Faculty Uses of Doctoral Training: Consideration of a Technique for the Differentiation of Scholarly Effort from Research Activity

The purposes of this study are: (1) to differentiate scholarly effort from research activity, and (2) to test the notion that publications are a discrete measure of scholarly performance. Validity was established for 71 scholarly activities apart from publications; these were classified into two domains: the external- disciplinary colleague (EDC) and the institutional local-community (ILC). A mailed survey of a sample of PhD recipients in chemistry and psychology at 44 liberal arts colleges--Selectivity I yielded a 63% useable return on 186 respondents. High and low publishers (career and current) were compared on both EDC and ILC Domain performance. Findings were that high publishers (career and current) have higher levels of performance in both Domains than do low publishers (career and current).