Description |
xv, 150 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
Series |
Evaluations and Investigations Program report ; 99/10 |
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Evaluations and Investigations Program report ; 99/10
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Summary |
The Graduate Careers Council of Australia proposed in 1996 that a Postgraduate Research Experience Questionnaire be developed. After consultations with focus groups and an advisory committee comprising the GCCA's Survey Management Group and representation from the tertiary sector, a list of items to be included in a questionnaire were developed. Two lists of items were developed with slightly different wordings so as to test the appropriateness of both an agree/disagree and a satisfied/unsatisfied scale. The aspects of the research experience examined in these draft questionnaires included: supervision; the thesis examination process; issues about student goals and expectations; faculty/department ethos and intellectual climate issues; infrastructure issues; and skills development issues. All Australian institutes of higher education were invited to participate in the pilot survey. Twenty-eight universities participated, involving some 2336 postgraduate research students. The Australian Council for Educational Research was commissioned to analyse the data obtained from the pilot survey and to prepare a report on its suitability as an instrument |
Analysis |
Electronic resource |
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Higher education |
Notes |
DETYA no. 6469.HERC00A |
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Department of Education, Training and Youth Affairs, Higher Education Division, Evaluations and Investigations Program |
Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 149-150 |
Notes |
Also available online via the World Wide Web |
Subject |
Graduate students -- Employment -- Australia.
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Graduate students -- Australia -- Statistics.
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Student evaluation of curriculum -- Australia.
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Genre/Form |
Statistics.
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Author |
Australia. Department of Education, Training, and Youth Affairs. Evaluations and Investigations Programme
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Australian Council for Educational Research.
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ISBN |
0642433372 |
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0642433380 (Online version) |
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