Supervising and examining research students
Topic: Formative assessment of the thesis
What strategies can you use during your students' research candidature to monitor and give feedback on the academic integrity of their work?
This topic is designed to help you improve:
- your understanding of issues encountered by research students in developing scholarly writing practices, and possible supervisory responses
- your skills in supporting your students to embed academic integrity into the production of their theses
In this topic, you can think about how you as a research supervisor would work to review and improve academic integrity with four different student writers.
Further reading on this topic:
Cryer, P. (n.d.). Educational resources for postgraduate research. Retrieved June 1, 2006 from http://www.postgrad_resources.btinternet.co.uk/index.htm
Short pertinent extracts from the author's 1997 book, Resolving Common Dilemmas in Supervision . London: SHRE / THES, on language and cultural issues and on suspected plagiarism and fraud.
McCullough, M., & Holmberg, M. (2005). Using the Google search engine to detect word-for-word plagiarism in Masters' theses: A preliminary study. College Student, 39(3), 435-442.
Of 210 Masters' theses from around the world searched for 10 minutes each, 27% showed potential plagiarism. Suggests a search method for supervisors to use.
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