navigating graduate school
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Navigating Graduate School, guides graduate students through the graduate school process, with tips on how to incorporate coursework and comprehensive exams into prepping for your dissertation.TRANSCRIPT
Navigating Graduate
SchoolDr. James LaniStatistics Solutions
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Today’s Webinar
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Agenda• Applying the 7 Habits for Highly Effective
Students• Private Victory• Public Victory• The Law of the Farm
• Coursework• Q&A
• Comprehensive Exams• Q&A
• Dissertation• Member Resources• Statistics Solutions Pro• One-on-one Consulting• Q&A
• Sharpen the Saw
Applying the 7 Habits For Highly Effective
Students
Private Victory: Habits 1-3
Public Victory: Habits 4-6
The Golden Goose: Habit 7
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I. Be responsible—you got yourself into to this, you’ll have to get yourself out.
II. Have the end in mind—maintain the vision of what the completion looks like.
III. 1st things 1st—keep your priorities straight and make lists
Private Victory
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IV. Win-Win: you want out, and your professor and school have standards too.
V. Seek to Understand Before being Understood: calmly addressing committee/URR feedback
V. Synergize: see comments as helping you strengthen document
Public Victory
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The Law of the Farm
“Can you imagine "cramming" on the farm? Can you imagine forgetting to plant in the spring, flaking out all summer, and hitting it hard in the fall--ripping the soil up, throwing in the seeds, watering, cultivating--and expecting to get a bountiful harvest overnight?”
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Its OK to have tough teachers: tough on the problem and easy on you.
Top research articles: Allow time to read, reread, and absorb the articles
Plan for your comprehensive exams
Coursework
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Coursework
Questions&
Answers
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Stay organized
Talk to other students
Think about your dissertation
Stay relaxed
Remember, others have survived
Comprehensive Exams
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Comprehensive Exams
Questions&
Answers
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Methodology—3rd things 1st
Get a great chairperson (facebook to speak with other)
Get others’ URR/IRB as samples
Allow time for edits
Manage frustration
Use Statistics Solutions membership, SS Pro, and 1-1 consulting
Dissertation
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Dissertation
Questions&
Answers
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Tools and Consulting fromStatistics Solutions
Statistics Solutions ProValidating Your Results Chapter
1-1 Dissertation ConsultingTo schedule a consultation call 877-437-8622 or email [email protected]
Membership Resources
• Dissertation Template• Goal Visualization Timeline• Choosing your statistical analyses• Sample size/Power analysis generator• Data analysis plan templates• Statistical Analysis: A Manual on Dissertation Statistics in
SPSS• Video Tutorials
Goal Visualization Timeline
Choosing Your Statistical Analysis
Results Chapter
Video Tutorials SPSS Manual
www.StatisticsSolutionsPro.com• Easy—no software to learn or nuances of the
analyses’ assumptions to examine• Convenient—no download necessary• Drafting your results in 3 seconds!
Statistics Solutions ProDrafting Your Results Chapter
1-1 Dissertation Consulting
Free 30 minute consultation with me!
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VII. Sharpen the Saw
And the return to the goose and the golden egg
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Research MethodsWednesday, October 23, 2013
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