An Exploratory Study of the Supervision of Ph.D./Research Students' Theses

Autor/in	Vilkinas, Tricia
Titel	An Exploratory Study of the Supervision of Ph.D./Research Students' Theses
Quelle	In: Innovative Higher Education, 32 (2008) 5, S.297-311 (15 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0742-5627
DOI	10.1007/s10755-007-9057-5
Schlagwörter	Supervision; Theses; Content Analysis; Faculty; Doctoral Dissertations; College Faculty; Interviews + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? These; Inhaltsanalyse; Academic Staff; Lehrkörper; Doctoral dissertation; Doctoral thesis; Doctoral theses; Dissertationsschrift; Fakultät; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik
Abstract	Twenty-five faculty members were interviewed to determine how they supervised their Ph.D. students' thesis preparation. A content analysis of the interview data indicated that the majority of them were task-focused. They supported their students intellectually, emotionally, and structurally. Some academics considered their students as colleagues, and a few developed research teams. Watching the students grow and develop and doing research with them as colleagues were the most enjoyable aspects of the supervision process. The integrated competing values framework (ICVF) was used to illustrate how most of the study participants were task-focused and were not able to deliver paradoxical roles; nor were they able to reflect on their supervisory capabilities and learn from those reflections. (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10