Publication detail

What Students Want: A Study on the Role of Supervisor of Final Works in Computing Education

BEDNAŘÍK, R. HEROUT, A.

Original Title

What Students Want: A Study on the Role of Supervisor of Final Works in Computing Education

Type

article in a collection out of WoS and Scopus

Language

English

Original Abstract

At two European universities providing technical and general computing education, we conducted a survey of undergraduate and graduate student experiences with final thesis work. We focused on the needs of students, role of their supervisor, and perception of institutional scaffolding. Learning style as a background variable was measured using the Need for Cognition instrument. From a sample of 44 responses we draw conclusions that inform computing educators about the wished-for approaches and support for final thesis work that seem necessary from the student point-of-view. These include the highlighted need for expert advice, time management issues and significant correlations between the required expert support and need for cognition.

Keywords

MSc. & BSc. Final Thesis, Need for Cognition, Thesis Supervisor, Supervision

Authors

BEDNAŘÍK, R.; HEROUT, A.

RIV year

2012

Released

20. 10. 2012

Publisher

Association for Computing Machinery

Location

New York

ISBN

978-1-4503-1795-5

Book

Proceedings of the 12th Koli Calling International Conference on Computing Education Research

Pages from

118

Pages to

125

Pages count

8

BibTex

@inproceedings{BUT97055,
  author="Roman {Bednařík} and Adam {Herout}",
  title="What Students Want: A Study on the Role of Supervisor of Final Works in Computing Education",
  booktitle="Proceedings of the 12th Koli Calling International Conference on Computing Education Research",
  year="2012",
  pages="118--125",
  publisher="Association for Computing Machinery",
  address="New York",
  isbn="978-1-4503-1795-5"
}