What is the most effective postgraduate student supervision management system?

01 January 1970 4 4K Report

Hi all,

I would like to find out which systems do most researchers use to manage and effectively review their students' outputs (i.e. proposals, chapters and manuscripts). How does one effectively allocate and track your time to different student projects? Regarding reviewing of documents, I know many use "track changes" in Word, some do comments in a PDF viewer, some still prefer a printout and write comments in pencel. Which system is the most effective and used by the majority?

Thanks,

Carel

Bekzod Bekchanov Popular answer

http://elar.uspu.ru/bitstream/uspu/1840/1/povr-2014-12-06.pdf

I hope You will find your answers here.

Bekzod Bekchanov

http://elar.uspu.ru/bitstream/uspu/1840/1/povr-2014-12-06.pdf

I hope You will find your answers here.

Carel B. Oosthuizen

Thank you for sharing Bekzod.

Matthew Fisher

Hi Carel, while I havent supervised any students I have my own preference for feedback based on supervisors.

I prefer verbal discussions and presentations and one-on-one or group meetings on a regular basis, with brainstorming and bouncing ideas off of one another being the most advantageous. The Word change-tracking seems very limited for me, especially when the changes needed are more complex than simple grammar, especially when trading documents via email things get very confusing as to the document history. If it was in a shared folder maybe this would be better.

Regardless of method I think having regular meetings or feedback is a must, probably more than once a week if the project is complex and a lot of challenges present themselves. For routine work, once a week, every two weeks or a month should be adequate. That being said if the quality of the feedback is poor it doesnt matter how many meetings are had.

I hope you find some good strategies, Im also interested to know about them.

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