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Zhang, Qing; Wang, Jingmin; Ji, Ruihong; Huang, Tairan – Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice, 2020
Postgraduate education in China bears the dual mission of "high-end talent supply" and "scientific and technological innovation" as delegated by the Ministry of Education of China (2017). Improve the quality of postgraduate student training and management is essential for Chinese universities to meet this requirement. This…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Scientific Literacy, Self Efficacy, Research Training
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Cross, Anne; Eckberg, Deborah A. – Journal of Public Scholarship in Higher Education, 2015
This article describes a public scholarship project in which two faculty members worked together to integrate service-learning and research into multiple courses to benefit a single community partner. The project linked undergraduate students, graduate students, and faculty in a broad-based research endeavor that contributed to the survival and…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Cooperative Programs, Community Surveys, Research Projects
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Blaj-Ward, Lia – Higher Education Research and Development, 2011
The traditional "lone scholar" view of an Arts and Humanities doctoral student sits uneasily with the skills-based discourse underpinning policies aimed at enhancing researcher development and employability. This paper reports on a case study of a research training programme for doctoral students in the Arts and Humanities at a UK…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Educational Principles, College Instruction
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Baltes, Beate; Hoffman-Kipp, Peter; Lynn, Laura; Weltzer-Ward, Lisa – Contemporary Issues in Education Research, 2010
This study will explore student skill development and research self-efficacy as related to online doctoral students' first core research course experience. Findings from this study will be used to inform instructors in effective ways to support doctoral students during their early research experiences. This support will ensure that online graduate…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Research Skills, Graduate Students, Doctoral Programs
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Weiland, Steven – Teachers College Record, 2008
Background: Recent research on the preparation of graduate students in education for research has focused on general matters of epistemology, curriculum, and teaching. What should researchers know, how should research courses be designed, and what instructional approaches are most effective? Purpose: This article addresses the problem of the…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Mentors, Research Methodology, Educational Researchers
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Chu, Samuel Kai-Wah; Law, Nancy – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2007
This paper reports on a study of the development of information searching expertise by 12 postgraduate research students. Six of the students were studying education, and six were studying engineering. The paper focuses on the students' perception of the importance of searching skills and the growth of their knowledge with these skills as they…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Engineering, Research Skills, Information Retrieval