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Sharon Sharmini Rachel Spronken-Smith Clinton Golding Tony Harland 《Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education》2015,40(1):89-102
In this article we explore how examiners assess a thesis that includes published work. An online survey was used to gather data on approaches to assessing publication-based theses (PBTs). The respondents were 62 supervisors who had experience examining PBTs across a range of disciplines at a research-intensive university in New Zealand. Nearly half of the respondents had examined ‘hybrid’ theses with papers inserted as chapters, 41% had examined theses with publications appended and 14% had examined PhDs by publication (i.e. papers alone). Twenty-nine per cent of examiners used their own extended set of criteria to assess PBTs, 48% found them easier to assess but 26% wanted more guidance. Our analysis also indicated that 86% of the examiners were highly influenced by publications in top-ranked journals and international peer-reviewed journals. Among the concerns of the examiners was the intellectual input of the candidate in any multi-authored publication, as well as the coherence of the thesis. We recommend the need for clearer guidelines for doctoral candidates, supervisors and examiners managing PBTs. 相似文献
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Svein Kyvik 《Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education》2014,39(2):140-153
This article focuses on the assessment procedures of Norwegian PhD theses as viewed by external members of evaluation committees from three countries with different examination systems; the USA, the UK and Sweden. Their viewpoints give useful information not only on the pros and cons with the Norwegian system, but also on the strengths and weaknesses of their own national assessment systems. Various procedures of the four national PhD assessment systems are compared: the composition of the evaluation committee, the status of the thesis as published work, the pre-examination assessment, and the examination and defence. 相似文献
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完善工程硕士培养过程 确保培养质量 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
笔者对目前工程硕士培养中存在的问题进行分析和比较，提出确保工程硕士培养质量的具体办法，使工程硕士的培养满足国民经济建设上战场的需要。 相似文献
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Clinton Golding Sharon Sharmini Ayelet Lazarovitch 《Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education》2014,39(5):563-576
Although many articles have been written about thesis assessment, none provide a comprehensive, general picture of what examiners do as they assess a thesis. To synthesise this diverse literature, we reviewed 30 articles, triangulated their conclusions and identified 11 examiner practices. Thesis examiners tend to be broadly consistent in their practices and recommendations; they expect and want a thesis to pass, but first impressions are also very important. They read with academic expectations and the expectations of a normal reader. Like any reader, thesis examiners get annoyed and distracted by presentation errors, and they want to read a work that is a coherent whole. As academic readers, examiners favour a thesis with a convincing approach that engages with the literature and the findings, but they require a thesis to be publishable research. Finally, examiners give not only a final evaluation of a thesis, but also instruction and advice to improve the thesis and further publications and research. We hope that these generalisations will demystify the often secret process of assessing a thesis, and reassure, guide and encourage students as they write their theses. 相似文献
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Denise Jackson 《高等教育研究与发展》2013,32(3):355-368
There is increasing impetus for higher-degree-by-research students to publish during candidature. Research performance, including higher degree completions and publication output, commonly determines university funding, and doctorates with publishing experience are better positioned for a career in softening academic labour markets. The PhD by Publication provides a pathway for candidates to foster and demonstrate their publishing capabilities. It also provides existing academics a means of achieving doctoral status while managing the ‘publish or perish’ milieu endemic to their work. This paper clarifies the precise nature and significance of the PhD by Publication pathway in the Australian context and discusses the associated benefits and problems, enriched by personal experience. It summarises factors pertinent to assessing the pathway's suitability. The review of current policy suggests institutional guidelines in universities nationwide are inadequate for producing theses of comparable quality to conventional dissertations and capitalising on the pathway's significant benefits. 相似文献
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基于文献综述和实际指导经验,设计和开展了问卷调查。结果显示:非全日制研究生培养的困难按严重程度排序为就业政策不平等、社会认可度不高、学习成本高等,论文写作面临的困难依次为理论深度欠缺、易产生高重复率、选题难等。针对这些困难的相应管理措施也进行了调查,按认可程度排序为加强宣传、消除就业忧虑、提升质量意识、明确导师负责制、开题严格把关等。 相似文献
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Previous research has demonstrated that the development and communication of explicit marking criteria have resulted in improved grades for students. This improvement in performance has only been reported for coursework assignments. Therefore, it was the purpose of this study to investigate the impact of providing explicit marking criteria, alongside practice with the criteria, on student examination grades. Two cohorts attending their second year on a sport science degree were used. The first cohort served as a control group and the second cohort as an experimental group. The control group sat the examination without any prior knowledge of the marking criteria, and the experimental group was given a marksheet before the examination that contained the marking criteria. There was a significant difference (p < 0.001) between the examination grades of the experimental and control group. The mean examination grades achieved were 55.4% and 36.9% for the experimental and control group, respectively. Subsequent focus groups revealed that the experimental group considered that they were much better prepared and equipped to revise for the examination, and the marksheet encouraged self‐reflection on their progress. The experimental group reported that they felt they had more control over preparation for the examination and higher levels of confidence in taking the examination. 相似文献
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Siddhi Pittayachawan Peter Macauley Terry Evans 《Journal of Higher Education Policy & Management》2016,38(5):562-575
This article reports how statistical analyses of PhD thesis records can reveal future research capacities for disciplines beyond their primary fields. The previous research showed that most theses contributed to and/or used methodologies from more than one discipline. In Australia, there was a concern for declining mathematical teaching and research capacity. We decided to investigate the ‘hidden’ mathematics research capacity in PhDs outside of mathematics. Australian PhD records were re-coded with up to three fields. Records with mathematics as one of their codes were selected and analysed for their relationships to disciplines in their other codes. Triple-coding revealed ‘hidden’ mathematical research capacity that had previously been single-coded in another field had mathematics as one of their subsequent fields. Our findings have implications for policy and planning for mathematics in Australia, and multiple coding of PhD theses records enables analyses for other disciplines to be undertaken to show their research capacities. 相似文献
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Universities increasingly expect students to publish during a PhD candidature because it benefits the candidate, supervisor, institution, and wider community. Here, we describe a method successfully used by early-career researchers including PhD candidates to undertake and publish literature reviews – a challenge for researchers new to a field. Our method allows researchers new to a field to systematically analyse existing academic literature to produce a structured quantitative summary of the field. This method is a more straightforward and systematic approach than the traditional ‘narrative method’ common to many student theses. When published, this type of review can also complement existing narrative reviews produced by experts in a field by quantitatively assessing the literature, including identifying research gaps. The method can also be used as the initial step for further analysis, including identifying suitable datasets for meta-analysis. Students report that the method is enabling and rewarding. 相似文献
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This article reports on a study of the quality assessment of doctoral dissertations, and asks whether examiner characteristics influence assessment of research quality in PhD dissertations. Utilising a multi-dimensional concept of quality of PhD dissertations, we look at differences in assessment of research quality, and particularly test whether prior relationship to supervisor, examiners’ assessment experience and the regional affiliation of examiners influence assessment, also controlling for academic fields and type of higher education institutions. The data are drawn from a survey to foreign members of thesis evaluation committees that served in the year 2010 at the Norwegian universities. The sample consisted of 1159 foreign committee members, representing a response rate of 79%. The results indicate that the regional affiliation and previous experience of committee members influence quality assessment significantly, but that the relationship to supervisor(s) was of little importance. 相似文献
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Michelle Share 《International Journal for Academic Development》2016,21(3):178-193
This study examined the viva experiences of 87 social science PhD graduates from three Irish higher education institutions through a questionnaire that assessed outcome, preparation, conduct and post-viva. The majority were awarded their PhD with minor corrections, considered their viva as a summative assessment, and emphasised its purpose as authentication, examination and defence. Most felt well prepared yet few had experienced a ‘mock viva’ or viva workshop. Even those with minor corrections identified aspects of the viva for improvement. The study recommends that academic development programmes should incorporate assessment literacy for PhD students and supervisors and the need for evaluation of graduates’ viva experiences. 相似文献
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当前我国专业学位硕士研究生教育正处于探索阶段,并已成为我国研究生教育的重要组成部分。从目前全日制专业学位硕士研究生的培养现状来看,主要存在重视理论知识传授,忽视实践能力培养,教材体系建设缺乏整体规划,学位论文缺乏应用价值等问题。因此,吸引优秀本科毕业生报考专业学位研究生,构建知识结构合理的网络化教材体系,制定科学的专业学位论文评价体系,提高导师的专业化水平等是全日制专业学位硕士研究生教育可持续发展的关键所在。 相似文献
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Marius Pretorius 《高等教育研究与发展》2017,36(4):823-837
With increased pressure to publish, academics are pursuing creative ways to achieve enhanced research outputs. One such process is the publication-based thesis (PBT) for both masters and PhD candidates, rather than monographs. While this process is not novel in the sciences, it has not been widely applied by economic and management schools, particularly in South Africa. Despite the apparently limited institutional guidelines and policies, some academics have pursued an article-based thesis writing process. Doing so has several consequences of special interest for supervisors and candidates. This research set out to identify the impediments to the PBT process, so as to guide future consideration by academics. This is an auto-ethnographic study by one senior academic with experience in both masters and PhD supervision, who has embarked on the PBT process purposively, and reflects on a deliberate choice to change from standard monograph thesis writing to the PBT approach. Member-checking interviews with 12 senior academics in management sciences (some supporting and others not supporting PBT) to some extent validated the generalizability of the liabilities expressed here as concerns. I conclude with a conceptual framework containing the experienced and envisaged realities of PBT writing. The aim of the framework is to assist and warn newcomers to the process with guidelines for considering the associated impediments. Five main liabilities that may ‘bind’ progress, covering 13 antecedents to consider, were identified. The findings led to improved understanding by contextualizing the issues underlying the PBT supervision process, giving structure and meaning to possible solutions to overcoming the liabilities. 相似文献
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提高大学生毕业设计(论文)的教学质量研究 总被引：3，自引：0，他引：3
依据目前国内外的大学生毕业设计(论文)教学现状,分析国内学生在毕业设计和毕业论文中存在的科研能力差、学生就业压力大、实验设备不足、对毕业设计(论文)重视不够等问题,借助于国外在毕业设计(论文)方面的先进经验,提出要明确学习目的、改革毕业实践教学环节和加强毕业设计(论文)过程的管理。 相似文献
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学位论文选题与研究方法的选择是考察硕士研究生学术能力的重要环节,分析近5年来的3914篇教育技术学硕士学位论文,以关键词知识图谱、研究方法类型分布等描述教育技术学硕士研究生的选题意趣和研究方法技能,发现我国大陆高校教育技术学硕士学位论文的选题虽然较为分散,但基本契合学术界的研究热点;跨学科选题渐增,但不同培养机构对教育技术学科定位的理解存在差异,导致偏\"技术\"或重\"教育\"的不同选题意趣;混合的方法不断涌现,但亦存在研究方法选择不合理、研究仅停留在经验总结的层面等问题。 相似文献
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Nebraska districts use different strategies for measuring student performance on the state's content standards. District assessments differ in type and technical quality. Six quality criteria were endorsed by the state. These criteria cover content and curricular validity, fairness, and appropriateness of score interpretations. District assessment portfolios document how well assessments meet these criteria. Districts receive ratings on how well their assessments meet each of the quality criteria and are given a rating from Unacceptable to Exemplary. This article presents these technical quality criteria and explains how they are (a) individually rated and (b) combined for the district's overall quality rating. 相似文献
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孔蕾 《临沂师范学院学报》2010,32(2):52-55
本科毕业论文是本科教育阶段中一项重要的工作,如何提高本科毕业论文质量是很多高校教育工作者一直关心的问题。在时英语专业本科毕业论文中存在的主要问题进行调查的基础上,针对存在的问题,在教学中采取了以培养学生创新意识和科研能力为主的改革措施。结果表明,培养创新意识和科研能力是提高英语专业本科毕业论文质量的有效途径。 相似文献
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Shuhua Chen 《Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education》2014,39(3):364-379
This paper explores how 11 Canadian doctoral candidates performed as researchers in the final doctoral oral examination in handling questions that they identified as ‘difficult to answer’. Drawing from communities of practice theory, the study views the defence as an examination in which a novice researcher (the doctoral candidate) demonstrates knowing to a group of experienced researchers (the defence committee) in order to be approved of the membership of a scholarly community. The doctoral candidate’s researcher identity is considered as composed of three aspects: thinking about oneself as, performing as and being thought of as a researcher. It was found that many (41%) of the questions were difficult because of the questioners’ different perspectives on the dissertation; in answering them, the candidates balanced knowing and not-knowing by navigating across research areas/fields, methodological and epistemological borders. All the defences were successful, which indicate that these candidates were all thought of as competent researchers; yet, only those who thought about themselves as novice researchers felt satisfied with their performance. 相似文献
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实践环节考核质量保障体系直接关系着自考人才培养的规格和质量,构建适应自学考试人才培养模式的实践类课程教学标准,规范过程考核和流程设计,实施教学过程监控、评价,建立客观、多维的教学监督与质量评价以及动态跟踪体系。 相似文献