Hannah Gascho Rempel is Graduate Student Services Coordinator in the Oregon State University Libraries at Oregon State University; e-mail: [email protected]. © Hannah Gascho Rempel This article discusses findings from a longitudinal research study that examined the way graduate students carry out the literature review and how they were impacted by attending a library literature revi...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine mentoring relationships involving minority graduate students in the USA. Design/methodology/approach – The authors take a multifaceted approach to providing strategies to improve the opportunities of minority students to acquire mentors by directing attention to institutional practices, faculty development, and the behaviors of students themselv...

introduction : students’ satisfaction of their supervisor is very important in the process of writing a thesis; while satisfaction is present, favorable outcomes could be expected. this study compared graduate students’ satisfaction of their supervisors from various departments. materials and methods: in this descriptive cross-sectional study conducted in 2013, 90 graduate students who had ente...

the objective of this research is to consider the ramin agriculture and natural resources university graduate students' viewpoint as regards challenges and obstacles of higher education in training entrepreneurship oriented graduates. the present research was carried out in the general framework of a survey study with the population being taken from among the ramin agriculture and natural ...

Introduction:The present study aimed to compare self-assessment forms of coursework taught in the school of public health at undergraduate, graduate, and postgraduate levels and students’ evaluation of the performance of the faculty members at these levels.Methods: The subjects in this cross-sectional study were the faculty members and students of the School of Public Health and Nutrition, Shir...

This article discusses the preferences, habits, and needs of graduate students as they relate to spaces for research and study. The findings are based on a large-scale ethnographic study of graduate students at Florida State University conducted between 2010 and 2013. Using a variety of ethnographic methods, researchers found that graduate students have diverse needs and unequal access to appro...

introduction. with constant changes in health care it is imperative that nursing education programs themselves act as agents of change. nursing education has the responsibility to produce nursing professionals and expert practitioners to shape the nursing practice not merely respond to changes in the practice environment. it must prepare nurses who can participate as full partners in health car...

Graduate thesis is an important form to assess students’ comprehensive ability. But the questionnaires carried among 36 supervisors and 167 students in the School of Foreign Languages of University of Jinan showed that a number of problems existed in the process and result of thesis writing. The discrepancies in teachers’ and students’ beliefs and the problems in the graduate thesis writing cou...

Although expectations for graduate students’ writing abilities are high, their actual writing skills are often subpar (Cuthbert & Spark, 2008; Singleton-Jackson, Lumsden, & Newson, 2009), even though academic writing is considered integral to graduate education and necessary for career preparedness (e.g., Mullen, 2006; Stevens, 2005). Today’s scholars in any field must be prepared to communicat...