an appendix or appendixes as necessary. The preliminary pages precede the text of the dissertation. The order and specifications are as follows:

• Acceptance Page • Author’s Statement • Notice to Borrowers • Vita • Abstract • Title Page • Copyright Page or blank page • Acknowledgements • Table of Contents • List of Tables • List of Figures • List of Abbreviations

A more detailed description of each of the preliminary pages is located in Part 7 of this guide, and sample pages are presented in Part 10.

The manuscript or manuscripts must adhere to the specifications described in Part 2 of this guide. The first page of the manuscript is numbered “1” and pagination continues consecutively through to the end of the dissertation, regardless of the number of manuscripts or appendixes included.

A complete list of all the sources used in the manuscript must be included in the dissertation. If the dissertation consists of more than one manuscript, the reference list for each manuscript should appear immediately after that manuscript. Only references that appear within the body of the text should be part of the reference list. Any reference that appears in the abstract must also appear in the text. Spelling and dates must agree between the source mentioned in the body of the dissertation and the reference list.

Dissertation Abstract Adapted, in part, from Publication manual of the American Psychological Association (5th ed.)

The purpose of the dissertation abstract is to provide prospective readers with a summary of the information presented in the accompanying text. The two most important characteristics of an abstract are specificity and conciseness. Other important characteristics of an abstract are that it is readable, that is nonevaluative, that it is representative, and that it is self-contained.

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Specific. In the opening sentence of the abstract, the author should describe the specific problem or situation that was investigated in the study. Without repeating the title of the manuscript, this sentence should contain all the information the reader needs to determine whether the investigation described in the manuscript is of interest to him or her.

In the second sentence, the author should define the scope of investigation described in the manuscript. It should include pertinent information regarding participants, including the number of them. A demographic datum is pertinent if it appears to have an interaction effect on the results of the investigation. If the subject of the investigation was an institution or a process (e.g., a new strategy or technique), then the author should describe that institution or process thoroughly but succinctly. If the information for this sentence is long and complex, the sentence should be divided into two sentences.

In the next sentence, the author should describe the methodology used in the investigation. The names of every instrument used in the investigation should be spelled out, briefly described, and approximately cited. The author’s selected research paradigm should be apparent from his or her description of the methods and analysis.

In the final two or three sentences of the abstract, the author should describe the result of the inquiry and, finally, describe his or her conclusions. An author who used a quantitative methodology should report statistically significant results and include the level of significance. In the conclusions, the author should relate the results to the original problem or situation. Authors should avoid languages such as, ”This study has implications for educator training programs throughout the nation”. Such a statement conveys no useful information; instead, the author should describe those implications if they exist.

Concise. In the abstract, include only the information needed to convey an understanding of the topic of the dissertation. Unless a number appears at the beginning of a sentence, it should not be spelled out, even if it is less than 10. The abstract should be written using active verbs (not passive verbs). Unless the student’s research paradigm suggests otherwise, he or she should not use first person pronouns, as these often deemphasize the contributions of other participants in the research.

Passive: The students were administrated the survey and then were given a debriefing. First person: / administered the survey to the students, and then I debriefed them.

Active/3rd person: The students completed the survey and then participated in a debriefing session.

Readable. Commonly abbreviated words (e.g., “vs.” for versus; “dept.” for department”) may be abbreviated, but all abbreviations that are not common or are proper (e.g., “GRE” for Graduate Record Examination”) must be explained in the text included in the list of abbreviations.

Any unique term used in the text must also be defined. If the word is not used in Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary, then it should be defined, both

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when it appears in the abstract and when it appears in the text of the manuscript. If the author has coined a word to describe a particular aspect of his or her investigation, then he or she needs to define it in the abstract if it appears in the abstract or title.

The purpose of the abstract is to summarize the accompanying manuscript for the reader. It should read like a book jacket blurb; it is not intended to persuade the reader that he or she should read the manuscript. Rather, the intent is to provide the reader with the information that he or she needs to decide for himself or herself. The organization of the abstract should mirror the organization of the dissertation.

Nonevaluative. Authors should not use “successful’ or ‘unsuccessful” to describe any aspect of their investigations. Results will be expected or unexpected, but no published investigation is unsuccessful. Unless the author is the subject of the investigation, the author should not describe his or her emotional state regarding the inquiry’s result in the abstract. The intent of the abstract of the abstract is to describe the investigation, not to persuade the reader that it was a good study.

Representative and self-contained. All of the information in the abstract should also appear in the text of the accompanying manuscript. If reference is made to another’s work in the abstract, a text citation should be made, but the abstract itself does not have a reference list.

When preparing the dissertation abstract, an author should not simply add results and conclusions statements to the prospectus abstract. It may well be the case that the inquiry changed as it was explored, and information from the prospectus abstract may no longer be accurate.

Announcement of the Dissertation Defense At least 10 working days prior to the scheduled presentation of the

dissertation defense, the student must submit two completed review copies of the dissertation (including all the preliminary pages) and the original and 20 copies of the Announcement of Dissertation Defense form to the Office of Academic Assistance and Graduate Admissions. One copy of the dissertation will be made available for faculty review in the Office of Academic Assistance and Graduate Admissions. The second copy will be reviewed by Academic Assistance (or a designee) for adherence to style and format specifications as set forth in this guide and the designated publication manual; thus, it should be complete and all references should be checked before the copies are submitted. The copies of the Announcement of Dissertation Defense will be disseminated to the faculty of the College of Education.

The Announcement of Dissertation Defense includes the date and location of the defense, a list of the student’s Dissertation Advisory Committee members, and an abstract of the dissertation of no more than 350 words in length. Students who are presenting a review and research format dissertation should prepare an abstract that incorporates information from both the literature review manuscript

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and the research article manuscript, and this combined manuscript must be within the 350 word limit.

Defending the Dissertation The dissertation defense is scheduled on the main campus of the

University during any academic term, between the first day of classes and the last day of final examinations, excluding holidays and term breaks. The defense cannot be scheduled during a time when the university is not in session. At the defense, the student presents his or her dissertation inquiry to demonstrate that it has met the requirements described in Part 1 of this guide. Students are encouraged to attend other students’ dissertation defenses prior to participating in their own.

The defense must be attended by no fewer than four members of the Dissertation Advisory Committee, and it is open to all College of Education faculty and invited guests. The committee will invite other faculty and guests present to question the candidate and communicate to the committee their professional reactions.

Approval and acceptance of the dissertation requires a favorable vote of the majority of the Dissertation Advisory Committee, but the majority must include no fewer than four members regardless of the size of the committee. Should revisions to the dissertation be necessary, the student is required to make those changes in a timely manner and submit them to the Dissertation Advisory Committee for approval.

Degree Completion The doctoral degree is completed once the dissertation is in final form and

has been approved by the student’s committee and the chair of the student’s department. The final electronic (.pdf) copy of the dissertation on cd Rom, additional copies, and all forms must then be submitted to the Office of Academic Assistance in the College of Education. The dissertation must also have been successfully uploaded to the Georgia State University Library ETD site, and all subsequent paperwork (Survey of Earned Doctorates; ProQuest Publication agreement) and associated payments must be completed by the date of Commencement. Materials must be submitted by a specific deadline during the term in which the student intends to graduate or the student will not be approved for graduation during the term. Submission deadlines for each term are available at http://education.gsu.edu/OAA/

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PART 7

PREPARING THE FINAL DOCUMENT

A College of Education dissertation consists of two sections: the preliminary pages and the dissertation text. A dissertation may also include an appendix or appendixes following the dissertation text.

Listed below are the contents of each section, showing what pages should be included in the preliminary pages and the order they should appear. This part of the Guide describes the formatting requirements for each of these pages. See Part 10 of the Guide for sample preliminary pages.

Preliminary Pages

Acceptance Page

Author’s Statement

Notice to Borrowers

Curriculum Vitae (abbreviated to 2 pages)

Abstract

Title Page

Copyright Page (or blank page)

Acknowledgments

Table of Contents

List of Tables (if any)

List of Figures (if any)

Abbreviations

Dissertation Text

Main Text

References

(If you are using the review and research format, then you will have two references lists. Each should appear immediately following its associated manuscript.)

Appendix(es)

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Preliminary Pages

Each dissertation must include preliminary pages as described in this section. Samples of the preliminary pages are provided in Part 10 of this guide; the descriptions below refer to those sample pages.

Acceptance Page

The Acceptance Page is required in the dissertation but not in the prospectus. All text must fit on the front of a single page.

Top Margin: 1” Bottom Margin: 1” Left Margin: 1.5” Right Margin: 1” (Text should be left justified only.) Pagination: No page number.

The title of the dissertation and the author’s name are written in all capital letters. Do not capitalize “by” between the title and the author’s name. The Dissertation Advisory Committee must sign the acceptance page of the dissertation in blue ink, and the committee chair (major advisor) should indicate the date of acceptance. All names must be spelled correctly, and the student is responsible for obtaining the appropriate degree information (e.g., Ph.D., Ed.D.) for each member of the committee.

The student is responsible for obtaining the signature of the Department Chair; the signature must be in blue ink. The names and terminal degrees of the college’s departments and their chairs (as of February 2012) are

Brian Dew, Ph.D. Chair, Counseling and Psychological Services

Barbara Meyers, Ph.D. Chair, Early Childhood Education

William L. Curlette, Ph.D. Chair, Educational Policy Studies

Amy R. Lederberg, Ph.D. Interim Chair, Educational Psychology and Special Education

Jacalyn Lund, Ph.D. Chair, Kinesiology and Health

Dana L. Fox, Ph.D. Chair, Middle-Secondary Education and Instructional Technology

The Office of Academic Assistance and Graduate Admissions will obtain the signature of the Dean, who should be listed as follows:

Paul A. Alberto, Ph.D. Interim Dean College of Education



The Author’s Statement is required in the dissertation but not in the prospectus.


Notice to Borrowers

The Notice to Borrowers is required in the dissertation but not in the prospectus.


Curriculum Vitae

The Curriculum Vitae is required in the dissertation but not in the prospectus.

Length: No more than two pages Top Margin: 1” Bottom Margin: 1” Left Margin: 1.5” Right Margin: 1” (Text should be left justified only.) Pagination: No page number.

The purpose of including an abbreviated curriculum vitae is to provide evidence of the author’s credibility as a researcher and educational practitioner and to present some information on the author’s positionality as an expert in the topic area. Use the following guidelines to prepare the text of your curriculum vitae:

Address. Use the same address you used on the Notice to Borrowers page.

Education. List all degrees earned in reverse chronological order, beginning with the Ph.D. you will receive upon completion of your dissertation defense (and any other requirements). List the institution which granted the degree along with your major. Do not list other information(e.g., “cum laude” or your grade-point average) on your abbreviated curriculum vitae. Do not list institutions where you completed course work but did not earn a degree or certificate.

Professional Experience. List recent full-time employment positions covering the past 10 years or the past 3 positions, whichever is longer. Part-time employment related to establishing credibility may also be included. Include the name of your employer, its location, and your current or last title held with the employer.


Presentations and Publications. List recent presentations and publications using A.P.A. or Turabian style; however, list these presentations in reverse chronological order rather than alphabetical order so that the most recent is at the top of the list. You do not have to identify which entries are publications and which entries are presentations as the format of the item will indicate its type.

Professional Societies and Organizations. List on-going and past memberships in professional societies and organizations, particularly those related to your topic area.

Abstract

The Abstract is required in both the dissertation and the prospectus. Text (not including the title and author’s name) is limited to no more than 350 words and must be double-spaced. If you are using the review and research dissertation format, you must create a single abstract that summaries both of your manuscripts.

Length: No more than two pages Top Margin: 1” Bottom Margin: 1” Left Margin: 1.5” Right Margin: 1” (Text should be left justified only.) Pagination: No page number.

Title Page

The Title Page is required in both the dissertation and the prospectus. For your prospectus, replace “A Dissertation” with “A Prospectus” and use the year in which your prospectus presentation is made in place of the year the Ph.D. degree is to be conferred.

Your title should be in reverse pyramid format if it stretches over more than one line of text. In reverse pyramid format, the first line is longer than the second line; the second line is longer than the third line, if there is a third line; and the third line is longer than the fourth line, if there is a fourth line. A title that requires five lines is probably too wordy.

Top Margin: 1” Bottom Margin: 1” (Date should appear as low on the page as possible.) Left Margin: 1.5” Right Margin: 1” (Text should be left justified only.) Pagination: No page number.


Copyright Page

Required only in the dissertation. Because the dissertation will be immediately accessible to researchers and readers on the internet, you demonstrate your ownership of the manuscript by identifying your copyright. The copyright notice provides legal evidence of authorship. By using this notice, you establish a common law copyright, which identifies you as the owner of the rights to this document.

However, some authors, especially if they are looking toward book or other media publication in the future, prefer to register their copyright with the Library of Congress. You may obtain forms and registration instructions at http://www.copyright.gov/ The fee is $35 if you file electronically and $50 if you submit a printed filing. If you prefer to have the registration handled at the time of your submission to the federal archives by the ProQuest agency, the fee is $65.

In any case, every dissertation must have the standard notice immediately after the title page. The Copyright Page indicates the author’s legal name as owner of the copyright and the year in which the manuscript is being published.

Top Margin: 1” Bottom Margin: 1” (Date should appear as low on the page as possible.) Left Margin: 1.5” Right Margin: 1” Pagination: No page number. This is the first counted page, but no number appears on

the page. Pagination appears (using lowercase Roman numerals) on the following page.

Acknowledgments

An Acknowledgments page is optional in the dissertation, and it does not appear in the prospectus. If it is included in the dissertation, it is numbered at the center of the bottom of the page using a lowercase Roman numeral (ii). The Acknowledgments page should be single-spaced, and it should fit cleanly on the front of a single page.

Length: One page Top Margin: 1” Bottom Margin: 1” Left Margin: 1.5” Right Margin: 1” (Text should be left justified only.) Pagination: Lowercase Roman numeral. This is page number ii.


Table of Contents

The Table of Contents is required in the prospectus and in the dissertation. It generally consists of 2-3 pages, although it may consist of fewer. All pages in the Table of Contents are numbered at the center of the bottom of the page using lowercase Roman numerals. If the author has included an Acknowledgments page, then the numbering of the Table of Contents begins with iii; otherwise, it begins with ii.

The Table of Contents may be single-spaced; however, there should be a blank line before each chapter heading, between the listing of preliminary pages and the “Chapter”heading, and before “References.” Chapter titles should be listed in all-capital letters, just as they are in the body of the dissertation. Within each chapter, list the Level 1 headings in the Table of Contents. You do not have to list Level 2 or lower level headings in the Table of Contents.

Do not list the names of individual appendixes in the Table of Contents.

Length: Varies Top Margin: 1” Bottom Margin: 1” Left Margin: 1.5” Right Margin: 1” (Page numbers should align smoothly at right margin.) Pagination: Lowercase Roman numeral. This is page number ii or iii (see above).

Two sample Table of Contents are presented in Part 10. The first uses the traditional format, and the second uses the review and research format. The samples are provided to show how the pages should be formatted; the content of the pages will match how you, the student, have arranged the dissertation itself. A traditional format dissertation may have more than five chapters.

Page numbers within the Table of Contents must align precisely along the right margin of the page. In Microsoft Word, you can use the Tabs feature (in the Paragraph menu) to set a right tab at 6” and indicate that it should have a period (…….) leader so that the numbers align correctly. Do not attempt to create this effect by using the Table feature. Contact the Office of Academic Assistance and Graduate Admissions Doctoral Adviser if you have questions about how to align your page numbers.

List of Tables

You do not need a list of tables in your prospectus. If the dissertation contains any tables, a List of Tables page is required. It is numbered using lower Roman case numerals at the bottom center of the page. Page numbers follows sequentially from the last page of the Table of Contents. The List of Tables should be double-spaced between table headings; individual table headings may be single-spaced (if they go over more than one line). The List of Tables should have the same presentation and style as the Table of Contents.

Length: Varies Top Margin: 1” Bottom Margin: 1”


Left Margin: 1.5” Right Margin: 1” (Page numbers should align smoothly at right margin.) Pagination: Lowercase Roman numeral

List of Figures

You do not need a list of figures in your prospectus. If the dissertation contains any figures, a List of Figures page is required. It is numbered using lower Roman case numerals at the bottom center of the page. Page numbers follows sequentially from the last page of the List of Tables. The List of Figures should be double-spaced between figure titles; individual figure titles may be single-spaced (if they go over more than one line). The List of Figures should have the same presentation and style as the Table of Contents.

Length: Varies Top Margin: 1” Bottom Margin: 1” Left Margin: 1.5” Right Margin: 1” (Page numbers should align smoothly at right margin.) Pagination: Lowercase Roman numeral

Abbreviations

If abbreviations are used extensively in the text of the prospectus or dissertation, then an Abbreviations page is required. An abbreviation appears extensively if it appears in more than one chapter of your dissertation or if it appears on more than three pages. The Abbreviations page appears after the List of Figures, and it is numbered at the center of the bottom of the page with lowercase Roman numerals. Page numbering follows sequentially from the last page of the List of Figures.

Excessive use of Abbreviations can confuse the reader. Use your discretion to keep from impeding understanding of your text. Items appearing on the Abbreviations page should be listed alphabetically by abbreviation. The list of items should be double-spaced, although individual items may be single-spaced. Do not include common abbreviations on the Abbreviations page. Common abbreviations include Latin abbreviations used in parenthetical expressions, “vs.”, “ANOVA,” and “U.S.”

Length: Varies (usually less than 1 page) Top Margin: 1” Bottom Margin: 1” Left Margin: 1.5” Right Margin: 1” (Text should be left justified only.) Pagination: Lowercase Roman numeral


Main Body

The text of a traditional format dissertation should be divided into titled chapters. (See Part 10 for a sample Table of Contents.) All textual specifications not mentioned in this guide can be found in the publication manuals reviewed earlier in this Guide. Chapters run continuously: They are not separated by blank or title sheets.

A review and research dissertation should be divided into two titled chapters. The first chapter is the review article manuscript, and the title of the chapter is the title of the manuscript. The second chapter is the research article manuscript, and the title of the chapter is the title of the manuscript.

Pagination of the main body begins with page 1, using Arabic numerals, and continues consecutively though to the end of the dissertation (including the appendixes). The page number appears in the upper right corner of each page.

Length: Varies Top Margin: 1” Bottom Margin: 1” Left Margin: 1.5” Right Margin: 1” (Text should be left justified only.) Pagination: Arabic numerals. Appears in upper-right corner.

References

All references cited in the text must be included in the references list or the bibliography. All references appearing in the references list must appear in the text. A review and research format dissertation will have two references lists, one for each manuscript.


Appendixes

Materials such as charts and other addenda that are not necessary to the text can be grouped as an appendix or appendixes. If an appendix appears, it should follow the last page of the references list or bibliography in a traditional format dissertation and the last page of the references list for the research manuscript in a review and research format dissertation (even if appendix items are related to the review manuscript.)

If you have more than one appendix, the first appendix should be labled “APPENDIX A.” Each appendix should have a short title identifying the contents of the appendix. If you have more than one appendix, start each appendix at the top of a new page. Examples of items that might appear in the appendix are interview protocols, data collection sheets, informed consent documents, and letters of permission to reprint copyrighted materials.


PART 8

FORMATTING OF THE TEXT

Use Arabic numerals beginning with number “1” on the first page of the text and continue on every page throughout the manuscript, including any appendix pages. Each page, beginning with the first, should be numbered in the upper right-hand corner. All pages are numbered in portrait orientation, even if the text on the page is in landscape orientation (as might be the case for a wide table).

The text itself should be in a standard font (e.g., Courier, Helvetica, Times Roman) and be 12 points in size. Text printed on a dot-matrix printer, hand-written, or produced using a nonstandard typeface is acceptable in the appendixes of the final manuscript but is not acceptable elsewhere in the final copy of the dissertation.

The final document must be produced on a letter-quality printer. The type must be clean and legible. The type size for specialized symbols is too small if a photocopy of the symbol becomes unreadable. If there is any question about the print quality, submit an example for approval to the Office of Academic Assistance and Graduate Admissions. Visible (e.g., hand-written) corrections to the text are not acceptable.

Do not underline text. Use italics and boldface type for emphasis as appropriate according to the particular style manual you are using.

Margins

The text should completely fill a 6-inch by 9-inch area on each page with the following exception: Tables and figures may be smaller (but not larger) than the 6-inch by 9-inch area. This area is bound by the standard margins of the dissertation: 1 inch at top, right, and bottom, and 1.5 inches at left.

Maintain correct margins when preparing the dissertation. The left margin of each page must be 1.5 inches wide to allow for binding whenever the text might be printed out from the .pdf file. All other margins must be 1 inch wide.

A heading or subheading in the text should not begin on a separate page unless the text preceding the subheading has filled the page; however, if a subheading appears at the bottom of a page, it should be moved to the next page to be with its accompanying text. (In MS Word, use Paragraph, Line and Page Breaks, Keep with Next to anchor a heading to its following text.) Each chapter begins on a new page.

Words may not be divided with a hyphen at the bottom of a page and carried over to the top of the next page.

Sentences ending a paragraph may not end as a partial line on the top of the next page. The first line of a paragraph may not appear as the last line


on a page with the remainder of the paragraph on the following page. Most word processing software will allow you to format your document to avoid these situations. Typically, the separated lines are called “widows” and “orphans.”

Margins must be accurate and consistent on all pages, including the reference list, appendixes, and pages containing tables and figures, on all copies. Your page numbers should be 0.5 inch from the edge of the page, so they are the only allowable violation of the margin rules.

All text should be left-justified only. Text should not be justified along the right margin. Do not fully justify your text.

Use proper A.P.A. or Turabian seriation format (or the format appropriate to the style guide you are using if it is different). Avoid the use of bulleted lists.

Page Numbering

The title page is the first page of the dissertation to be counted, but it is not numbered. The next page, either a blank page or copyright page, is neither numbered nor counted. The next page, usually the acknowledgments, is both counted (ii) and numbered at the bottom center of the page. All preliminary pages that follow (Table of Contents, etc.) are counted and numbered consecutively at the bottom of the page with lowercase Roman numerals.

Number the body of the text with Arabic numerals. As indicated above, the first page of CHAPTER 1 is numbered “1” and subsequent pages of the text are numbered consecutively from that starting point. The page numbers in the body of the text are placed in the upper right-hand corner of page between the top margin and the top edge of the page.

If you are using the review and research dissertation format, your second (research) manuscript does not begin on page 1 but rather continues the numbering from the previous (review) manuscript.

Scripted page numbers (e.g., 15a, 25(3), 35-c) are not acceptable. All page numbers should be oriented to read vertically as that page number on this page. The top of the text on landscape-oriented pages should be toward the binding (left margin), but the page number must be oriented to read vertically (upper right margin).

Chapter Headings and Subheadings Chapter titles must be in all capital letters, centered, and double-spaced. If you

are using the review and research dissertation format, the chapter titles will also be the titles of the two manuscripts that make up your dissertation. They should be in inverted pyramid format.

Subheadings are always typed in upper and lower case and should be consistent in position and style throughout the dissertation. Only level 1 headings should be listed in the Table of Contents of the dissertation. Consult the Publication Manual of the


American Psychological Association (6th ed.) or A Manual for Writiers of Term Papers, Theses, and Dissertations (Turabian) for instructions on appropriate use and format of headings and subheadings. Students producing a review and research dissertation should use headings and subheadings as appropriate to the target journal or journals.

Line Spacing

Double-space all text in the body. Tables and figure captions may be single-spaced.

Quotations greater than three lines must be blocked, indented, and single-spaced. Indent block quotations 2.0 inches from the left edge of the page and 1.5 inches from the right edge of the page (which is 0.5 inch on each side from the standard page margins). Block quotations should not be fully justified; only the left margin should be justified.

Character Spacing

The A.P.A. publication manual stipulates that only one character space should follow each period in the text. This includes the space between initials in the author’s name. In your dissertation, you may put two spaces after a period that ends a sentence so long as you do so consistently throughout your dissertation. Do not include additional spaces in abbreviations (e.g., “U.K.”).

Tables and Figures

A table is a presentation of data or statistics that helps the reader compare outcomes on independent variables or related to different characteristics. Other than in its headings, a table presents numbers or words (or, rarely, both). Each table is numbered consecutively as it appears in your text, and each table has a distinct title.

A figure is an illustration, such as a statistical model, that visually presents some aspect of your study. A figure could contain a map showing the area where the various data collection sites were located, an organizational chart of the organization involved in your study, a photograph of student work that you used as a datum, or histogram or box plot produced in your analysis. Each figure is numbered consecutively as it appears in your text, and each figure has a distinct title, which will be the first part of its caption.

A table or figure should appear at the top of the text on the page following its first reference in the text. If the table or figure is small, it may appear on the same page as its first reference in the text at the bottom of the page.

If the table or figure does not fill more than 75% of the page, then the text should continue below the table. There should be at least 1 inch between the bottom of the caption and the top of the continuing text.

Text should run continuously around the placement of tables. Avoid leaving blank spaces of more than 1 inch in the text.

Do not use journal publication instructions such as “Insert Table 1 about here.”

If a table or figure is presented so that the top of the table is to the long edge of the page (i.e., landscape), the page number on the page must still be in the upper right


hand corner of the page as if the short edge of the paper were still at the top (i.e., portrait). One way to accomplish this is to convert the table to an image file, import it into your document, and then rotate it into position.

Figures should be clean and easily reproduced. If you are not generating figures electronically, consider hiring a graphic artist to ensure that illustrations are neat and precise.

For instructions concerning the use of any other unusual materials in your dissertation, consult with the OAAGA Doctoral Advisor.

Proofreading and Editing

A proofreader should read the dissertation before it is submitted to the Dissertation Advisory Committee or to the Office of Academic Assistance and Graduate Admissions for review. This proofreader could be one of your dissertation committee members, a fellow student, a family member, a paid consultant—anyone other than yourself.

Pagination should be checked on all documents submitted.

The wording of the Table of Contents, List of Tables, and List of Figures must be consistent with the headings, table titles, and figure titles, respectively, in the text.

Page numbers in the Table of Contents must agree with those in the text.

All references in the text should agree in spelling and date with those listed in the references list.

All references cited in the text must appear in the references list and vice versa.


PART 9

SUBMITTING THE DIGITAL DOCUMENT

Review of Dissertation Format

The Office of Academic Assistance and Graduate Admissions will review your dissertation to verify that it meets formatting standards and library specifications. You must submit two printed copies of your completed dissertation to the OAAGA Doctoral Advisor for this review.

Submitting the Portable Document Format Version

Once your dissertation has been successfully deleted and any corrections have been made, you must submit one complete, formatted copy in PDF format to the Pullen Library’s ETD site by the appropriate deadline date as listed on the academic calendar for the academic term of graduation (http://education.gsu.edu/OAA). You will receive instructions on uploading the final dissertation to the ETD site from the OAAG Doctoral Advisor.

Once the PDF copy has been reviewed, you will receive an email message indicating if additional changes are necessary and explaining the acceptance status. If the upload is approved, you will then prepare a CD-ROM copy of the final version and deliver that to the Office of Academic Assistance and Graduate Admissions with other check-out paperwork. Once the ETD is cleared (usually after Commencement), it will be accessible through the Pullen Library’s electronic catalog.

Theses and dissertations are not transferred electronically to the library catalog until after Commencement for the academic term in which you graduate, although the status of the document will be sent to you by email. No changes will be permitted once notification of acceptance is provided, and all printed copies must conform exactly in page numbering and content with the archived file.

Fees

Although no binding fees are charged for the electronic dissertation, the candidate for graduation must pay the $25 archiving/dissertation abstracts fee along with any associated copyright fees ($55 if ProQuest is used).

Microfilming

Dissertations. ProQuest must microfilm all doctoral dissertations and provide international search capabilities on their website. The Office of Academic Assistance and Graduate Admissions will handle the transaction, with the fee paid by the students.

Doctoral students must complete the Doctoral Dissertation Agreement Form (found in the publication, Publishing Your Dissertation, provided by the OAAGA Doctoral Advisor). A printed copy of the abstract and title page from the dissertation must be attached to this form.


Theses. Microfilming services are available to all master’s degree candidates through ProQuest but are not required. Master’s degree candidates who wish to microfilm their thesis should observe the same guidelines outlined above and should complete the appropriate forms. The current fee is $45.00.

Copyright Services

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PART 10

SAMPLE PRELIMINARY PAGES

Sample preliminary pages and samples of some additional pages of the dissertation are presented in this section.

Acceptance Page


Notice to Borrowers

Curriculum Vitae

Abstract

Title Page

Copyright Page (or blank page)

Acknowledgments

Table of Contents (2 versions are presented)

List of Tables (if any)

List of Figures (if any)

Abbreviations

First page of Chapter 1

First page of References (traditional format)

First page of Appendixes

ACCEPTANCE

This dissertation, HIGH SCHOOL PHYSICAL EDUCATION TEACHERS’ EVALUATIONS OF STUDENTS’ HEALTH RISK DURING RIGOROUS PHYSICAL ACTIVITY, by ANGELO DAMIEN ENGLEWOOD, was prepared under the direction of the candidate’s Dissertation Advisory Committee. It is accepted by the committee members in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree, Doctor of Philosophy, in the College of Education, Georgia State University.

The Dissertation Advisory Committee and the student’s Department Chairperson, as representatives of the faculty, certify that this dissertation has met all standards of excellence and scholarship as determined by the faculty. The Dean of the College of Education concurs.

Regan MacNeil, Ph.D. Committee Chair

Miles J. Bennell, Ph.D. Committee Member

Rosemary Woodhouse, Ph.D. Committee Member

George Lutz, Ed.D. Committee Member

Helen Grosvenor, Ed.D. Committee Member

Date

Jacalyn Lund, Ph.D. Chairperson, Department of Kinesiology and Health

Paul A. Alberto, Ph.D. Interim Dean College of Education

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AUTHOR’S STATEMENT

By presenting this dissertation as a partial fulfillment of the requirements for the

advanced degree from Georgia State University, I agree that the library of Georgia State

University shall make it available for inspection and circulation in accordance with its

regulations governing materials of this type. I agree that permission to quote, to copy

from, or to publish this dissertation may be granted by the professor under whose

direction it was written, by the College of Education’s Director of Graduate Studies, or

by me. Such quoting, copying, or publishing must be solely for scholarly purposes and

will not involve potential financial gain. It is understood that any copying from or

publication of this dissertation which involves potential financial gain will not be allowed

without my written permission.

Janice Reynolds McEwen

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NOTICE TO BORROWERS

All dissertations deposited in the Georgia State University library must be used in

accordance with the stipulations prescribed by the author in the preceding statement. The

author of this dissertation is

Jeremiah Whale Paderewski

3202 North Peachtree Way

Riverdale, GA 30274

The director of this dissertation is

Dr. Robert Crawley Grantham

Department of Middle-Secondary Education and Instructional Technology

College of Education

Georgia State University

Atlanta, GA 30303

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CURRICULUM VITAE

Leslie Monroe Chong

ADDRESS: 5601 Greenwhistle Drive

Gainesville, GA 30506

EDUCATION:

Ph.D. 2013 Georgia State University

Teaching and Learning

M.S. 2002 Georgia State University

Social Studies Education

B.A. 1999 Duke University

Sociology

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

2008-present Assistant Principal

Price Middle School, DeKalb County School System,

GA

2005-2008 Lead Social Studies Teacher

Price Middle School, DeKalb County School System,

GA

2002-2005 Social Studies Teacher

Wilde Creek Middle School Academy, Cobb County

School System, GA

PRESENTATIONS AND PUBLICATIONS

Chong, L. M., & Richardson, L. F. (2012, April). Implementing the International

Baccalaureate in “conservative” school districts: Lessons learned from the

community. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Education

Research Association, Vancouver, Canada.

Atwill, J.-P., Chong, L. M., & Banks-Li, Y. N. (2011). The International Baccalaureate

and U.S. “core culture”: A gray battlefield. Journal of Global Educational Policy,

14(2), 212-230.

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES AND ORGANIZATIONS

2010-present American Education Research Association

2008-present National Association of Elementary School Principals

2002-2010 National Council for the Social Studies

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Include as many publications/presentations and societies/organizations as appropriate; however, your c.v. cannot be more than two pages long.

Enter your correct degree designation and major. (Do not highlight them.)

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ABSTRACT

SURRENDER OF SOVEREIGNTY: THE INFLUENCE OF INTERNATIONAL

TESTING PROTOCOLS ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE

COMMON CORE KNOWLEDGE PROGRAM IN

THE UNITED STATES

by

Anphia Teresa Li

Your abstract should be double-spaced and be indented as a paragraph. If you are

using the review-and-research format, you must create a single abstract that summarizes

both article manuscripts. (This abstract is for your dissertation, not for your individual

manuscripts.)

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INTEGRATING DIVERSITY INTO THE CURRICULUM AT

URBAN UNIVERSITIES IN THE SOUTHWESTERN

UNITED STATES

by

Monroe Lyrell Johnston

A Dissertation

Presented in Partial Fulfillment of Requirements for the

Degree of

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the Department of Educational Policy Studies

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the College of Education

Georgia State University

Atlanta, GA

2012

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Replace with “A Prospectus” for your prospectus/proposal or with “A Thesis” if you are earning a master’s degree.

Replace with “Master of Education” or “Master of Science” or “Master of Arts in Teaching,” as appropriate, if you are earning a master’s degree

Use year of graduation. Year should be flush with bottom margin.

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All manuscripts should indicate copyright

Copyright by Carlos T. Johnston

2005

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Type your acknowledgments here in single-spaced, paragraph format. Use the

same font you use for the body of your dissertation. Notice that the letter “E” appears

only twice in the word “ACKNOWLEDGMENT.”

Students typically acknowledge the support of their committee members, their

friends and family, and/or other significant individuals in their lives; however, there are

no specific requirements for what you should include in your acknowledgments, and this

page is optional.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

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List of Tables ..................................................................................................................... iv

List of Figures ......................................................................................................................v

Abbreviations ..................................................................................................................... vi

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1 THE PROBLEM ......................................................................................................1

Research Questions ..................................................................................................4

Purpose .....................................................................................................................8

Significance of the Study .......................................................................................10

Assumptions and Limitations ................................................................................15

Overview of the Study ...........................................................................................17

2 REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE .......................................................................20

3 METHODOLOGY ................................................................................................61

Conceptual Framework ..........................................................................................63

Participants .............................................................................................................70

Instruments .............................................................................................................75

Procedures ..............................................................................................................81

Expectations ...........................................................................................................88

4 RESULTS ..............................................................................................................92

5 DISCUSSION ......................................................................................................120

Conclusions ..........................................................................................................121

Implications..........................................................................................................142

Suggestions for Further Research ........................................................................158

References ........................................................................................................................170

Appendixes ......................................................................................................................193

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List of Tables ..................................................................................................................... iv

List of Figures ......................................................................................................................v

Abbreviations ..................................................................................................................... vi

Chapter

1 TITLE OF LITERATURE REVIEW MANUSCRIPT ...........................................1

Guiding Questions ...................................................................................................4

Review .....................................................................................................................8

References ..............................................................................................................48

2 TITLE OF RESEARCH MANUSCRIPT ..............................................................56

Methodology ..........................................................................................................60

Results ....................................................................................................................73

Conclusions ............................................................................................................89

Implications for Future Research .........................................................................102

References ............................................................................................................108

Appendixes ......................................................................................................................193

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LIST OF TABLES

Table Page

1 Demographic Characteristics of Participants .........................................................69

2 Enrollment Data from School District A by Gender and Race/Ethnicity ..............71

3 Enrollment Data from School District B by Gender and Race/Ethnicity ..............72

4 Enrollment Data from School District C by Gender and Race/Ethnicity ..............73

5 End-of-Course Test Results for Student-Participants (School Districts

A and C Only) ........................................................................................................85

6 End-of-Course Test Results for School District B (Participating

Schools Only).........................................................................................................89

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1 Change in Student Population in School District A 1965-2005 ............................94

2 Change in Student Population in School District B 1965-2005 ............................97

3 Change in Student Population in School District C 1973-2005 ..........................101

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ABBREVIATIONS

BoR Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia

DoE U.S. Department of Education

GADoE Georgia Department of Education

GPS Georgia Performance Standards

GRE Graduate Record Examination

HSGT High School Graduation Test

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THE PROBLEM

Each chapter begins with “CHAPTER” and an Arabic numeral indicating which

chapter it is. Do not enumerate your chapters with Roman numerals (e.g., CHAPTER I)

or with numerals written as words (e.g., “CHAPTER ONE”). Underneath the chapter

identifier will be the title of the chapter in all capital letters. You should not have a

heading between your chapter title and the beginning of that chapter’s text.

In a review and research format dissertation, your chapter title may be longer than

the width of the page. In such a case, your title should be single spaced, with a blank line

between the last line of the title and the beginning of the text.

The first paragraph or paragraphs of each chapter should provide an introduction

to what will be presented in the chapter regardless of which format you are using.

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References

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entire dissertation. Do not use all-capital letters for the “References” title.

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Paragraph menu on the “Indents and Spacing” tab, click on the “Special:” menu

and select “Hanging.” Once Hanging is selected, enter 0.5” in the “By” menu. (It

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APPENDIXES

APPENDIX A

TITLE OF APPENDIX IN ALL-CAPITAL LETTERS

“APPENDIXES” and “APPENDIX A” (and identifiers for subsequent

appendixes) should be in all-capital letters. If you have only one appendix, you can use

“APPENDIX” as the section identifier instead of “APPENDIXES” and “APPENDIX A.”

Each appendix begins on a new page. You may single-space text in an appendix.

If any of your appendix pages present information in landscape orientation, the

identifier, title, and page numbers must still appear on the page as if it were in portrait

orientation.

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