'It's a PhD, not a Nobel Prize': How experienced examiners assess research theses

By G. Mullins, Margaret Kiley. 2002

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Subfields: Education, General Health Professions, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

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Threshold concepts in research education and evidence of threshold crossing (2009, background): “(Hum07) In the research on examination of theses (Kiley, 2004; Kiley & Mullins, 2004; Lovitts, 2007; Mullins & Kiley, 2002; Winter, Griffiths, & Green, 2000) examiners frequently commented on ‘rigour and discipline’ as it applied to analysis for example, ‘the need to be systematic and rigorous’ or…”
Identifying threshold concepts and proposing strategies to support doctoral candidates (2009, background): “It appears from research on the examination of theses (Bourke, Hattie, & Anderson, 2004 ; Kiley & Mullins, 2004 , 2006 ; Lovitts, 2007 ; Mullins & Kiley, 2002 ) that it is not uncommon for candidates to complete and submit their dissertation without having crossed this threshold.”
Supervision of supervisors: on developing supervision in postgraduate education (2007, background): “On the whole, little research has been done on the processes involved in the supervising situation in Swedish postgraduate education as well as other industrialized countries (Jensen et al., 1991; Heath, 2002; Mullins & Kiley, 2002; Grant, 2003; Delamont et al., 2004).”
Being a good course‐taker is not enough: a theoretical perspective on the transition to independent research (2005, background): “If graduate faculty’s implicit standards for judging dissertations could be made explicit, they could be used to help guide students to higher levels of performance (see Lovitts, 2002, for preliminary work in this area; and see also Simpkins, 1987; Johnston, 1997; Delamont et al., 2000; Anderson, 20”