Includes bibliographical references and index.

Changing our thinking about assessment at the doctoral level / Nancy A. Borkowski -- The challenges of doctoral program assessment: lessons from the Carnegie Initiative on the Doctorate / Chris M. Golde ... [et al.] -- Using an alignment model as a framework in the assessment of doctoral programs / Donald J. Wulff and Maresi Nerad -- Paths and perceptions: assessing doctoral education using career path analysis / Rebecca Aanerud ... [et al.] -- Using the assessment process to improve doctoral programs / Kelly Funk and Karen L. Klomparens -- Making the implicit explicit: faculty's performance expectations for the dissertation / Barbara E. Lovitts -- Doctoral students' perspectives on the dissertation / Jeannie Brown Leonard -- Portfolios in doctoral education / Thomas Cyr and Rodney Muth -- Recasting doctoral education in an outcomes-based framework / Mary Huba, John Schuh, and Mack Shelley.