Postgraduate supervision and academic support: students' perceptions
By A. Lessing, S. Schulze. 2002
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Postgraduate supervision in South Africa currently takes place in the context of university transformation, increasing numbers of disadvantaged students and appeals for improved completion rates. Thus there is concern for quality. Among others, quality is determined by the extent to which students’ expectations are met. Data about students’ perceptions of supervision provides important information about their expectations and if these are satisfied. Survey research was employed to determine distance education students’ perceptions of their postgraduate supervision in the Faculty of Education, University of South Africa. Students had to rate the supervision they were given regarding the stated outcomes of these degrees. Their judgments of individual styles of supervision were also determined. Finally, students had to describe the most rewarding or frustrating aspects of their studies and what they would recommend regarding postgraduate supervision. The article concludes with suggestions to enhance the quality of supervision. These include the training of supervisors.
Subfields: Education, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
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- Improving the Development of Postgraduates' Research and Supervision (2011, background): “Another approach to this area of concern would be to question the current graduate students themselves, as proposed by Lessing and Schulze (2002), Lin and Cranton (2005) and McAlpine and Norton (2006).”
- Views on the combination of quantitative and qualitative research approaches (2003, methodology): “In an example of this model, a predominantly quantitative approach was followed to determine distance education students' perceptions of their postgraduate supervision in the Faculty of Education at Unisa ( Lessing & Schulze 2002 ) The investigation concluded with a small qualitative component.”