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Enhancing Dissertation Guidance: Strategies to Support Students and Staff

This piece explores effective strategies for improving dissertation guidance for both students and staff at universities. It emphasizes the importance of clear guidelines, consulting students, and removing problematic staff as key components of a supportive dissertation process. The discussion also highlights the use of technology to monitor student progress and prevent disengagement, such as online submissions and improved tracking systems. By consolidating skill training and clarifying roles, institutions can foster a better environment for dissertation success.

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Enhancing Dissertation Guidance: Strategies to Support Students and Staff

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  1. Teaching the dissertation – is there a recipe? Christine Harlen & Mette Wiggen POLIS University of Leeds LTC8

  2. What are the guidelines? What is a dissertation?

  3. The student experience

  4. Staff experience

  5. Yes we can !

  6. Keeping Students on Course Ilkerenderr, ‘Kathmandu , Nepal,Himalayas,Everest, http://www.flickr.com, Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC BY 2.0)

  7. Need to Avoid Getting Meaner as Things Get Leaner Photographer: Matt Dinnery, Fund Our Future: Stop the Cuts – National Demonstration, http://www.flickr.com, Creative Commons Licence

  8. Inspire Good Behaviour: Stress that it is the Norm Picture: Jsmith, Study, Flickr.com, Generic Non-Derivative Creative Commons License 2.0

  9. Keeping Students on Track • Have things laid out clearly from end of yr 2. • Look at successful models • Consult students. • Remove truly problematic staff from dissertation. • Revamp may take years.

  10. Improve Guidance to Students and Staff • Consolidated skills training. • Clarified roles. • Matched staff to student topics. • Including study abroad students in the loop.

  11. Technology Can Improve Tracking and Help Prevent ‘Lost’ Students • On-line submission (VLE Test, Survey Gizmo) • Allocation using excel. • N: drive. • Mail-merged info. • Improved monitoring.

  12. Warning Signs: Who Gets Lost • No topic at start • Redoing. • Low year 2 average.

  13. Technology Does Not Completely Solve the Numbers Problem

  14. Onward and Upward

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