An Overview of Effective Postgraduate Supervision Style Based on Assessment and Supervisory Model
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https://doi.org/10.11113/jt.v74.4558Keywords:
Supervision concept, research, postgraduate developmentAbstract
Research process involves personal and professional relationship between students and supervisors. Successful research can be achieved if sustainable supervisor-student relationship is attained along the research journey. It is supervisors’ role to challenge and extend their students abilities in all areas to ensure their success in research timely. In this case, students’ abilities or progress must be assessed and evaluated. Evaluation and assessment is thus very important for any research and educational process. This paper overview the use of different evaluation as well as assessment systems for postgraduate supervision. Different methods of supervision are also briefly overviewed. Group supervision is probably to be most reliable model practiced by several institutions to conduct research students due to increasing numbers or students as well as demanding from academic environment hold by supervisor including administration commitments.
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