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What Students Want: A Study on the Role of Supervisor of Final Works in Computing Education
Herout Adam, prof. Ing., Ph.D., DIFS (FIT), DCGM (FIT)
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.
MSc. & BSc. Final Thesis, Need for Cognition, Thesis Supervisor, Supervision
@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"
}