{"id":12957,"date":"2021-07-05T12:38:53","date_gmt":"2021-07-05T12:38:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dimensions.ai\/?post_type=resource&p=12957"},"modified":"2022-06-23T09:56:20","modified_gmt":"2022-06-23T09:56:20","slug":"texas-am-university-uses-dimensions-to-evaluate-postgraduate-success-of-phd-students","status":"publish","type":"resource","link":"https:\/\/www.dimensions.ai\/resources\/texas-am-university-uses-dimensions-to-evaluate-postgraduate-success-of-phd-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas A&M University Uses Dimensions To Evaluate Postgraduate Success of PhD Students"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\u201cBuilding a successful program is challenging – especially as the field of research and employment changes. Dimensions provides a perfect blend of insights that can be leveraged to develop the perfect course.\u201d<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Bruce Herbert, Texas A&M University<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Texas A&M University is a flagship university with the largest research expenditure in the United States, having crossed over $1 billion in research funding this year. The university is committed to providing its students with a top-quality education that delivers job security to students in a highly competitive market. To achieve this goal, the university looked to mobilize its systems, tools, and expertise in the education industry by developing an intelligent organization and evaluation program that is purposefully optimized to ensure the best learning experience that converts to job security for future students. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In our recent webinar<\/a>, Dr. Bruce Herbert of Texas A&M highlighted the results of a pilot project which aimed to characterize the research careers of a small number of recent graduates of their PhD programs as an example of the type of analyses that could be done with bibliometric data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Bruce Herbert is Professor of Geology and currently serves as the Director of the Office of Scholarly Communications in the Sterling C. Evans library At Texas A&M. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Leveraging a purposeful tool to improve education programs offered by universities<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

As an intelligent organization, Texas A&M aimed to move past the simple metrics used to measure student success post-graduation. More specifically, the university wanted to develop complex stores of data to decipher the impact that the students\u2019 research has within the industry and on society at large, and using this data, evaluate the effectiveness of the university\u2019s teaching methods.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After investing in Dimensions, Texas A&M University gained the ability to collect and analyze data to track the success of their PhD students while enrolled at the university and post-graduation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Based on the data provided by Dimensions, the university can evaluate its research and educational programs and, using actionable insights, and optimize its teaching methods to improve graduate programs and outcomes. This will help the university achieve its overall goal of ensuring maximum impact in the students\u2019 career trajectory, within the industry that these students work in, and to society at large. Dr. Bruce Herbert said: \u201cBuilding a successful program is challenging – especially as the field of research and employment changes. Dimensions provides a perfect blend of insights that can be leveraged to develop the perfect course.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cWith Dimensions, Texas A&M University is able to quickly view and analyze trends to assess education programs and improve those programs going forward.\u201d<\/h2>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Improving educational programs by studying the success of PhD students while at university and post-graduation<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The aim of the pilot study performed by Bruce and his team was to evaluate the long-term effectiveness of the educational process and optimize the PhD programs offered by Texas A&M University by using a tool that would allow the university to build an intelligent platform reliably.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The following questions were addressed:<\/p>\n\n\n\n