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Reza Ahmadi; Hiwa Weisi – Studies in Higher Education, 2024
The increasing demands on faculty members and students to conduct research might result in domination in supervisor-student relations across cultural contexts. This study aimed to explore how students' research relationships with their supervisors are manifested within TEFL (Teaching English as a Foreign Language) postgraduate curriculum in Iran's…
Descriptors: Student Research, Student Experience, Foreign Countries, Supervisor Supervisee Relationship
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Khozaei Ravari, Zahra; Ul Islam, Qamar; Khozaei, Fatemeh; Choupan Zarvijani, Sara Betlem – Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education, 2023
Purpose: Developing graduate students' academic writing has been a major concern for many scholars over the past few years. Existing literature on the challenges of thesis writing has not focused on master's students in English language teaching (ELT). Data on the challenges have been mainly gathered from the theses and focused on the structure…
Descriptors: Masters Programs, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Hasrati, Mostafa – Asia Pacific Education Review, 2013
This article reports the results of a mixed methodology analysis of the assumptions of academic staff and Masters students in an Iranian university regarding various aspects of the assessment of the Masters degree thesis, including the main objective for writing the thesis, the role of the students, supervisors and advisors in writing the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Graduate Students, Masters Theses, College Faculty
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McGinty, Suzanne Claire; Koo, Yew Lie; Saeidi, Mahnaz – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2010
This paper presents preliminary findings from a research study in Australia, Malaysia and Iran on students' perceptions of the roles of supervisor and student in the production of their thesis and the contribution of their cultural knowledge to thesis development. The 360 respondents who answered an online survey were studying for their Master's…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Student Attitudes, Foreign Countries, Supervisors
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Hasrati, Mostafa; Hashemi, Reza – Quality in Higher Education, 2011
While research is abundant on quality assurance in higher education, very little has been done to study informal learning in general and its relation to quality assurance in particular. Reporting on a study of informal learning among PhD students in natural sciences in an Iranian university, this article is an attempt to address this issue.…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Informal Education, Learning Strategies, Doctoral Programs
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Hasrati, Mostafa – Studies in Higher Education, 2005
This article is part of a larger scale project on some aspects of the process of academic socialization of a group of Iranian Ph.D. students studying in five UK universities, particularly focusing on the relationship between these students and their supervisors. The study included eight engineering and five social sciences/humanities students, as…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Graduate Students, Doctoral Programs, Supervision