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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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《International Journal of Educational Research》2004,41(2):98-120
There has been a slow but steady accretion of findings on doctoral assessment and examination processes over the past decade and a half. The study of Australian PhD examination reported here draws on the written reports on 301 theses across all discipline areas. Text categories identified in the reports are linked to other data including the recommendation examiners give the thesis and the final report of the committee. The assessment discourse of examiners is explored in depth with reference to high- and low-quality theses. The questions addressed are: (1) What qualities, attributes and characteristics of the thesis are examiners emphasising in their reports? (2) What form does their evaluative comment take? (3) What can the reports indicate about the relative strengths and weaknesses of a thesis and the standards examiners apply in determining a recommendation? and (4) what areas of report content and types of comment most clearly differentiate between the high-and low-quality theses? While it was evident in the reports that examiners weigh and balance many features of the thesis against their expectations to arrive at a recommendation, there were three general criteria that distinguished each of high-quality low-quality theses. 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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《Critical Studies in Education》2013,54(1):89-131
Abstract It is rare for a PhD candidate who submits a thesis for examination to fail outright. If a thesis exhibits significant flaws the candidate may be required to make major revisions and re‐submit the work for re‐examination. The written comments of examiners before and after resubmission can provide important insights into the process of examination and the qualities examiners identify in a marginal thesis. Drawing on 101 of the most recent, completed theses across fields in one Australian university, this article investigates the differences in examiner comment on the qualities of theses by the same candidates before and after major revision and re‐submission (N = 6), and between these theses and those that were ‘passed’ at the first examination (N=95). Critical comments about the literature review and the degree to which the examiner moved into a supervisory role were found to be strong indicators of theses at the margin’. 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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Thashmee Karunaratne Henrik Hansson Naghmeh Aghaee 《Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice》2019,26(2):184-201
Improving the quality of Bachelor’s and Master’s theses while at the same time increasing the number of theses without expanding the existing resources proportionately is a huge challenge faced by higher educational institutions. The aim of this study is to investigate the effect of multiple change processes on Bachelors and Masters level thesis work in a selected higher educational institution. The following research questions were studied: (1) How has the thesis quality changed? (2) How has the number of completed theses changed? and, (3) How has the ratio of completed theses per supervisor changed? The change processes were introduced into the thesis process in the Department of Computer and Systems Sciences (DSV), Stockholm University during 2008–2014. The results show that the quality and the number of completed theses have significantly increased. The multiple change processes including a purpose built ICT system named SciPro, which was introduced and improved incrementally during 2010–2014 are discussed and evaluated in relation to these results. 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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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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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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《International Journal of Educational Research》2004,41(2):136-162
The merger of art schools into academic institutions and the consequent proliferation of higher degree courses in the visual arts has created pressure for these courses to justify that their research content ‘measures up’ to more traditional research practices.This study aimed to identify the parameters for PhD examination and research practices in the field of Fine Art through interviews with Fine Art examiners as well as an analysis of written PhD examination reports. A comparison of PhD examination reports across disciplines revealed that there were similarities as well as some significant differences between the type of feedback provided by Fine Art examiners and feedback by examiners from other disciplines. Interviews with 15 Fine Art examiners from 11 Australian institutions provided information about the expectations, standards and models of evaluation in the Fine Art field as well as how examiners perceive their role and what constraints are evident in current examination processes. 相似文献
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车娇 《湖南广播电视大学学报》2005,(1):1-3
毕业论是教学过程中不可代替的一环。近年来，毕业论质量不高、抄袭严重、论结构和内容不理想的情况日趋严重。因此，探讨在现代远程开放教育条件下，怎样指导毕业论，对毕业论质量实行监控，具有重要的现实意义。 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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《International Journal of Educational Research》2004,41(2):121-135
Earlier research by Mullins and Kiley (2002) [Studies in higher education, 27(4), 369–386] reported on the processes that experienced examiners go through when they assess research theses. Since that study two further studies have been undertaken, interviews with novice Australian examiners, reported here, and the analysis of approximately 100 examiners’ reports (Kiley, 2004). These studies now allow us to address the comment made by many of the experienced examiners who were interviewed that it was not wise to send a research thesis, particularly one which is not strong, to inexperienced examiners. We also wanted to determine the extent to which less experienced examiners follow the same processes and use the same criteria as their more experienced colleagues, and whether there was any basis for the experienced examiners’ comments. This paper draws particularly on the results of the interviews with 26 examiners and supervisors which indicated that by comparison with experienced examiners, less experienced examiners paid more attention to institutional criteria and the summative dimension of assessment; were unsure of the boundary conditions relating to very good or poor theses; and were more likely to refer back to their own postgraduate experience when reflecting on their approach to both supervision and examination. 相似文献
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Wilfred Carr 《Educational Action Research》2013,21(3):427-436
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吴俊 《忻州师范学院学报》2011,27(4):122-124
毕业论文是衡量毕业生学习质量的重要指标之一,故毕业论文的质量受到社会各界广泛的关注。但近年来毕业论文的质量却存在不少问题,因此,提高毕业论文的质量显得尤为迫切。目前,关于英语本科毕业论文,学术界主要从选题、论文存在的语法错误及其消除等进行研究。有鉴于此,文章探讨了提高英语专业本科毕业论文质量的有效途径,也就是如何开设英语本科专业毕业论文写作课,包括教材的选定、教学内容的安排、教学方法的采用、考核方式的选择等。 相似文献
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高校学报“反映本校”“服务本校”的内向性办刊宗旨，使其用稿格局定位于：“以内稿为主，少登或尽量不登外稿”．然而，在社会主义市场经济体制下，学报面临着激烈的竞争，核心期刊以及学术界对权威检索机构的认同，也使高校学报面临着巨大的压力．在如此严峻的情势下，高校学报要求生存、谋发展，必须打破保守封闭的传统用稿格局，广辟稿源，不分内外，以质选稿，这样才能提高其学术质量，增强其竞争力．目前，国际国内形势也为学报建立开放的办刊体系提供了可能． 相似文献
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This study examined data relating to 125 part‐time masters candidates in education. In particular, the study considered various structural aspects of candidature and examiners’ concerns regarding the theses submitted by these candidates. Some of the structural components considered were the choice of thesis weighting in the degree, completion time, suspension and extension of candidature, course work grades, agreement between examiners and the level of honours awarded. An analysis of thesis examiners’ reports revealed a diversity in the nature of criticism made. Criticism related to such things as the review of literature, writing style, typographical and spelling errors, conclusions reached and the theoretical framework used. In many instances the nature of examiners’ criticism raised questions as to the role that thesis supervisors are expected to perform. 相似文献
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针对近几年来学院计算机专业毕业设计论文中存在的问题,特别是教师自身的实践水平和能力现状,提出了信息技术教师毕业设计论文综合实践指导素质的概念,详细阐述了此概念的内涵和外延,进一步就其外延所包括的两个方面:项目开发的指导素质、论文撰写的指导素质进行深入探讨,并列举实例说明提升教师的综合实践指导素质在毕业设计论文指导中的重要性和作用.最后提出了计算机专业毕业设计论文工作的几点设想,以其能改进和提高计算机专业毕业设计论文管理工作的科学性和规范性. 相似文献
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康玲 《福建教育学院学报》2010,11(5):18-21
文章以湖北省襄樊学院2007—2009年旅游管理专业学士学位论文为研究样本,通过对样本论文选题的统计研究,分析该校旅游管理专业学士论文选题存在的问题,并针对问题提出从选题内容、类型、方法、语法规范等方面相应的对策和建议,希望能有助于提高毕业论文质量。 相似文献