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MATHEMATICS AND EDUCATION
Author(s) -
Mensenkamp L. E.
Publication year - 1918
Publication title -
school science and mathematics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.135
H-Index - 2
eISSN - 1949-8594
pISSN - 0036-6803
DOI - 10.1111/j.1949-8594.1918.tb03928.x
Subject(s) - citation , mathematics education , math education , computer science , library science , mathematics
The 29% and 13% are examples of what I call (respectively) “pipeline” and “trough” statistics. Relative to the “PhD pipeline,” a collection of tenured and tenure-track positions (e.g., positions in a math department) is like a trough. Periodically, the PhD pipeline feeds a few new PhDs into the trough, and periodically a few faculty members leak out, due to death or retirement. In general, the composition of the trough is slow to change.