Barbara E. Lovitts

Leaving the Ivory Tower: The Causes and Consequences of Departure from Doctoral Study

Donald G. Gregory, Barbara E. Lovitts · Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews · 2003 · 1K citations

Preface Chapter 2, Student Retention, Humanities +14

Being a good course‐taker is not enough: a theoretical perspective on the transition to independent research

Barbara E. Lovitts · Studies in Higher Education · 2005 · 394 citations

Performance Studies, Student Learning, Learning Psychology +14

The Hidden Crisis in Graduate Education: Attrition from Ph.D. Programs

Barbara E. Lovitts, Cary Nelson · Academe · 2000 · 336 citations

Student Retention, Postsecondary Education, Hidden Crisis +7

The Transition to Independent Research: Who Makes It, Who Doesn't, and Why

Barbara E. Lovitts · The Journal of Higher Education · 2008 · 176 citations

Educational Psychology, Education, Research Ethics +24

Making the implicit explicit : creating performance expectations for the dissertation

Barbara E. Lovitts · 2007 · 176 citations

Educational Psychology, Education, Performance Measurement +22