Dissertation
Theorizing envisioned credentials: anticipatory socialization to graduate education
University of Iowa
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), University of Iowa
Spring 2023
DOI: 10.25820/etd.007004
Abstract
This dissertation examined the anticipation of graduate education from three distinct lenses. The first two articles drew from a multi-institutional dataset of students at U.S. research universities to consider the socialization factors that predict different forms of graduate credential expectation, while the third article expanded theory on graduate school anticipatory socialization. The first article provided an examination of how LGBTQI students anticipate obtaining an array of postbaccalaureate credentials. It addressed the expectations for graduate school and predictors of graduate school expectations for disaggregated groups within the LGBTQI community. The second article conducted analyses predicting expectations for obtaining a law degree. That study also explored variation by undergraduate year, indicating differences between class-year cohorts related to pursuing graduate degrees and law degrees. The third article considered the interplay between self-authorship theory and socialization theory to inform future theorizing about the pursuit of graduate school; it recommended that self-authorship capacity be considered alongside other ‘input’ factors when seeking to understand the entry characteristics of prospective and new graduate students.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Theorizing envisioned credentials: anticipatory socialization to graduate education
- Creators
- Nicholas R. Stroup
- Contributors
- Nicholas A Bowman (Advisor)Jodi L Linley (Advisor)Brian P An (Committee Member)Cassie L Barnhardt (Committee Member)
- Resource Type
- Dissertation
- Degree Awarded
- Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), University of Iowa
- Degree in
- Educational Policy and Leadership Studies
- Date degree season
- Spring 2023
- DOI
- 10.25820/etd.007004
- Publisher
- University of Iowa
- Number of pages
- xiv, 148 pages
- Copyright
- Copyright 2023 Nicholas R. Stroup
- Language
- English
- Date submitted
- 04/25/2023
- Date approved
- 06/30/2023
- Description illustrations
- tables, graphs
- Description bibliographic
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Public Abstract (ETD)
- This dissertation examined the anticipation of graduate education from three distinct lenses. The first two articles drew from a multi-institutional dataset of students at U.S. research universities to consider the socialization factors that predict different forms of graduate credential expectation, while the third article expanded theory on graduate school anticipatory socialization. The first article provided an examination of how LGBTQI students anticipate obtaining an array of postbaccalaureate credentials. It addressed the expectations for graduate school and predictors of graduate school expectations for disaggregated groups within the LGBTQI community. The second article conducted analyses predicting expectations for obtaining a law degree. That study also explored variation by undergraduate year, indicating differences between class-year cohorts related to pursuing graduate degrees and law degrees. The third article considered the interplay between self-authorship theory and socialization theory to inform future theorizing about the pursuit of graduate school; it recommended that self-authorship capacity be considered alongside other ‘input’ factors when seeking to understand the entry characteristics of prospective and new graduate students.
- Academic Unit
- Educational Policy and Leadership Studies
- Record Identifier
- 9984424789802771
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