Title :
A practical guide for novice supervisors of master´s thesis
Author :
Trivino, Alicia ; Martin, Sebastian
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., Univ. of Malaga, Malaga, Spain
Abstract :
The objective of this work in progress is to present and to get feedback from the community on a guide for supervising Master´s Thesis. The target audience are the novice supervisors of Master Thesis, who demand a practical guide about how to proceed efficiently when assigning the tasks to the student and when performing his/her own tasks. The proposed guide consists of a set of activities that are easy to implement. The proposed activities are oriented to the development of the Master Thesis itself and the application of a quality assurance process on it. In addition to some modern learning theories, the definition of the activities is supported by a review of the literature, the experience of the authors and a survey performed on supervisors and students. The theoretical basis is implicitly included in the activities so that the application of the modern learning theories is straightforward.
Keywords :
further education; quality assurance; further education; master thesis; modern learning theories; novice supervisors; quality assurance process; target audience; Collaborative work; Educational institutions; Electronic mail; Planning; Psychology; Quality assurance; Teaching and learning experiences; experimental social psychology; learning theories; motivation and persistence;
Conference_Titel :
Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE), 2014 IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/FIE.2014.7044186