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impactinged-163	Capello, Sarah; Gyimah-Concepcion, Mellissa; Billimack, Victoria Vandover	An Unexpected Affordance of Program Design for Dissertation Writing During COVID-19: The Embedded Dissertation	2021	5	.pdf	application/pdf	4827	207	44	While recent research estimates a 40-60% attrition rate for students in traditional doctoral programs (Cassuto, 2013; Council of Graduate Schools, 2012; Rockinson-Szapkiw et al., 2019), some studies have found attrition rates of up to 70% for EdD students (Bowen & Rudenstine, 1992; Nettles & Millett, 2006), and there is evidence that online doctoral programs have even higher attrition rates (Bawa, 2016). In addition to describing the embedded dissertation, in this paper we also explore how the embedded dissertation design resulted in unanticipated affordances for EdD students at the dissertation writing stage (rather than the data collection or data analysis stages) and for the faculty teaching the dissertation writing courses during the COVID-19 pandemic, primarily because this is the stage students and faculty were in when the pandemic struck.	cache/impactinged-163.pdf	txt/impactinged-163.txt